Re: AMC engines with Studebaker influences????

[Wayne E LaMothe <superglider@xxxxxxxx>]

The original Gen 1 engines from AMC were from a design engineer who used
to be with Kaiser.  he brought the plans with him to AMC and when the
deal fell through with Packard for engines the designs from Kaiser were
used.  I believe the engineer did not want to relocate to South America
when Kaiser moved engine operations out of the US so he went to work for
AMC.  This is from memory but the general direction should be correct.

AMC was supposed to benefit from a second merger with packard and Stude
sometime around 1956 but that part of the deal never came forward since
the head of Packard did not like the new guy at AMC.  The original CEO of
AMC (Meyers?) had died and packard pulled out of the deal along with
Stude.  They lasted until about 63(?) before they lost out.

Wayne

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:02:21 -0600 Arfon Griffiths <ArfonRG@xxxxxxx>
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> Someone mentioned that they heard that AMC V8s were influenced by 
> Studebaker.  Any truth to that?  What did influence AMC in there 
> engine design?
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