Re: chevy v6 in wagoneer?

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" From: "L. D. Lyons" <ldlyons@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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" gotta Jeep question, was looking at an 85 waggoner today, The guy said
" it had a chevy V6 in it, and it came from the factory that way. During
" our conversation he mentioned it had something to do with GM getting
" designs frtom Jeep when they aquired AM General. If someone pout there
" knows any thing about this I would sure appreciate some info

the waggie never had any kind of v6 in it ever, gm or otherwise.  when
it appeared in '63, it had kaiser's own ohc 230 'tornado' inline,
inspired if not derived from the continental 226 flathead they used
previously.  that only lasted a few years before being replaced by the
amc 232 inline in '65.  after that, it was 232s and 258s until the end.

v8s were also mostly amc - the old rambler 327 '66-8, then when it ran
out a buick 350, then back to amc with 304s, 360s, and 401s when amc
bought kaiser in '71.

a gm corporate order mandated chevy sixes for everyone in '65, so
buick unloaded their 225 v6 - 3/4 of their 300, itself an evo of the
aluminum 215 later sold to rover - on kaiser, who used it in the cj,
again until '71, when amc took over and ironically sold it back to
buick.  the 350 v8 was a high deck derivative of the 300.  factoid -
the 225 had twice the hp of the cj's 134-cube four, but weighed
-less-.  the only change kaiser made to it was a heavier flywheel, and
i've heard the cj 225 will idle smoothly down to 200rpm.

the xj cherokee that appeared in '84 had as power a four derived from
the amc 6, which also replaced the iron puke in the cj, and the chevy
2.8 v6 from the s10 - deities know why.  scarcely bigger or more
powerful than the four, it did have six cylinders.  but those early
2.8s are widely reviled and it's generally considered to be crap.  it
lasted 3 years, then was replaced by the 4.0 in '87, another version of
the amc inline 6.

there was briefly an xj wagoneer, but i believe that was post-2.8.
the big waggie became the grand wagoneer at that time.

gm does not now, nor ever did, own am general.  they have a big stake
in it now but not as i understand a controlling interest.  renault
bought into amc in a big way in the early '80s, and because am general
also included the old studebaker truck plant with its army 2.5t and 5t
contracts, it was sold - to ltv iirc - because defense suppliers
cannot be foreign-owned.  amg has i believe passed through several
hands since then.  renault's interest in amc ended abruptly when their
chairman was assassinated by terrorists; nobody else in the company
cared about the american market and it was shortly sold to chrysler.
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