Re: [Amc-list] Pacer -- Curtis-Wright Rotary???

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
" 
" 
" That's not the first time an engine sharing deal was in effect --
" []
" I believe
" (but can't verify) that the same thing happened with Studebaker
" in Canada. GM was willing to supply Stude with engines to
" continue Canadian production and help their engine plant numbers
" along until the 1966 "AutoPact" between Canada and the US,
" eliminating the need to produce engines in Canada 

i'm surprised.  by my count, in the early '60s gm had not less than
-8- different engine designs requiring separate production facilities
in the us.  i know in canada pontiacs came with chevy engines, but i'd
think a market 1/10 the size of the us would still be plenty big.

in the us, a small company like amc could afford to produce 2
different engine families.  a big market, but they had a small slice,
probably less than gm had in canada at that time.  i think it was part
of stude's general decline that it was cheaper to abandon their own
engines, which were pretty nearly out of date by then, and buy
chevies.
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