Re: [Amc-list] Re; Pacer and Rotary, now basic miss-information.

["Kelly Hardie" <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

At our little local annual car show here a few weeks ago, there was a
Studebaker sedan, a 63, with the factory blower setup. It was sweeeeet! Even
had a autographed picture of Andy Granatelli, who had something to do with
the development IIRC...

Kelly

On 9/26/07, Clarence Milstead <cmilstead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Talking about Studebakers, my Grandparents bought a 1947 Studebaker Land
> Cruiser new, it was the only car they could get that soon after the War.
> It
> had a flat head six with three on the tree and overdrive, really nice car.
> They bought a couple of more Studebakers from the same dealer, one was a
> 1952 Land Cruiser with the V-8 engine. It would really run, and I read an
> article that said that engine was very similar to the Cadillac engine in
> design. I believe Studebaker built four different V-8 engine sizes, 232,
> 259, 289, and 304. They put the supercharger on the 304 in the Avanti.
> Talk
> about opportunity lost, remember the Raymond Lowey designed Starlite (?)
> Coupe in the early 1950's? It was available with the six and small V-8
> engines. If the management had the vision to increase engine size to 289
> then it would have been the performance car of the day and they couldn't
> have built enough of them.
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