Slant-6 Engines are Dangerous!!!

Most manufacturers, or at least the advertising agencies they hired, came up with some bizarre ideas and claims to move the metal back then. Many years ago, I watched a promotional film done by Studebaker for it’s dealers that extolled the virtues of their new 1964 line of cars and trucks. One of their claims was that the V8 cars had all new carburetor speed ranges. It’s been well over 30 year now and I have yet to learn what a carburetor speed range actual is. The carburetors in their 1964 cars were the exact same as they put in their 1963 cars. I guess if it sounded impressive you ran with it? I believe even Chrysler referred to the tail fin styling of either the ‘56 or ‘57 cars as being “directional stabilizers” in some ads?