I DO wish mopar had invented the small block chevy engine..........Damn what a small footprint for the power output....
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I’m not either. But I do respect other classics. My neighbor used to restore and build custom cars. He spends 9 To 10 months a year traveling the US to various car shows and the like. With the virus, he hunkered down and I’ve not seen him much at all. He’s got cars of every era and every make. Including a very nice, all original 1973 Dart swinger. Just a little slant car. He’s got an old 40s era dodge truck restored, green.
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'55s are one of the exceptions 
Meh, wouldn’t have mattered. Chevys simply out sold dodges and most fords. And they really didn’t change much block wise for nearly 50 years, all combined made them cheap, plentiful and people learned how to get the most of them.
but the big power boys and girls, they all run big Hemis.
The size of the engine is the big difference. Will fit in just about any vehicle.
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That will fly low, or bend in half!
There’s a guy here with a 528 cubic inch kieth black Hemi in a PT cruiser. There’s also a guy with an all iron turbocharged 440 in a Dodge Stealth. Any engine can fit in any vehicle
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There was a local guy had one. Looked like every other Bug around until you got behind it and saw 14" wide tires hidin' under the stock fenders
That’s what my 55 has SBC 400.
That’s how this pt cruiser is.There was a local guy had one. Looked every other Bug around until you got behind it and saw 14" wide tires hidin' under the stock fenders
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Ya put the hemi in the back of the PT with a V-drive and leave the little 4cyl POS up front. Drive it on the 4cyl and be economic until the need comes to light up the hemi in the back
Was bringing a machined 383 block home from the machine shop, in the back of my Vega wagon, stopped in for a beer, told some friends I had a vega with a 383 in the back. And the 4 cylinder up front. "No way" want to bet?...................................Free beer for the day.....Ya put the hemi in the back of the PT with a V-drive and leave the little 4cyl POS up front. Drive it on the 4cyl and be economic until the need comes to light up the hemi in the back
they put small block chevys in everything.
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Glad the one photo had the card describing that little hot rod.
I was stumped tryin to figure out what it was
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1957 Ford outsold Chevy but you hardly see a Ford from that era. I like the DeSoto's from that era.
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Happy Sunday, I have said it before and got flamed into oblivion but pound for pound dollar for dollar HP for HP the SBC 350 is still the motor that changed the V8 landscape. They are virtually bullet proof and the platform and engineering was the basis for a great many innovations in both the combustible engine world and hot ridding in general. Yep I don’t have one! Mopar or Nocar!
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