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57 Chevy nitpicks the 57 Plymouth dealer video?
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mikes2nd
Posted 2022-11-27 1:00 PM (#625896)
Subject: 57 Chevy nitpicks the 57 Plymouth dealer video?


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Gambles on the grumbles?

No one will want paper air filters

1957 Chevy Vs The Plymouth... Dealer Film, GM fights back? - YouTube

 

 

 

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Powerflite
Posted 2022-11-27 9:27 PM (#625904 - in reply to #625896)
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Location: So. Cal		They have a good point about the wing window handles, ball bearing steering gear, compression ratios, and harmonic dampeners. The rest is mostly hooey. I don't know why it took so long for Chrysler to up the compression ratios. They should have had an option to jump them close to 10:1 starting with the first V8 in 1951, and every year thereafter.
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mikes2nd
Posted 2022-11-27 9:30 PM (#625906 - in reply to #625896)
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they ignored the fury engine... maybe it wasnt public at the time.

the "modern" oil bath air cleaner didnt age well... lol

And Chevys fuel injection was crap also... people ripped them off and put on carbs.

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58coupe
Posted 2022-11-28 11:03 AM (#625924 - in reply to #625896)
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Location: Alaska		The problem in the early 50s with low compression was not so much with the car companies as it was with the oil companies and the public. Yes, high octane aviation gas was being made but the average person had to be convinced that it was worth it to pay more for gas because of the increase in performance. I believe it took the demand not just of the car companies but the public on the oil companies to get them to produce the high octane car gas.
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mikes2nd
Posted 2022-11-29 12:09 AM (#625937 - in reply to #625896)
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i have a bunch of old magazines... they did not like the 57 Chevy fuel injection.. they said it would flood and you had to wait a half hour on the side of the highway... it didnt do good in the heat but said it worked great when it worked.
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