balthazar
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Moltie got my similar one- Hudson's 'Twin-H Power'. Dodge did use 'Powerdome' officially to refer to at least one of their '70s hoods. • • • Powermaster Six ~ DeSoto
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Not enough.
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pow- what's that from? I have a similar one, don't want to double-up.
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PowerFlite
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Thanks for the addition. Still a very brief experiment within the 60s. I don't think ChryCo touched it in the 60s. What imports started using separate liter call-outs (as opposed to part of a model name)?
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^ Production car displacement badge; I believe so. There were larger production engines, but I don't believe they wore badging (beyond cylinder count). • • • cletus :: >>"ford also did the metric thing back in the 60's with the galaxys and the fairlanes correct?"<< Briefly yes; the Galaxie "7-Litre", new for 1966 : "7-litre Sports Package" was offered for '67, but the actual badging reverted to "428" that year. The factory race Fairlanes, the '64 Thunderbolts, were 427s, but I see no evidence they wore badges. However, they were commonly lettered with '427' designations, and the '63 Galaxie lightweight race cars wore '427' badges, too. By the time the production Fairlanes/Torinos got RPO 428s (at least by '69, maybe earlier), they were badged as '428's.... so in the 60s at least, Ford seemingly only dabbled with liter designations for 1 year on 1 model.
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In '68 the OHC-6 went to 250 CI : before that it was 230 CI : 455 Grand Am : These are the ones (beside the GTO & T/A) that spring to mind WRT Pontiac. Cadillac used the '8.2 Litre' badging on the Eldorado when the 500 CI came out in '70, it was used at least a few years after that :
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Is pretty beat up for only 50K miles. I never cared for this one (tho it has a host of interesting details), but like any other period concept, it deserves restoration.
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Ain't nuttin' to NOT like there.
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Right, the 389 GTOs wore '6.5L' badges, the OHC six Firebirds wore '3.8LOHC" badges, the Grand Am wore '7.4L" badges.... and the later T/A 6.6s, but in between we had many '428's, '400's, '350's, '326's... Pontiac played it a bit loose with switching the displacement systems up; the GTO kept using the emblem cletus posted above in '67-68, even tho the cars were then 6.6L (400s).
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Standing back a bit, I could certainly get behind the Malibu & Impala becoming a single model (aside from the emotional reaction to dropping one of the nameplates). The Azera/Avalon analogy doesn't hold great import, as those cars sell in relatively small numbers (well, the Azera does). IMO, these classes of car just aren't that different functionally/size-wise that their parallel existence is so mandatory, they're just different flavors of the same ice cream (same goes for the import examples cited above).
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^ Pontiac was the first US marque to do that, but it really never caught on; the engines were referred to by the public for what they were: 389, 400, 421, 428, 455, etc. Maybe because Pontiac used it intermixed with CI designations : ...on later GTOs, too.
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OCN- you've got a good eye for these heritage cues, they did not come to my mind when these pics first came up. With the rampant homogenization of modern design, these little details give me hope. Not a lot, mind you, but some.
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Nothing there to buff on the right.
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...ignore your grinding disc brakes this long :
