When all else fails we can alway's depend on Gerry Calhoun :
> > 426, it was a 392, a early elephant.
>
>You must have missed my eariler message to you. The 392 was NOT BUILT
>till 1957 and was only in production for 2 years and only available in
>the Chrysler and Imperial lines, not the Dodge or Plymouth. The eariler
>versions were available from about '51 or so (will look it up for you),
>and were under 300 CID in size. I believe the first mopar lines to get
>them were DeSoto and Chrysler. The nickname for the 392 was not an
 I think it was '52. It was the Indy pace car for that year I know.
And 297 was the CID if memory serves, they called it a "turbo fire"
or something along those lines. Chrysler recently released an ad showing
all their pace cars and it was listed.
>Elephant, It was called a WHALE motor, at least here in SoCal, the
>early home of Hot Rods. 
 Elephant could work.. if you painted it white *smirk*
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