You where writing to John Pummill;
>  JP> Exactly. As time went on GM went more and more corporate with the
>  JP> engines, doing away with the Olds, Buick, and Pontiac 350 replacing
>  JP> them with corporate 305 and 350s. (just one example)   
>  JP> -!- FMail 0.94
>  JP>  ! Origin: Used ?? I Prefer Well Broken In (1:123/30)
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> I thought that might be what corp. meant.  Sounds like a good idea too,
> one line of engines instead of five.
It is a good idea in some ways, you drastically reduce the variety of parts
you need to stock. If you own the vehicles you can canabolize one to get the
other going.
BUT, with one engine, you lose the different flavors of engines. You lose
the Buick torque monsters, be they small or big block. As one example.
That dare to be different isn't so different anymore when Luigi and Guido
get to the track in their Camaro and their Firebird, they both have a chevy
350 under the hoods.
Alex.
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