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echo: oldcars
to: ELVIS HARGROVE
from: ROY WITT
date: 1997-06-12 21:47:00
subject: 396

12 Jun 97 01:09, Hey Rocky! Elvis Hargrove pulled 396 outta his hat!:
 EH>
 ->> Uuuuuh, no!  The combustion chamber in block 348-409 came before the
 ->> porcupine, which was the 427c" - "Mystery Engine" of
 ->> 1963-1965...later to be the 396
 EH>
 EH> I always just included the "Old Crooked Head" in the porcupine
 EH> family. The 348 was really a truck engine that someone decided might
 EH> 'haul' in a passenger car. (AND it DID!) 
 When they came out in 58, I often contended that you needed a truckers 
license to drive one...:)
 ->> I knew that....I remember 53-54 Studes with full moons and lots of
 ->> salt on the rocker panels...
 EH>
 EH> And BIG numbers on the speedometer!  Remember the Studillac?
uh-huh...
RW> Lets see if any of these younger guys can tell us what full moons
RW> are all about...;)
 EH>
 EH> Well, it won't be the YOUNG ones if they do.
 EH>
 EH> Old Brad Putchat prolly could have....
But he's not a youngun...
... Duplex:  Having two apartments.
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