RE: 5th Annual Muckenthaler Motor Car Show

Tim Byars (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 13:01:09 -0700


At 12:41 PM 5/17/99, Jo Slade wrote:
>>One interesting thing about Chrysler. Then Iaccoa (SP) went to Congress
>>to bail them out one of the provisions was Chrysler HAD TO DESTROY all
>>of it's V8 molds. All the 426, 440, 360, 318, everything. That is why a
>>few years later they bought AMC/Jeep to get the AMC 360 block to have a
>>V8.
>
>An Urban Legend in the making?
>
>They never stopped producing 318's. They've never stopped being available
>in pickups.

It was on one of those car shows on the history of Chrysler. Maybe it was
anything deemed "performance"

Tim

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