Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carburetor...
...first time Chevvy has a V-8 engine of 162 h.p. With special carburetor and exhaust (available as optional equipment), it can be stepped up to 180 h.p. Chevvy's six-cylinder engine has been boosted from 115 to 136 h.p. Prices will be about the same as this year...
...Pontiac's 4,047 dealers are also showing off their 1955 entries. The new Pontiac is 2½ in. lower and as much as 3.5 in. longer than this year's. The new V-8 engine has stepped horsepower up from 127 to 180, and an optional carburetor will boost it to 200 h.p. Buick, Olds and Cadillac, which made complete model changes last year, have only face-lifted the models to be shown in the next few weeks. But there are dozens of engineering changes. Cadillac has a 260-h.p. engine, up from...
...enough (weight: 2,833 Ibs.) for speed, has a wheel base long enough for comfort (102 in.) yet short enough for good roadability. With the top up. the car is only 51½ in. high. Under the hood is a modified Mercury V-8 engine with a four-barreled carburetor that can churn up 160 h.p. From a standing start, the Thunderbird can leave the standard (130 h.p.) Ford far behind. For amateur racers, there is a set of competition instruments (tachometer and elapsed-time clock), for family drivers such familiar extra equipment as radio and heater, power brakes, power...
...engine. Instead of last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury has a completely redesigned V8, turning up 161 h.p., that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours. It includes such features as overhead valves, a four-barrel carburetor, and a compression ratio boosted from 7.2-1 to 7.5-1. The car's performance: 16 to 20 miles to the gal lon and a top speed of more than 100 m.p.h...