Quiz for today
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Quiz Answer........1961
Another quiz, what year did Chevrolet make it's first V-8 and what were the cubic inchs?
Roy
Roy
1955, 265 cubic inch small block, but I'm always wrong about everything, just ask my wife.
Another quiz, what year did Chevrolet make it's first V-8 and what were the cubic inchs?
1917. It was a 2 piece block but i can't remember the displacement. I have an old parts catalog that has a parts breakdown illustration for it but I haven't seen it in a while. Maybe I'll dig it out.
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1917...288 CI...36 HP 
Absolutely Right, I saw one in 1950, a touring car. Another thing that isn't well Known is that Louis Chevrolet and his partner Durant opened their first production plant in Canada. How about that Aubrey. 
Roy
Roy
i have the book here someplace, and the car is local. but as i recall, 287 inches, nickel rocker covers, shared babbitt bearings on the rod pairs and an updraft carb. there is a 1917 on display at damascus chevy. (in maryland) the first car they ever sold.
i think i read the bowtie was copied off of some wall paper in a hotel in france.
disclaimer: all this is from memory except the car, it's for real.
i think i read the bowtie was copied off of some wall paper in a hotel in france.
disclaimer: all this is from memory except the car, it's for real.
See, my wife is always right, I am always wrong about everything.
gearhead409
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Dave
you hang around with the crazy guys on this website you will learn things you never thought of. as one of our older members told me a few years back, " just set back and enjoy the ride "
you hang around with the crazy guys on this website you will learn things you never thought of. as one of our older members told me a few years back, " just set back and enjoy the ride "
The ride does get bumpy every now and then.......
[you hang around with the crazy guys on this website you will learn things you never thought of. as one of our older members told me a few years back, " just set back and enjoy the ride "]
Older members? what's an older member?
Older members? what's an older member?
gearhead409
Well Known Member
Dave
the guy is older than me and been on here twice as long, i consider him my senior.
the guy is older than me and been on here twice as long, i consider him my senior.
I think he was around back then and worked Louis Chevrolet and Durant building them !!!!
Hey DQ, I was born in the 30's not the 1890's. But I wish that I was old enough to buy that 1917 Chev that had the V-8. It was in a wrecking yard in Rogers Ark., we were getting some parts for my uncle's truck. Also did you know that Chevrolet made a 4 banger in 1928. It would blow the doors off a Model A F**d. There used to be a 4 banger class at the drags and two guys had a Crossley with a 28 Chev 4 cylinder with 2 Stombergs on it. It pulled high 13's at 94 to 95 mph. That beat most 4 banger dragsters until Mickey Thompson came along with his Tempest powered Rail Roy
Roy
Hey DQ, I was born in the 30's not the 1890's. But I wish that I was old enough to buy that 1917 Chev that had the V-8. It was in a wrecking yard in Rogers Ark., we were getting some parts for my uncle's truck. Also did you know that Chevrolet made a 4 banger in 1928. It would blow the doors off a Model A F**d. There used to be a 4 banger class at the drags and two guys had a Crossley with a 28 Chev 4 cylinder with 2 Stombergs on it. It pulled high 13's at 94 to 95 mph. That beat most 4 banger dragsters until Mickey Thompson came along with his Tempest powered Rail
Roy,
I traded my Cushman Highlander and $50 for a 28 Chevy Cabriolet coupe in 1958. It was in a farmers field and hadn't run since 53. I towed it home, changed the oil, filled the radiator, put a battery in it and fuel in the header tank on the firewall and it fired right up. You're right about that overhead valve 4 banger outrunning Model A's. That was a really smooth engine. Too bad The body wood was all gone.
Bob Core
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I have one of those coffee table books about Chevrolet, published by Collectable Automobile or one of those. In it there's a claim that in 1933 Chevy, in response to the success of the 1932 Ford V8, had designed an OHV V8. Since the six-cylinder Chevrolets still seemed to be selling well, the plans to produce the V8 were abandoned.
It's the only place I ever read or heard about any such animal. Wouldn't it be neat to find documentation, drawings, pics of it, assuming the story to be true.
Anybody else heard the tale?
It's the only place I ever read or heard about any such animal. Wouldn't it be neat to find documentation, drawings, pics of it, assuming the story to be true.
Anybody else heard the tale?