Behind the cancellation of Hemi C

[thedarkwolf]

"Neither the Windsor small blocks or te 427 have hemi Heads."

Well there was the SOHC 427. It had hemi heads but I dought many if any were ever put in cobras. Then again this page says they did but I have never heard of one before. If there is one out there its got to be worth some serious money.

They have a pic of one in a cobra non-stock. I would love to ride in that thing. I couldn't even imagine that kinda power in that small of a car . 658hp at 7500rpm stock Man I gotta get one of those to replace my 390 in my galaxie.

 

[burnedout]

DABANSHEE: I never said the Ford motors had Hemi heads.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Well I was wondering how 'Shelby' Cobras had anything to do with the 'price of eggs'.

"Yes, the old AC Bristol was first produced in the UK. Shelby got his hands on some. Put 260 and 289 V8s in them. Began building his own chassis. Ultimately, hehehehe, the 427 CI Ford crossbolt main engine was installed."

Ah, the Cobra body is based on that of the 50's era AC Ace.

Bristol is another auto concern all together. They made the famed Bristol Beaufighter of WWII. Which was used extensively by RAF Fighter Command as a nightfighter, eqiped with air-intercept radar, RAF Coastal Command as a Torpedo Bomber/Strike fighter, RAF Desert Airforce as a strike fighter. They were extensivelly used by the Australians in the South Pacific where the Japanese knew them as the 'Whispering Death'. 4 US nightfighter squadrons also used them too. They were one hell of an anti-ship strike fighter, armed with 4 20mm cannons in the nose & either six .303 Brownings or four .50 Browning Machine guns (the Australian made ones) in the wings, plus 8 rockets & a torpedo or bombs. Also the observer/navigator was also armed with a .303 Vickers K gun firing out the back.

Well anyway, before the war Bristol assembled BMWs for the UK market (it was the post deression era of Tarifs, so it wasnt worth fully importing them). After the war Bristol received a BMW auto-engine foundary as war reperations, & it was packed up & sent to the UK. So then Bristol was making BMW engines themselves. Eventually over time Bristols cars evolved, the engines also evolved & the heads eventually became twin-cam, not unlike the straight-6 engines of Aston-Martin & Jaguar. Because of the scarcity of steel in the post war period they were made of aircraft aluminium & Bristol have carried on that tradition ever since (Land-Rovers first used aluminium for the same reason). Bristol still make cars today in very limited numbers, the current model is actually called the Beaufighter.

 

[prontospyder]

lupin:

Cause the Wall Street Journal says so:

"Still, that will require a tough balancing act. Mr. Schrempp notes that the company doesn't want to "water down" its highbrow Mercedes brand by making it too similar to the mass-market Chrysler."

http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB97260864082844555.html

NFS4:

Same article:

"Mr. Schrempp says the real value of the DaimlerChrysler deal won't be evident until the company begins to produce cars and trucks designed jointly by its two halves -- something that won't happen for a couple more years. The deal has created "tremendous opportunities which take time, because you have to engineer it into the product and normally that takes one product cycle," he says."

Chryslers better become more like Mercedes (at least quality wise) or risk making the Daimler-Chrysler merger the biggest corporate bust in history.

 

[NFS4]

It still doesn't stipulate a ES300/Camry like connection. A Mercedes built on the same platform as a Chrysler?? Hans would roll over in his grave.

 

[prontospyder]

Well, Chryslers/Dodges/Jeeps better have the quality close to a S-Class...and share some parts/technology.

That would be a win-win situation for both consumers and the company.

 

[prontospyder]

Hans would of never expected an automotive future, where everything is so interconnected as in a GLOBAL ECONOMY.