RE: 5th Annual Muckenthaler Motor Car Show

Jo Slade (jslade@bc.sympatico.ca)
Mon, 17 May 1999 12:41:19 -0700


>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.