Now the real answer

Posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 15:05:30 :

In Reply to: What is a Dodge SPITFIRE engine? posted by Jeff [75.139.210.149] on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 13:52:18 :

The real and mostly unknown story was that Dodge and Triumph were collaborating on a project to offer a flathead 6 repowered Triumph Spitfire. Unfortunately, labor issues in England got out of hand and the deal was scrapped, leaving Dodge with thousands of specially cast heads saying Spitfire. Not being ones to let parts go to waste, the marketing wonks came up with the idea to use them on their current production engines. Thus the Dodge Spitfire engine.
As Paul Harvey would have said, Now you know the rest of the story!
Tim

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• Ummm... I believe you... I think - David Sherman 15:17:15 02/13/2010
  • Re: Ummm... I believe you... I think - axelsteve 17:14:46 02/13/2010
    • Maybe you are confusing Spitfire with - Chriscase 21:13:15 02/13/2010
      • Ha Ha - Jerry in Idaho 21:57:00 02/13/2010
  • Re: Ummm... I believe you... I think - Paul ( in NY) 16:09:47 02/13/2010
    • Re: Ummm... I believe you... I think - Bill Kerfoot 19:18:20 02/13/2010
      • Re: Ummm... I believe you... I think - axelsteve 21:23:01 02/13/2010
  • Re: Would hate to loose... - chrisnj 15:21:15 02/13/2010
    • Re: Would hate to loose... - David Sherman 15:27:51 02/13/2010

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