1955 Plymouth Polysphere? Mopar launches the horsepower wars! Dealer film!
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Mopar figures out heads and cams for MORE POWER! in the early 50s... Fires the first real shot?? Was this the true beginning of the horsepower wars? The Dodge D500 special edition comes out.. Performance packages become the rage.
This would get them banned from Nascar with their hemi... #Hemi #Polyshere
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My Dad and I ordered the last Marine version of the poly available , we were marine engine dealers, they built it up from parts in stock at Dipetro Kay distributors back around 1978, pretty heavy motor and well made. much more expensive to make than the later 318 with stamped sheet metal rockers.
yeah they beat Chevy/Ford so bad with this knowledge they won every race and Nascar had to BAN Chrysler... that was SAD...
What kind of drugs are you smoking there
I didn't know that 😮
Did they only ban the Chrysler 300? I ask because I recall Petty drove a Plymouth in 1960
The poly-sphere engine kept many of the advantages of the original Hemi motor, while being simpler and less costly to build--a full Hemi would have been too pricey for the Plymouth market at the time (a Plymouth V8 cost around $300 less than a comparable Dodge with the Red Ram Hemi V8)
full hemi heads were heavy also...
@saxongreen78 Dodges cost more than Plymouths anyway, regardless of 6 or V8.
@@autochronicles8667 Mine are over 100 lbs. each!
hmm but what about the flat head? :)
Ford.... nope
Once dealers were taught about the specs of the cars they would sell even if their background was in business administration or marketing or economics or the likes
Today that would not be necessary, the average customer doesn't care anymore 😢
According to Jay Leno the flathead engine cuuld be rebuilt by the corner gas station of that time. Simple design.
I'm sure if you offered the guy at circle K 10k the dealer wants for the job now he would probably give it a shot :)
POWER FLITE???? But what about all the great advantages of the SAFETY CLUTCH Chrysler was pushing so hard just a couple of years ago????
i find it hard to believe that no matter what chrysler did to the old flathead 6..that it was superior to the ford or chevy 6
The Ford and Chevy 6s didn't have inserts in the exhaust ports. All ChryCo 6s did. Ford and Chevy 6s didn't have chrome plated top compression rings. All ChryCo 6s did. An oil filter was optional on the Chevy, even V8s. Standard on all Chrysler built engines, including Plymouth 6s.
@@jamesbosworth4191 no matter how you spit shine the chrysler 6...it still is an old fashioned flathead 6
@@merc-ni7hy Most 6 cyl buyers couldn't have cared less.
@@jamesbosworth4191 i bet they did seeing over head valve was all the rage at the time
@@merc-ni7hy Not 6 cyl buyers. Most were older women or scrooges like Robert MacNamara.
Wow the guy who owns acme motors, his voice sounds of awful out like Don Wilson. I wonder if it is him?
It could very well be. Don Wilson did Chrysler promotional films in this era.
Oh yeah, that’s Don Wilson.
I love how they make such different sales pitches to women than to men. What an insult
Not really, men and women often had different priorities. Even today, men like performance more so than great gas mileage. Many women care more about mileage. Men are more likely to put up with some reliability issues if the car is fantastic enough or cool enough. Many women refuse to put up with reliability issues.