> A Zed Wrote:
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> > ♣Slew Foot♣ Wrote:
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>
> > Yeah 383 it was right on the quarter panel there was a lot of ball
> they
>
> > used to put all sorts of parts in it there are Ford parts and it there
>
> > Dodge parts in it you put the wife wash fluid in the hot water bottle
>
> > that said Ford on it and it had vacu assist everything yeah I can
> still
>
> > remember that sucking sound and when it when it rains and you're at a
>
> > stoplight the damn wipers would go nuts cuz of the vacuum was so high
> at
>
> > idle
>
> AMC never made a 383. chrysler did.
>
> AMC had not used anyone else's engines since they used packard engines
> in the mid-'50's.
>
> AMC made V-8s in sizes of 250, 287, 290, 304, 327, 343, 360, 390, and a
> 401 CID.
>
> there has been some confusion over the 327, 360, and 390, because chevy
> made a 327, chrysler and ford both made a 360, and ford made a 390.
>
> that said, all the aforementioned were AMC engines, and the similar
> displacements as the big three's famous mills were coincidental.
>
> fun fact: the AMC 327 was made 5 years before the chevy engine of the
> same displacement, and in its original 4bbl version, was arguably the
> first muscle car (1957 rambler rebel).
correction: AMC used a couple different non-AMC engines in the '80's, made by audi and GM.(edited)