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Re: Defunct Marques of Any Consequence, All. -Reply

To: gardner7@pilot.infi.net
Subject: Re: Defunct Marques of Any Consequence, All. -Reply
From: mgb.roadster@juno.com (Larry A Hoy)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 12:20:45 -0700
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:01:16 +0000 "Scott Gardner"
<gardner7@pilot.infi.net> writes:
Snip...............
>       It's a wonder the Dodge Viper made it.  Of course, to sell it to
the 
>bean counters, they had to justify the engine as a future option for 
>their truck line.  Can't a multi-billion dollar company make a car 
>just for fun?
>Scott
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner

Scott, I'm not an expert here but I believe the V10 was actually being
developed for the truck line when someone (Iacocca and his buddy Caroll
Shelby?) got a wild hair.  Can anyone confirm this?

Larry Hoy (MGB.Roadster@juno.com)
Denver, CO USA
1969 MGB Roadster
1987 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
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