1955 Plymouth Polysphere? Mopar launches the horsepower wars! Dealer film!

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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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@radioguy1620 Год назад

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.

@shaggydogg630 11 месяцев назад

“ I want a V-8! Quit trying to get me to buy a flat head six!!

@autochronicles8667 11 месяцев назад

but the mileage is amazing...

@swapmeethunter9586 Год назад

yeah they beat Chevy/Ford so bad with this knowledge they won every race and Nascar had to BAN Chrysler... that was SAD...

@74rockon Год назад

What kind of drugs are you smoking there

@ciro356 10 месяцев назад

I didn't know that 😮 Did they only ban the Chrysler 300? I ask because I recall Petty drove a Plymouth in 1960

@tomservo56954 Год назад

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)

@autochronicles8667 Год назад

full hemi heads were heavy also...

@saxongreen78 Год назад

$300 was a massive saving in those days...you could buy a _really good_ used car for that sorta money.

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

@@saxongreen78 Dodges cost more than Plymouths anyway, regardless of 6 or V8.

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

@@autochronicles8667 Mine are over 100 lbs. each!

@massivefins2597 Год назад

hmm but what about the flat head? :)

@swapmeethunter9586 Год назад

Ford.... nope

@ciro356 10 месяцев назад

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 😢

@tarstakars Год назад

Wow the guy who owns acme motors, his voice sounds of awful out like Don Wilson. I wonder if it is him?

@sambone8194 Год назад

It could very well be. Don Wilson did Chrysler promotional films in this era.

@shaggydogg630 11 месяцев назад

Oh yeah, that’s Don Wilson.

@fordtruxdad5155 9 месяцев назад

POWER FLITE???? But what about all the great advantages of the SAFETY CLUTCH Chrysler was pushing so hard just a couple of years ago????

@merc-ni7hy Год назад

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

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

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.

@merc-ni7hy 11 месяцев назад

@@jamesbosworth4191 no matter how you spit shine the chrysler 6...it still is an old fashioned flathead 6

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

@@merc-ni7hy Most 6 cyl buyers couldn't have cared less.

@merc-ni7hy 11 месяцев назад

@@jamesbosworth4191 i bet they did seeing over head valve was all the rage at the time

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

@@merc-ni7hy Not 6 cyl buyers. Most were older women or scrooges like Robert MacNamara.

@daviduliana4447 11 месяцев назад

I love how they make such different sales pitches to women than to men. What an insult

@jamesbosworth4191 11 месяцев назад

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.