In the early 1970s, I bought a used 1962 Dodge station wagon (White) with a 318 engine. It was my daily driver for a couple of years. I drove it all over the West Coast, including a 2000 mi road trip, traveling through 3 Western States. Probably the smoothest running V8 engine of that era, it got good gas mileage and you could Cruise 80 miles an hour on the interstates. It was important to stay on top of the oil changes and the tune-ups and valve adjustments. Fond memories. Another great video! 👍👍🏁😎
I owned several vehicles with the 318 poly engine, and they were very durable engine's . All you had to do was change the oil 🛢 every 3 thousand miles, keep the valves adjusted, and they would last
59 Coronet 56 Plymouth wagon I'm very familiar with the Polyhead engines. I owned a 63 Dodge sedan with the 318. It was a solid engine and made decent power. It had great torque as well. Mine had a two barrel when I got it but I managed to score a four-barrel manifold With a carb already mounted on it. IIRC it had a Carter WCFB on it. I also remember we took it into Auto shop (remember that class) in high school and put in the manifold With carb on it and added dual exhaust. That was many years ago around 1967 so my mind's a little bit Foggy. The Dodge was nothing fancy it was a four-door sedan light metallic blue with a white top. It did not look fancy but it got the job done. I thought it was a pretty good car for a high school kid to be driving. The body was clean no rust. Which was somewhat rare for a car in Michigan during the era of road salt. The 318 poly head engine in it was almost bulletproof.
I’ve always been a GM guy, but the Chrysler and Ford cars of this era have grown on me. A lot of that newfound fondness has to do with how good the engineering was, and particularly with the engines and transmissions for the Plymouth/Dodge/DeSoto/Chrysler/Imperial models. Side note: I was born in 1955, so these are the cars I grew up with. WYR#1: 1956 Plymouth Fury. WYR#2: 1958 Plymouth wagon😎❤️
1956 Fury. Beautiful car. Great engines and vehicles from a a great Era. Sadly Dodge and Chrysler of Yesterday is Long Gone. Great video. Keep them going.
Chrysler died years ago totally agree Also have you ever noticed that any company to own the jeep brand eventually goes under I honestly believe it's a curse.. like the curse of the bambino Sweet choices
Love ❤️ the 318 poly in my 2/ 66 🇦🇺Dodge Phoenixs . The 63 🇦🇺Dodge Phoenix iv driven pulled real good soooo love the 318 poly good size valves love the rocker set up as well . Old school Mopar for life . 👌🇦🇺✌️.
I remember my parents having a 1963 Dodge 330 station wagon with the 318. My dad said that he felt that engine was one of the best engines Dodge ever made. He loved that car . He described it as ugly but tough. And it was his first car with AC. They stopped driving it when the transmission died in 1972. Although he was a mechanic, he didn’t have time to fix it. But he intended to at a later time. But a tree fell on it in the mid 1980s. So he sold the engine to a customer with a 1965 Dodge. . I think he was more fond of this 318 than the later 318. We always called them the WIDE 318. Not sure if they were actually wider across the top or just appeared that way. Anyway, it’s on my bucket list to find and purchase a 1963 Dodge wagon if any still exist. YES, I went on a wild tangent. But the discussion of this engine series brought back memories to this 60 year old😂
The A 318 was definitely wider than the LA 318 which replaced it in the USA in 1967 and export markets in 1968. The LA family was introduced in 1964 to provide a V8 engine option for the A body (Dart, Valiant) cars which could not accept the A engine.
@ yes, I remember it first being 273 that was offered in the valiant and Dart. It kind of reminds me of the small block Ford V8 which was called the Fairlane V8 in 1962 because it fit in places where the Y block wouldn’t fit. Both the ford Windsor V8 and the Chrysler LA engines became the companies’ workhorse engines for many years and made in various sizes. Both of them had a slightly larger engine Block for their largest “small blocks “ , the 351W Ford and the 360 Chrysler built.
I have a Chrysler A in my 1966 Dodge Travco Motorhome it’s the 318-3 heavy duty version of the A. Hydraulic lifters, rotating exhaust valves, different exhaust manifolds, low compression for school bus and dump trucks. The RV weighs over 10k pounds. The A runs at about 160 degrees Love my Poly.
'56 Plymouths for me Jay. Here's a story, my folk's first new car was a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere with a 318 and Torqueflight tranny. 185,000 miles when they finally traded it off and still running. Dad always said it was the best car he ever owned. An alternator, water pump and just regular maintenance was all he ever had to do to it. Had to replace a modulator valve on the Torqueflight. Hope you enjoyed your visit to the ACD Museum.
I dig that place was awesome can't wait to go back =) Thank you so much for sharing those memories what shape was the body in when you traded it in mopars rotted more than any other American made car they didn't have the undercoating that does and Chevy did and that why mopar anything is expensive...
@@What.its.like. Dad was a decent amateur body man and did some rust repair (bondo) and painted the car around 1974. Body pan and rockers were intact. No rust through on floorboards. He had seat covers installed at GWKay.Still looked nice when he traded it a few years later. I don't recall if the car was undercoated.Glad you enjoyed the ACD Museum.
Torqueflite transmissions didn't use modulator valves. A mechanical linkage between the carburetor and the transmission valve body was used to "tell" the valve body the throttle position. This linkage is commonly known as the kickdown linkage in MoPar speak, but it also affects the upshifts depending upon the driver's foot and vehicle speed. GM and Ford used a modulator valveslwhich served a similar purpose. The modulator valve was connected to manifold vacuum.
Jay a 59 Corenet,or the 58 Plymouth wagon,I always hav been a big fan of the 57-9 Chrysler cars. There is a really cool road test by Tom McCahill from Mecanix Illistrated on the 58 Plymouth Wagon with the 318 and The Torqueflite 727,he was a big Chrysler Fan,but almost every car Magazine at the time raved about Chryslers good handling,and roadability,mostly in part to the torsion bar suspension, introduced in 57. Always great work.
My choice would be the 1956 Plymouth Fury. I did own a 1962 Plymouth Wagon 318 Poly when I was young. Hand me down from my Mother and i wanted to put a 413 in it but my Dad said i had too many project cars already. I was 17 then. Now that i am 69 years old i have several 1956 Desoto project cars and my Dad cant so NO anymore. But I do miss my Dad
@What.its.like. it's awesome. Originally I put a two barrel holly carburettor on it. But didn't like the way it run. A mate said why did you put that junk on. I said because the original carburettor is warn out. I did get the original carburettor restored and I put it back on. 6 years later it's still running beautiful. It gets about 25mpg. Runs smooth. Heaps of torque to move the big Plymouth. And get this it's the cars original engine and never been rebuilt. I had a twin exhaust put on and it sounds great.
Great episode. Choices: 56 Fury, 62 Plymouth Wagon, From 57 to 60 or 61, I think Chrysler got a little carried away with the tail fins. We never owned one, my father was a Ford man, but those Chrysler tail fins of the late 50s, annoyed him to no end. A man he knew had one of them, and my dad was always threatening to take a pair of tin snips to them. And, he didn't discriminate; either he hated the fins on a 59 Cadillac just as passionately. I'm afraid his hatred of those tail fins rubbed off on me, to some extent. And, in general, I think most mid -50s cars are more moderate, and look better than the excesses of the late 50s, and this goes for all American manufacturers, but that's just my opinion. Thanks again, for a great episode. I've always been a little vague on Chrysler engines.
Sweet choices thank you so much for sharing those memories =) cool story My dad was a Chevy/dodge truck guy and hated ford one day. I found a F150 dealership brochure in the house and it wasn't mine nor my brothers.. A few months later dad brought the best truck he ever owned extended cab ford F150 with the turbo six fully loaded that he got a stellar deal on it was a $60k truck he got it for $34k it was crazy I think this was around 2013ish damn near every option, dad loved the truck but didn't pull his trailer to his liking he could have swapped the rear end but decided to trade for a basement level chevy dad only had the Chevy for maybe 6 months before he passed away both trucks were huge the ford was easier to drive both big bricks
WYR1: I'm in a minority here, but I always loved the looks of the '60 Plymouths. WYR2: I'm not a fan of the wagons of this period, but I'd write in the '57 Plymouth. The sedans and coupes looked better balanced to me.
Of all the cars, I'd go for the '59 Dodge. The '58 Plymouth S/W would be my 2nd. In a 60's Dodge truck(D-100 to D-300) through '66, the A-318 was the top engine. The 225 slant 6 was the base engine through the end of it's production(even in the D-300). I had a 1965 Dodge D-300 flatbed with the A-318 V8/4-speed and it was strictly a flatland truck. It could haul practically anything. One time, and one time only, I had to take it into the mountains, hauling about 4 cords of firewood between the stake bed on the truck and pulling a trailer. Having to stop in the middle of the highway to downshift into compound 1st several times was no fun. Then came the downhill section. Engine braking didn't work and the brakes had a hard time slowing the truck. Luckily, I made it all the way down the hill, with white knuckles and being exhausted from steering. The only thing that saved me was as we entered a town, the road started going up again and I was able to stop the truck. When I got out, shaking profusely, I walked around the truck and trailer. Every wheel had smoke pouring out of the brakes. I've never been able to get a tan since! I learned my lesson and, although I still had to haul firewood into the mountains, it was on the truck, only. On flat ground, I hauled even more weight with the truck and trailer loaded with bags of dusting sulfur, but because of the poor brake design, it was 25 mph, tops. Hauling a fertilizer tender where the truck and trailer combo weighed about 25 tons was much easier.
2001 was the last yr for the 318 atleast in the truck lineup. When the 02 models came out, they were an entirely different truck. Daimler Chrysler at that time totally changed the engine options. Gone was the 318 and 360 for a German design and the sheet metal was a total change. 2001 was the last yr of the second Gen Ram atleast in the half ton series. In late 2001 when the dealers were loaded up with the 02 models that I disliked greatly. I hid my disgust for a better price on one of the remaining 01’s , a Laramie quad cab nicely equipped with a 318. That was 23 yrs ago and I’m still driving that truck. It’s garage kept and still looks good and drives strong. I was Leary of the new unproven German design at the time and Chrysler probably made more 318’s than anything else and they had a solid reputation and to me the 2nd Gen models being replaced looked a whole lot better to me. And all these yrs later, I still like the way they look. The 2nd Gens, Either you loved them at first sight or Hated them. They were round, and radical when they first came out in 94, Either way, they got your attention. The look distinctive, no confusing this truck for any other. Today? I can’t tell a Ford From a Chevy at distance.what do they lack? Distinction.
I briefly owned a 1967 Canadian built Dodge Polara with the A 318 (or was it a 313?) - production of the A engine was extended one year longer in (or for?) Canada than the US.
Chrysler was looking for a way to make a cheaper hemi without the cost and weight of using the double rocker arm shafts. The poly was their solution. Way back in the very early 70's, a buddy had a blue 63 Plymouth with the 318 poly 2bbl and Torque-Flite transmission. While it wasn't exactly fast, it did great burnouts and was way quicker than you would think. For the most part, those (in fact, all) 318s were pretty bulletproof. WYR- none, but I would take a 63 Sport Fury! NTT=???.
My first 'driver' was a 66 Sport Fury with this 318. IIRC mine was a 2-barrel and it had awful fuel mileage. It was kind of torquey but not really that fast, likely due to the weight. It was also the first car I worked on courtesy of a friend who was a mechanic teaching me how to do things. I still wrench everything myself except auto trans work. For the life of me I can't remember what became of that car though I remember the next one and that I didn't trade in the Fury for it. Prior to this I had a 61(?) Rambler with a cracked block when I was too young to have a drivers license (which didn't stop me from driving it a few times in the neighborhod). WYR none of these appeal to me greatly, but the Dodge Coronet and the 62 Plymouth wagon will do.
Maybe I am mistaken. But wasn't the 1955 Windsor engine a version of the A Block? It was 301CI 188 hp. It was enlarged to 331Ci in 1956 230hp with a powerpac 250 available.
Not to get confused with the other poly engine Chrysler had a really confusing engine lineage but I am going to try to cover all of the engines eventually I really want to do one on the flathead six but that's a complicated one with tons of different engine displacements but one day it will be on here as well as the Chrysler flathead four
Chrysler loved using the same engine displacements sizes in different engine families offered at about the same time for example they made a 426 hemi and a 426 wedge same displacement totally different engine
Heavy and gutless junk. My Dad had a 58 Plymouth wagon scrap heap. Never bought another POS Chrysler product. Looks like Crap Chryslers will finally be out of business. Stelantis is bankrupt. Good riddance Chrysler crap.
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In the early 1970s, I bought a used 1962 Dodge station wagon (White) with a 318 engine. It was my daily driver for a couple of years. I drove it all over the West Coast, including a 2000 mi road trip, traveling through 3 Western States. Probably the smoothest running V8 engine of that era, it got good gas mileage and you could Cruise 80 miles an hour on the interstates. It was important to stay on top of the oil changes and the tune-ups and valve adjustments. Fond memories.
Another great video! 👍👍🏁😎
These motors make big power in modern dynamometer competitions under the vintage engine class!
I owned several vehicles with the 318 poly engine, and they were very durable engine's . All you had to do was change the oil 🛢 every 3 thousand miles, keep the valves adjusted, and they would last
Yeah we had em in our Aussie Chrysler valiants aswell as the 360 and there's plenty of them still running
59 Coronet
56 Plymouth wagon
I'm very familiar with the Polyhead engines. I owned a 63 Dodge sedan with the 318. It was a solid engine and made decent power. It had great torque as well. Mine had a two barrel when I got it but I managed to score a four-barrel manifold With a carb already mounted on it. IIRC it had a Carter WCFB on it. I also remember we took it into Auto shop (remember that class) in high school and put in the manifold With carb on it and added dual exhaust. That was many years ago around 1967 so my mind's a little bit Foggy.
The Dodge was nothing fancy it was a four-door sedan light metallic blue with a white top.
It did not look fancy but it got the job done. I thought it was a pretty good car for a high school kid to be driving. The body was clean no rust. Which was somewhat rare for a car in Michigan during the era of road salt.
The 318 poly head engine in it was almost bulletproof.
Same2 cars they are nice
I’ve always been a GM guy, but the Chrysler and Ford cars of this era have grown on me. A lot of that newfound fondness has to do with how good the engineering was, and particularly with the engines and transmissions for the Plymouth/Dodge/DeSoto/Chrysler/Imperial models. Side note: I was born in 1955, so these are the cars I grew up with. WYR#1: 1956 Plymouth Fury. WYR#2: 1958 Plymouth wagon😎❤️
Sweet choices =)
1956 Fury. Beautiful car. Great engines and vehicles from a a great Era. Sadly Dodge and Chrysler of Yesterday is Long Gone. Great video. Keep them going.
Chrysler died years ago totally agree
Also have you ever noticed that any company to own the jeep brand eventually goes under I honestly believe it's a curse.. like the curse of the bambino
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@@What.its.like. i NEVER LOOKED AT THAT WAY BUT IT IS TRUE!
Love ❤️ the 318 poly in my 2/ 66 🇦🇺Dodge Phoenixs . The 63 🇦🇺Dodge Phoenix iv driven pulled real good soooo love the 318 poly good size valves love the rocker set up as well . Old school Mopar for life . 👌🇦🇺✌️.
Another great engine family summary, Jay. And I'll take the '59 Dodge and the '58 Plymouth wagon.
Happy you dig this one sweet choices
WYR: All of them.
Question#1 any of them, Question #2 any of them,
I concur 💯 percent 🙂
I remember my parents having a 1963 Dodge 330 station wagon with the 318. My dad said that he felt that engine was one of the best engines Dodge ever made. He loved that car . He described it as ugly but tough. And it was his first car with AC. They stopped driving it when the transmission died in 1972. Although he was a mechanic, he didn’t have time to fix it. But he intended to at a later time. But a tree fell on it in the mid 1980s. So he sold the engine to a customer with a 1965 Dodge. . I think he was more fond of this 318 than the later 318. We always called them the WIDE 318. Not sure if they were actually wider across the top or just appeared that way. Anyway, it’s on my bucket list to find and purchase a 1963 Dodge wagon if any still exist. YES, I went on a wild tangent. But the discussion of this engine series brought back memories to this 60 year old😂
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing those memories =)
The A 318 was definitely wider than the LA 318 which replaced it in the USA in 1967 and export markets in 1968. The LA family was introduced in 1964 to provide a V8 engine option for the A body (Dart, Valiant) cars which could not accept the A engine.
@ yes, I remember it first being 273 that was offered in the valiant and Dart. It kind of reminds me of the small block Ford V8 which was called the Fairlane V8 in 1962 because it fit in places where the Y block wouldn’t fit. Both the ford Windsor V8 and the Chrysler LA engines became the companies’ workhorse engines for many years and made in various sizes. Both of them had a slightly larger engine Block for their largest “small blocks “ , the 351W Ford and the 360 Chrysler built.
The 59 cornet
Very good video thank you
Happy you dig this one =)
Oh, I was going to say that the LA series V8 started with the 273. Eventually, it grew to 360 c.i. and was quite an engine.
Thanks for all the info. I'll take the 62 Plymouth wagon..... the beginning of many great B-bodies.
Great choices =)
I have a Chrysler A in my 1966 Dodge Travco Motorhome it’s the 318-3 heavy duty version of the A. Hydraulic lifters, rotating exhaust valves, different exhaust manifolds, low compression for school bus and dump trucks. The RV weighs over 10k pounds. The A runs at about 160 degrees Love my Poly.
Sweet =)
First pick 58 Plymouth 2 door wagon second 1960 Plymouth wagon and throw in a 1957 Dodge W200 4WD pickup.
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cool. im rebuilding a 277 Poly for my '56 Savoy right now!
Also the 62 Plymouth
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'56 Plymouths for me Jay. Here's a story, my folk's first new car was a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere with a 318 and Torqueflight tranny. 185,000 miles when they finally traded it off and still running. Dad always said it was the best car he ever owned. An alternator, water pump and just regular maintenance was all he ever had to do to it. Had to replace a modulator valve on the Torqueflight. Hope you enjoyed your visit to the ACD Museum.
I dig that place was awesome can't wait to go back =)
Thank you so much for sharing those memories what shape was the body in when you traded it in mopars rotted more than any other American made car they didn't have the undercoating that does and Chevy did and that why mopar anything is expensive...
@@What.its.like. Dad was a decent amateur body man and did some rust repair (bondo) and painted the car around 1974. Body pan and rockers were intact. No rust through on floorboards. He had seat covers installed at GWKay.Still looked nice when he traded it a few years later. I don't recall if the car was undercoated.Glad you enjoyed the ACD Museum.
Torqueflite transmissions didn't use modulator valves. A mechanical linkage between the carburetor and the transmission valve body was used to "tell" the valve body the throttle position. This linkage is commonly known as the kickdown linkage in MoPar speak, but it also affects the upshifts depending upon the driver's foot and vehicle speed. GM and Ford used a modulator valveslwhich served a similar purpose. The modulator valve was connected to manifold vacuum.
@@phillipcramer7936 Thanks Phil for the correction.
Jay a 59 Corenet,or the 58 Plymouth wagon,I always hav been a big fan of the 57-9 Chrysler cars.
There is a really cool road test by Tom McCahill from Mecanix Illistrated on the 58 Plymouth Wagon with the 318 and The Torqueflite 727,he was a big Chrysler Fan,but almost every car Magazine at the time raved about Chryslers good handling,and roadability,mostly in part to the torsion bar suspension, introduced in 57.
Always great work.
Always loved any of the MoPar Poly engines! Always thought the '56 Plymouth line up was best (my opinion), but they were all great!
I totally agree 56 Plymouth was such a great car tons of space as well
My choice would be the 1956 Plymouth Fury. I did own a 1962 Plymouth Wagon 318 Poly when I was young. Hand me down from my Mother and i wanted to put a 413 in it but my Dad said i had too many project cars already. I was 17 then. Now that i am 69 years old i have several 1956 Desoto project cars and my Dad cant so NO anymore. But I do miss my Dad
Very interesting. I own̈ a 57 Belvedere. It has the 301.
Sweet how do you like it
@What.its.like. it's awesome. Originally I put a two barrel holly carburettor on it. But didn't like the way it run. A mate said why did you put that junk on. I said because the original carburettor is warn out. I did get the original carburettor restored and I put it back on. 6 years later it's still running beautiful. It gets about 25mpg. Runs smooth. Heaps of torque to move the big Plymouth. And get this it's the cars original engine and never been rebuilt. I had a twin exhaust put on and it sounds great.
@What.its.like. do you have a email? I can send pics
Great episode. Choices: 56 Fury, 62 Plymouth Wagon, From 57 to 60 or 61, I think Chrysler got a little carried away with the tail fins. We never owned one, my father was a Ford man, but those Chrysler tail fins of the late 50s, annoyed him to no end. A man he knew had one of them, and my dad was always threatening to take a pair of tin snips to them. And, he didn't discriminate; either he hated the fins on a 59 Cadillac just as passionately. I'm afraid his hatred of those tail fins rubbed off on me, to some extent. And, in general, I think most mid -50s cars are more moderate, and look better than the excesses of the late 50s, and this goes for all American manufacturers, but that's just my opinion. Thanks again, for a great episode. I've always been a little vague on Chrysler engines.
Sweet choices thank you so much for sharing those memories =) cool story
My dad was a Chevy/dodge truck guy and hated ford one day. I found a F150 dealership brochure in the house and it wasn't mine nor my brothers..
A few months later dad brought the best truck he ever owned extended cab ford F150 with the turbo six fully loaded that he got a stellar deal on it was a $60k truck he got it for $34k it was crazy I think this was around 2013ish damn near every option, dad loved the truck but didn't pull his trailer to his liking he could have swapped the rear end but decided to trade for a basement level chevy dad only had the Chevy for maybe 6 months before he passed away both trucks were huge the ford was easier to drive both big bricks
@@What.its.like. Our dads grew up in an era when brand loyalty meant something. :).
The a engine is a very good engine I've got a 318 poly for 58 savoy I also have a 313 spare block to rebuild
WYR1: I'm in a minority here, but I always loved the looks of the '60 Plymouths.
WYR2: I'm not a fan of the wagons of this period, but I'd write in the '57 Plymouth. The sedans and coupes looked better balanced to me.
1958 Plymouth wagon as long as it has 3 pedals
Of all the cars, I'd go for the '59 Dodge. The '58 Plymouth S/W would be my 2nd.
In a 60's Dodge truck(D-100 to D-300) through '66, the A-318 was the top engine. The 225 slant 6 was the base engine through the end of it's production(even in the D-300).
I had a 1965 Dodge D-300 flatbed with the A-318 V8/4-speed and it was strictly a flatland truck. It could haul practically anything. One time, and one time only, I had to take it into the mountains, hauling about 4 cords of firewood between the stake bed on the truck and pulling a trailer. Having to stop in the middle of the highway to downshift into compound 1st several times was no fun. Then came the downhill section. Engine braking didn't work and the brakes had a hard time slowing the truck. Luckily, I made it all the way down the hill, with white knuckles and being exhausted from steering. The only thing that saved me was as we entered a town, the road started going up again and I was able to stop the truck. When I got out, shaking profusely, I walked around the truck and trailer. Every wheel had smoke pouring out of the brakes. I've never been able to get a tan since! I learned my lesson and, although I still had to haul firewood into the mountains, it was on the truck, only. On flat ground, I hauled even more weight with the truck and trailer loaded with bags of dusting sulfur, but because of the poor brake design, it was 25 mph, tops. Hauling a fertilizer tender where the truck and trailer combo weighed about 25 tons was much easier.
There were also two very short-lived V8s in 1955. A 241 and a 260.
2001 was the last yr for the 318 atleast in the truck lineup. When the 02 models came out, they were an entirely different truck. Daimler Chrysler at that time totally changed the engine options. Gone was the 318 and 360 for a German design and the sheet metal was a total change. 2001 was the last yr of the second Gen Ram atleast in the half ton series. In late 2001 when the dealers were loaded up with the 02 models that I disliked greatly. I hid my disgust for a better price on one of the remaining 01’s , a Laramie quad cab nicely equipped with a 318. That was 23 yrs ago and I’m still driving that truck. It’s garage kept and still looks good and drives strong. I was Leary of the new unproven German design at the time and Chrysler probably made more 318’s than anything else and they had a solid reputation and to me the 2nd Gen models being replaced looked a whole lot better to me. And all these yrs later, I still like the way they look. The 2nd Gens, Either you loved them at first sight or Hated them. They were round, and radical when they first came out in 94, Either way, they got your attention. The look distinctive, no confusing this truck for any other. Today? I can’t tell a Ford From a Chevy at distance.what do they lack? Distinction.
A different 318 Chrysler has a complicated engine lineage they made two different 318s they also made a 318 LA that's the engine your thinking of
Hi Jay. Thanks for sharing this interesting info. WYR#1 1959 Dodge (like that one for some reason), #2 1956 Plymouth wagon. That's a pretty car.
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I briefly owned a 1967 Canadian built Dodge Polara with the A 318 (or was it a 313?) - production of the A engine was extended one year longer in (or for?) Canada than the US.
Chrysler was looking for a way to make a cheaper hemi without the cost and weight of using the double rocker arm shafts. The poly was their solution. Way back in the very early 70's, a buddy had a blue 63 Plymouth with the 318 poly 2bbl and Torque-Flite transmission. While it wasn't exactly fast, it did great burnouts and was way quicker than you would think. For the most part, those (in fact, all) 318s were pretty bulletproof. WYR- none, but I would take a 63 Sport Fury! NTT=???.
Lots to learn here, I would rather the 56 Plymouth model in both scenarios
My first 'driver' was a 66 Sport Fury with this 318. IIRC mine was a 2-barrel and it had awful fuel mileage. It was kind of torquey but not really that fast, likely due to the weight. It was also the first car I worked on courtesy of a friend who was a mechanic teaching me how to do things. I still wrench everything myself except auto trans work. For the life of me I can't remember what became of that car though I remember the next one and that I didn't trade in the Fury for it. Prior to this I had a 61(?) Rambler with a cracked block when I was too young to have a drivers license (which didn't stop me from driving it a few times in the neighborhod). WYR none of these appeal to me greatly, but the Dodge Coronet and the 62 Plymouth wagon will do.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience =)
56 Plymouth
62 Wagon if they're sold out of
DeSoto 😂 👍
Enjoy
Happy Motoring ✌️☺️
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The A 313 had the same 3.91" stroke as the A 318. The bore was smaller that is the only difference between the two engines.
Are these related to the Desoto V-8s they used to use at the Boneville Salt Flats?
Desoto different engine family
4:20 I think the specs for the 313 is wrong. It had a 3.31" stroke not 3.125".
Awesome thank you for that correction
Maybe I am mistaken. But wasn't the 1955 Windsor engine a version of the A Block? It was 301CI 188 hp. It was enlarged to 331Ci in 1956 230hp with a powerpac 250 available.
Different engine family Chrysler has a really complicated engine lineage just like Ford
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WYR: the 56 Fury already have had a 60 Savoy 4dr. maybe the 58 wagon...
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1956 Plymouth Fury
Best engine Chrysler never fully developed! We all call it poly...
56 Plymouth
58 Plymouth Wagon (neighbor had one when we were really little)
Not to get confused with the other poly engine Chrysler had a really confusing engine lineage but I am going to try to cover all of the engines eventually I really want to do one on the flathead six but that's a complicated one with tons of different engine displacements but one day it will be on here as well as the Chrysler flathead four
'59 Corner and the '58 Wagon!!!
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I'd take the '59 Coronet, and the '58 Plymouth wagon 😎
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If the Chrysler 301, 331, and 354 are from a different family of "a" engines please enlighten me.
Chrysler loved using the same engine displacements sizes in different engine families offered at about the same time for example they made a 426 hemi and a 426 wedge same displacement totally different engine
1959
60 Savoy and 58 Plymouth wagon
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56 Fury - 58 wagon
I'll take the "56" Fury!!!
Sweet choice
56 fury n 56 wagon
"56 Plymouth.
I'd choose the '56 Fury and the '62 Wagon but this era of Chrysler was not my favorite.
Sweet choice
60 Savoy .
🥝✔️
At 6 minutes and 28 seconds on this video. Is that the Golden Gate bridge in the back round? It is NOT painted red. What gives??
Nope, that's not it.
Heavy and gutless junk. My Dad had a 58 Plymouth wagon scrap heap. Never bought another POS Chrysler product. Looks like Crap Chryslers will finally be out of business. Stelantis is bankrupt. Good riddance Chrysler crap.
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