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Originally Posted by klaus kallas
So still not daily driver material, but the engine is looking better. Nicer parts, rewire, and paint under the hood will come after I make sure this will go...
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In case you didn't know, many of these cars sent to the US used an early THM400 or its predecessor.
There was a deal whereby GM Truck and Bus sent supposedly redone units from GM Hydramatic to the factories for shipmnent here, although some were done here as well.
Same was done, believe it or not, with some Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows with ATs.
My formerly-owned 1960 model was that way.
All this had to do with the post war treaties which did not allow the Germans to make a V-8 passenger car until 20 years after the war.
This was in the same treaty to the defeated parties that gave the Borgward and BMW companies more steel than DB because DB had used Zwangarbeiter, aka forced labor from camps, in their plants.
Didn't matter. DB ate up Borgward and bought BMW before selling it to the Quandt family in the 1960s.
Any surprise when the first V8 Benz cars came out? Mid 1960s?
