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Originally Posted by Stoney
283V8 was the stock mill in the Studebaker Hawk. They slapped a Paxton Supercharger on it and it would do 140 off the showroom floor.
My Mom got her first speeding ticket in one...She was clocked doing 125 on the Hutch Parkway in Westchester county.  |
Actually the supercharged engines were of studebaker manufacture and were all 289 I believe. Studebaker offered a 283 of Chevy manufacture in 65 and 66 after studebaker engine production ceased.
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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.