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Here is what I read about the Hemi 245, like the 510 badge in the US, it appears the manufacturer used the word "Hemi" to sell the unsuspecting public vehicles that were not actually what they claim them to be, Welcome to the marketing machine.

 

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The Hemi-6 is a pushrod O.H.V. (overhead valve engine), with combustion chambers comprising about 35% of the top of the globe. This creates what is known as a low hemispherical shaped chamber. Although the Hemi-6 does not contain truly hemispherical combustion chambers, the "Hemi" moniker was used primarily for its marketing cachet based on the reputation of Chrysler's 1950s-1970s (true) Hemi V8 engines.

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I remember the early hemi. Kid in school, his dad ran a gravel pit and in the 50s bought a new Chrysler every year. There were 6-8 cars sitting behind the shop with low miles. We popped the hood on one and it had massive valve covers with plug wires (covered) up the length of it. The weird thing was it was an automatic but had a clutch pedal.

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10 minutes ago, datzenmike said:

I remember the early hemi. Kid in school, his dad ran a gravel pit and in the 50s bought a new Chrysler every year. There were 6-8 cars sitting behind the shop with low miles. We popped the hood on one and it had massive valve covers with plug wires (covered) up the length of it. The weird thing was it was an automatic but had a clutch pedal.

so it must have been a manual automatic ???

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2 minutes ago, datzenmike said:

Automatics were in their infancy and there were lots of experimental things going on. The clutch was used when stopped and on take offs. 

 

Sort of like the early VW semi automatic transmission [AKA known as the transmission that could not be rebuilt].  It shifted through first and second automatically but had to be manually shifted into third to hit open road speeds.

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Some of the '50 Olds and Buicks didn't start with the ignition key. You turn to ON and when you step on the gas the starter engages. A vacuum signal? would turn the starter off.

 

Late '50s Olds had a bar graph style speedometer that changed color as you went faster...

 

 

A friend had one and another (somewhat dimmer one) wanted to see it work so we took it out and above 60 it turns red. So he says what happens if you go faster? Driver says.. at 90 a skull and cross bones lights up. The other guy says Let's see!!!!

 

 

The automatic selector is

 

PARK

N

S  (second)

L (low)

REVERSE

 

If in a hurry to jam in low to race someone it was easy to money shift into reverse.

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3 hours ago, Ranman72 said:

damn weird car stuff 

they had some strange stuff back then 

 

Studebaker and Borg Warner teamed up to produce a "Hill Holder" transmission that kept the car in gear when stopping on an incline with your foot off the gas and proceeded to go forward when given a little gas.  Lately some manufacturers are promoting a version of this as if it were a new feature.  What goes around comes around ?

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20 minutes ago, MikeRL411 said:

 

Studebaker and Borg Warner teamed up to produce a "Hill Holder" transmission that kept the car in gear when stopping on an incline with your foot off the gas and proceeded to go forward when given a little gas.  Lately some manufacturers are promoting a version of this as if it were a new feature.  What goes around comes around ?

that is pretty cool 

things that make it different and kind of cool

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