[DMCForum] Re: AMC 390

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

Interesting.... I wonder if perhaps DeLorean was considering a setup 
close to the AMX/3?

Knowing DMC's facination with buying rear, and mid-engined cars to 
study, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if DMC was testing mock-ups 
with the AMC 390 & the Italian built transaxle that it used, in 
prototype cars.

It would be very interesting to see a DeLorean with a 390ci V8. But 
with a true rear-engine set up that we currently use, it'd also be 
dangerous as all hell.

I'm sure that there are things out there with the DeLorean that we'll 
never know. Mainly because what we do know about the engineering of the 
prototype cars has been sourced almost soley on one book: "Stainless 
Steel Illusion." Dammit. I wish we could have known about stuff like 
this before talking with Bill Collins... If this is true about the AMC 
engines, it would certainly have changed the course of history. 
DeLorean would have built the muscle car for the 80's, and would have 
kept the company aflot *if* there were any hard times, soley on his own 
reputation.

-Robert



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxx> wrote:
> I talked to a guy on Saturday and he said he worked at the Kenosha, 
> Wisconsin AMC plant and he shipped 7 AMC 390 Crate engines to 
Delorean 
> around 1978-1979.
> 
> I explained they never used the 390's and he said he knew this 
because 
> they were only released with the 2.8PRV.
> 
> He was very educated in the Delorean but wanted to know if i knew why 
> they wanted 7 390 AMC crate engines. He thought maybe they were 
> prototype test engines because he heard there were several engines 
they 
> were thinking about before the settled on the PRV, i said i had no 
info 
> on that.
> 
> Mark V

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