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1. Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: Jim Prettyleaf <jprettyleaf@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:53:01 -0800 (PST)
Okay I can appreciate a 454 snow blower, but check out the video clip located http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1135511300/Worlds_Largest_Chainsaw_ The power for this saw is either a 215 Buick alloy V8,
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00357.html (7,608 bytes)

2. Re: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: BillDentin@aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:48:32 EST
Aren't they all pretty much the same thing? I understood TRIUMPH bought the last 2,000 +/- alloy V8s Buick had, and used them to produce the TR8s. The engine then evolved into the Rover V8. At least
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00358.html (7,577 bytes)

3. Re: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "Charly Mitchel" <charly@mitchelplumbing.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:11:42 -0800
I believe the MGBGT V8 was produced prior to the TR7 V8, in about 1973. The car never really took off mainly because of the inner company competition. The story I've heard is it was going to very com
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00364.html (7,575 bytes)

4. Re: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:20:33 -0800
I was involved with this caper so do some inside info. For tax reasons and to satisfy the US government that they were not a monopoly in the auto industry, GM donated free of charge the tooling and r
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00367.html (7,510 bytes)

5. RE: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "BritBits" <BritBits@tiu.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:04:18 -0600
BMC or BL bought the rights from Buick (and tooling... etc) in the 60s and used them in the MGB in the early 70s (72/73ish).... then dropped the engine into the TR7. Since then it's appeared in most
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00368.html (7,367 bytes)

6. Re: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:18:23 -0800
He could well be correct. All you can know about that deal, unless you were at the table, is WHAT PEOPLE TELL YOU. People that you respect and believe are in the know. Frankly I can't see Rover spend
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00380.html (7,670 bytes)

7. RE: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:06:37 -0500
That is not the story I have heard. Someone else on the list supplied the story about the tooling and such being sold to Rover. That is what I understand to have happened. I got the story from the e
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00381.html (7,732 bytes)

8. Re: Could be TR-8 Powered Chainsaw (score: 1)
Author: "michael cook" <mlcooknj@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:40:23 -0500
Bruce McWilliams was head of Rover in the USA and is still around to tell the story. There is also a complete run-down in Graham Robson's book The Rover Story William Martin-Hurst was managing direc
/html/fot/2006-01/msg00408.html (8,071 bytes)


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