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Ah HA!!! So he WAS considering a Buick! The little 215 cid Alum engine at the time was an interesting piece of work.
I recall the one production year the new Buick Grand National turbo'd V6 was FASTER than the Corvette in 0 to 60 time. It was something about the Vette automatic trans shifting right at 55 or so and that would MOMENTARILY delay the Vette just long enough for the Buick to post a better time 0-60. The Vette would win overtake the Buick shortly thereafter. BUT, the auto mags and the public take that 0-60 time pretty serious, and the botton line was,,,,,the Buick was faster.
GM had a cow over that! NO WAY any car in the fleet could be faster than the "mighty vette". Buick was ordered to "cool it" and come into line with the GM thinking process.
You think Carroll would have followed such orders? A C.S. and Chevy relationship would never have worked out in the long run.
Ernie
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