On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:44:06 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 07/27/2018 07:23 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
Cast iron. OMG. This one is aluminum, thank God. And 2WD. And I had taken
all the fluid out. So it was a light as it was going to get, and still, I
wouldn't do that job without a transmission jack.

The 3 and 4 speed transmissions with aluminum housings don't weigh that
much. Particularly when you're twenty.

The Chrysler otoh was a piece of work. It was very early in the
development of automatics so it had both a clutch and a fluid coupling.

Not an automatic at all - the infamous "fluid drive" or "Hy-Drive"
transmissin.

Put it in high, floor it, and 0 to 30 in about 65 seconds - - - Shift
it like a "normal" standard and it was significantly quicker, but
still slow compared to a standard.

https://www.allpar.com/mopar/m6.html

The moment of truth was when I took the whole weight and realized I
might be going for a personal best bench press.

You want to do it with a cast iron powergglide in a '60 Biscayne - -
DON'T try it with a Dynaglyde!!!!! - -

The rest of the car followed suit. It was a straight 8, cast iron block
of course. No power steering. It was pleasant on the highway but my wife
used words I didn't think she knew trying to parallel park the beast.

They don't make cars like that anymore. Thank the Gods. At about 4500
pounds 0 to 60 took a while.

Thne heaviest flathead 8 Chrysler ( not Imperial or Town and Country)
was the 47 Saratoga 4 door - at a sprightly3972 lbs with the TC New
Yorker coming in at 4344.



The '49 Crown Imperial limo tipped the scakes at almost 5300.

. My '62 Continental weighed in over 5000

4927 for the sedan, 5215 for the ragtop

pounds but it had a modern 430 ci V-8 and was a supercar compared to a
flat head straight 8 that was designed in the early '30s.