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Originally Posted by RonC5
In the early 80's GM eliminated redundancy in the corporate line up by replacing the Olds 260 and 307, the Pontiac 301 and the Buick 350 with a generic GM small block, a version of the Chevy 305. Lawsuits were file when the consumers discovered this. GM stopped associating engines with particular divisions, and today all GM engines are produced by "GM powertrain" (GMPT) and are called GM "Corporate" engines.
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The last of the old Poncho engines left the line in '78, appearing in the '79 F bird for the last time, as most of them had the Olds 400 in there.....the Pontiac 301 was a vastly cut down 350, and even appeared with a turbo? some sort of packer on it.....but the cut down was done cheep, they simply cut the block deck off, and used some silly gaskets to make up for the top web/deck they blew gaskets faster than my ex wife.....
I could see the obvious end of the divisions in GM back in the 80's when a chebby engine was across the board, and Olds 350's got into Sevilles, even back in the 70's
