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I heard it didn't make it past the prototype stage
By Dave Shoe - 10/15/2001 9:22:17 AM; IP 216.243.158.147
The intake/air cleaner system may have been available over the counter at some point, but I heard the 400 horse MEL 430 tripower engine never actually made it onto the production line.

It was heavily advertised as a late 1958-1/2 "police option", but I think I read somewhere that the months kept slipping by and it was never actually released for sale on the production line. It was apparently not advertised for 1959. I suspect it may have been available for sale "over the counter", possibly in the early 1959 model year, but that's just guessing based on the logic of what I read. I don't know it was ever available over the parts counter.

I suspect my info source was a Motor Life magazine blurb of the time period.

Shoe.
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I heard it didn't make it past the prototype stage -- Dave Shoe, 10/15/2001
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