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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
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Subject: Re: Rover lump
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 13:39:15 EDT
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>By the way, I believe that the 3.5 liter Rover engine is a very close relative
>of an Oldsmobile unit. Anybody got the full story?

I think this is the whole story, but it is possible I'm wrong.  The 3.5 liter
V8 that appears in the Rovers (and in TR8s, and  couple of other English cars
I think) was bought by BMC from Buick in the late-middle '60s.  It was used
in middle of the road sedans but Buick didn't really need to put a aluminum
V8 in sedans and with the advent of pollution requirements they decided to not
update the engine and instead sold the tooling to BMC.

Peter Barbee