Dodge didn't but didn't stop them from making a brand new factory that made better R-3350s than the ones C-W was building
Huh. I guess, with the wartime incentives to build new factories, if the management is inclined to, they can do just about whatever they like.
That being true, there might just be Ford-Griffon Mustangs (& Spitfires?) before WW2 ends.
After the war, what happens to Dodge? I'm thinking first musclecar (equal to the GTO, but a Valiant with, say, a 325 poly V8; I'd go bigger, to a 340 or 392, if I thought Dodge would build it), first 1hp/cid, & a NASCAR team that would giver the Hudson Hornets a run for their money. I'm thinking Ford has the *Road Runner at entry level, if the *Chevelle doesn't take that slot.
I'd also love to see a Dodge poly be the standard Top Fuel engine...but maybe Chrysler still beats them with the hemi--unless Ford's *Ardun OHV/hemi gets there before both of them... That just might mean the SB Chevy gets butterflied

...in favor of the Olds, frex, or maybe the Buick. (A Buick V8 being the SB of choice: lighter than any of the rest, & more common, & parts cheaper...?


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Can Dodge be one of the core companies of *AMC in the '50s? Along with Hudson, Packard, Nash, & Stude (& Willys?)? (I like the idea of Dodge & Packard quality together--&, frankly, of Packard surviving.

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I'm also thinking, if I haven't said so yet, there'd have to be something like a Cad Corvette to answer the '30s *T-bird.

Does it end up with the Sting Ray treatment? Or does Cad go the 4-seater route? Does Packard? (I tend to think they'd be more conservative, given their customer base--but they'll have to deal with Baby Boomers sooner or later...) Or are GM & Ford (& Dodge & Chrysler, for all that) offering 2- & 4-seaters across the price range?

(A 2-seat Lincoln *T-bird, & a Cad *'vette, & the Olds *F88?

And a 4-seater Chevy & Buick *'vette, like the proposed Biscayne? {Or does Buick get the "boy racer", higher-profit, version?})
The early appearance of the *T-bird & *'vette will only hurt Jag sales in the U.S. in the '50s... Not to mention Triumph's & MG's.
Can *AMC (I hesitate to propose Willys doing it, but...) build the first *ponycar? Or, conversely, the first musclecar? The
Willys Aero is the right size, lacking only the big (relatively) V8. I'm not at all sure the "theft" of the Jeep from W-O can be butterflied...but if it can, there might be the money to introduce a "fun car" equivalent to the 'stang postwar. (Doing it on something more like the Henry J or Rambler American platform would be better, IMO, than the Aero's; can Nash & Willys, & Hudson, merge? The small Nash-based chassis & the Hudson power, with the Aero styling, & race breeding...

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Or, in all that, is my vision for what the car market looks like too limited?
Also, borrowing from the Slant-4 thread, if Willys/Nash does produce a "musclecar", does that encourage a Dodge poly slant 4 based on the tooling (if not the material) of the 325 (or *340, or *392?)?