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- From: wesf@boi.hp.com (Wes Fujii)
- Subject: Re: what does 4x4 mean?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:09:54 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec19.4171.23990@dosgate>
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- "mike knox" (mike.knox@canrem.com) wrote:
- :
- : In Message-ID: <1992Dec18.185118.452#nosc.mil>,
- : koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
- :
- : >>I hope this is not a stupid question, but I have been wondering exactly
- : >>where the term 4x4 (four by four) came from.
- :
- : >so -- 'A'x'B' is interpreted as: 'A'-total-wheels with 'B'-wheels-powered.
- : >and as alluded to above, the designation has military origins.
- :
- : I had wondered if that might be it, but it could have been 4-speed or
- : 4-barrel or anything else with a '4' in it!
-
- You are getting confused with Oldsmobile's 4-4-2 which was:
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- 4 barrel carb, 4 speed tranny and 2 (dual) exhausts.
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- then it was revised a few years later to:
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- 4 (400) cu in engine, 4 barrel and 2 (dual) exhausts.
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- Then the energy crisis hit in the early '70s and 4-4-2 was nothing more
- than just a name. Most had only the 4 barrel carb, some had 400's or
- 455's and after '74 none had dual exhausts. Sad...
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- That's like the 98's used to be on a 90 series (large) frame, and they
- had 8 cylinder engines. How many 98's of today fit that description?
-
- Wes Fujii
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