re: Buick - BMW?

[Kent Christensen <lkchris@uswest.net>]

Our favorite V8 descended from BMW?

It's probably a little the opposite, i.e., the BMW may have
taken ideas from early GM V8s such as the '49 Olds.  No
question that BMW's V8 was aluminum and came just a few
years before GM's, and this timeline may create the rumors.
No mention of a BMW connection in the "bible," i.e., David
Hardcastle's "The Rover V8 Engine."  He does mention some
early-50s GM aluminum engine experiments possibly related to
pushing from Alcoa and predating the BMW.