[Tigers] Odd off subject Question... Hit delete now....

[e.coiner at cox.net]

Ford made some very low compression engines. They were sold to third world markets where the gasoline was very low octane.
They have a unique Vin code letter.

Erich
---- Larry Mayfield via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote: 
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> I have a neighbor about a block and a half away from me and he has a 1964
> Mercury 2 door hardtop, same style as used in auto racing.   I was curious
> to see what engines were available that year and saw that the NASCAR 427
> Ford Side Oilers were available in either single (Q code) or double Carbs (R
> code). While I was looking at the list of available engines, I spotted some
> engines shown as both low compression like this: 8-260 low compression and
> the other as simply 8-260. Different vin codes as well.  So, is there one
> among us who actually knows what the difference is?  Besides the 260 cid,
> all of the other listed engines  had low comp engines listed also.  And why,
> I wonder. 
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> Just curious.
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> larry
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