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How many Mopar V8, slant six, four-cylinder engines: Trenton production
Feb 4, 2025
How many Mopar V8, slant six, four-cylinder engines: Trenton production year by year
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hi I'm Dave and I wanted to talk a
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little bit about Trenton engine and what
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they made and when they made it I talk
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about will be model Years starting with
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1957 when they made fewer than 10,000
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engines uh before this and Mound Road
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opened up they made all the engines at
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the factories and now they centralized
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it 1958 they managed to multiply that by
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10 times they're up to 100,000 but they
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didn't reach their stride until 1959
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when they made nearly 200,000 V8s but
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then there were some big changes and
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that was adding the slant 6 in 1960 and
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the slant 6 in its first year had over
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400,000 made at Trenton engine which
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dwarfed the fewer than 180,000 V8s and
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was double the plant's previous
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production just for sixes and that
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continued with roughly 400,000 made for
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the next two years V8 stayed under
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200,000 until 63 when V8s went over uh
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200 100,000 but the slant 6 went to half
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a million so the graph shows you with
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the V8s in Orange and the slant 6's in
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green how Chrysler fared from year to
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year and how Trenton fared two great
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years 1968 and 69 and then things don't
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do as well and finally we get the
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Volkswagen 1.7 for the Omni and Horizon
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it was just a stop Gap until the 2.2
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which you see in purple and the 2.5
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which you see in dark purple push
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pushing all those Reliance and minivans
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and Aries and omnis and Horizons and all
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the other ones around so there is a
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little history of Trenton until 1990 and
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of course then the V6 came in and
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Trenton got a new lease on life and it
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is still making gobs and gobs of pentar
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V6 engines high quality uh very durable
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nice output staying true to their
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history as the Builders of excellent
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engines
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