The ancestor of the Buick V6 is the Buick 215 V8, an innovative lightweight V8 with aluminum block and heads that debuted in 1961. This engine turned into iron and gained much displacement with GM ...
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Back in the 1950s, GM began to fiddle around with aluminum engines, and one gem that came to life in all the turmoil that followed was the Buick 215 cu in V8, the one and the same that was laid to ...