Technology

Buick's venerable V-6

GM executives and the famous V-6, in 1976 (from left): Roger Smith, Howard Kehrl, Richard Terrell, Thomas Murphy, Pete Estes, Jim McDonald and Reuben Jensen. A 1976 Buick Regal is in the background.
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By:
Don Sherman
September 14, 2008 05:00 AM

General Motors President Ed Cole was on a mission. Upon hearing that Buick engineers had dusted off their V-6 in response to the October 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, he demanded a test drive.

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