Those Studebaker V8s are incredibly strong (if not incredibly powerful). They were designed to run as much as 14:1 compression, as the engineers were convinced that in just a few years we would have plentiful very high octane gas available.
Speaking of auto trans innovations, my 53 Commander Starliner has a lock up torque converter. I don't think GM did the lock up thing until the 80s. Could be wrong on that.... haven't researched it.
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