"...Up front there resides a much refined version of the Buick V8 first offered back
in 1953. The bore and stroke of this particular model is 4.1875 inches x 3.640 inches
or, in modern terms, a generous over-square design. From outward appearance the
blocks look identical to Buick's 425 cubic inch unit, but isn't, since the latter
is different to the extent that it incorporates webs and cooling passages. This situation
effectively nixes any possibility of boring the Skylark block and slipping in bigger buckets.
As it is the 401 aluminum pistons have a healthy enough compression at 10.25-to-1 to make
their presence felt..."
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"...And that's the way the afternoon went,
with the Buicks gobbling up everything in site, copping B, C, D, E, F and K classes for a
spectacular string of successes in a mixed field of sticks and automatics... The message
from these triumphs and others like them at Southern California tracks is stamped large
on the competition scene, for anyone who surveys the situation has to concede that Buick
will be the car to beat...wherever they run..."
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