The vulnerable 235

What is it about this engine that fascinates me?

I don’t know if is the simplistic nature of it or the
fact that if it will turn over it will run. Could it be
the endless amounts of early, and very rare,
speed equipment that make them so pleasing?

Starting at the beginning of the automotive age
when most were using a valve in block design,
GM went for a daring new way to make the gas
explode. Over head valves. While they were not
the first, in 1929 they introduced the 194 CI over
head valve inline 6 and a love affair was born.

This breakthrough led way in 1937 for the
216 Stovebolt and again in 1941 with the 235.
While the 235 was only produced in large trucks
for some time, it was introduced into
passenger cars in 1950, but only for the Powerglide
transmission. In 1954 we saw it become the
standard in Chevrolet cars till 1962.

Why do I love it so? It might be for the same
reasons that guys that made products like Wayne,
Howard, Edmunds, Fenton, McGurk, Niscon,
Tatersfield, and my favorite, Sharp loved them so much.


They are just cool.