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 Posted: 10-24-2019 11:13 pm
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 You're correct; '75 & later cars had all the "pollution" stuff on it, air pump, injectors, cast iron header, blah, blah, blah.
Since this was an "added" expense to Jensen, you'll find a tremendous amount of cars produced in December '74, just to avoid this expense.
'74 1/2 was the start of the "5 mph bumpers" for all cars(I call ours "55mph" bumpers) with chassis #18320. Jensen still used the Chrysler 4 speed for 630 cars(up to chassis #18950) when the much tougher Gettrag 5speed was put in(we call these '74 3/4).
Not sure what chassis # started the '75s, so someone please add on to this.
bruce