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The '63 Tempest was a disaster. To make a 4 cylinder engine they took a 389 V8 and sliced the block in half, producing a slant 4 with terrible inbalance problems. Quelling the vibrations was why they had to use the "torque tube," which was essentially a piece of rope inside a metal tube.

Last car show I went to I was parked next to a black vert. The owner said it was one of about 2,000, which is not very many in any year but particularly in that era when Impalas and Galaxies were selling 400,000 per year.