The year 1949 was a big one for GM. Both Oldsmobile and Cadillac introduced overhead valve V8 engines and with that, the Detroit horsepower race was fully on. It is said that the Oldsmobile version was introduced ahead of the Cadillac variant because if something in the design were to fail...
close of the Second World War, over 300 rail cars filled with V-2 engines, fuselages, propellant tanks, gyroscopes and associated equipment were brought to the railyards in Las Cruces, New Mexico, so they could be placed on trucks and driven to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New ...