Quote Originally Posted by Hotrod46
A little OT, but it's amazing how much that 51 Cad V8 looks like a small block Chevy. When I first glanced at the picture, that's what I thought it was.

Seems like I remember reading that the same engineers worked on both engines in the 40's and 50's and that the Chevy was just a refinement of the Cad design.

That would be Ed Cole, brilliant engineer/manager who led the transformation of Chevrolet from a stodgy family car to performance legend. If you do a web search there are lots of articles/bios enumerating his move from Cad to Chev in the early 50's.