squeakie:
Bgrigg:
I love automotive history! 
Chevy was late to the V-8 party with Cadillac and Oldsmobile offering V-8s before them, but not as late as Ford, who didn't make one until 1920 for use in the Lincoln, and didn't offer a V-8 in a Ford badged car until the famous Flathead of 1932. Chrysler was even later with the Firepower V-8 engine first offered in 1951.
The V-8 was first conceived as a marine and aviation engine, but which automobile manufacturer was the first to mate a V-8 to a car, and in what year?
seems like I read somewhere that Ford actually bought Lincoln way back. If so was the 1920 car a Ford product or still a Lincon product? Also didn't Chrysler offer a V8 in 1949? (I'm too lazy to check). Also Cadillac offered a V8, as well as a V16 way back before WWII. Marmon did a V16, and maybe did a V8 as well.
gary
Gary, read the posts previous to the one you quoted, and note that I am saying that Cadillac and Oldsmobile offered V-8s BEFORE Chevy did. Cadillac as early as 1914, before WWI, in fact!
The Chrysler Firepower was the first V-8 offered in any Chrysler, Dodge or Plymouth product. Prior to that they only had straight 8s. I did check.
Ford didn't actually buy out Lincoln until 1922 so my comment above is incorrect only in that the Lincoln offering in 1920 was purely a Lincoln product. Even if Ford had owned Lincoln, it was still badged as a Lincoln engine, and Ford didn't offer a V-8 in a Ford badged product until 1932.