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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades
Mike, De Sotos are all beginning "S" 1941 begins S8S and S8C.
With a 3 7/16" bore the stroke was 4 1/2" to get 250 Cu.in.
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The wartime 1941 DeSoto and Dodge utes and scarce sedans assembled here with Richards bodywork were actually all Plymouth's in diguise.
The genuine DeSoto as seen in Nth America wasn't sold here. Instead they imported the el cheapo Canadian Plymouth ( probably as CKD ) and re-badged them as DeSoto and Dodge, the front guards and grills are a giveaway. Hence the odd engine prefix "SP" .
My DeSoto ute in 1981 ( cost me $80 ) with the SP 218ci engine , you can see the Plymouth lines in the guards and grill. Why they bothered to re-badge them is beyond me, they could easily sold them all as Plymouths.