VVIAVI Eights began with the new Traveler, New Yorker, and Saratoga on a 128.5-inch span (the last two also offered formal sedans). New Yorker offered 280 bhp via a bored-out 354 Hemi. The 125-inch C-23 Imperial included New Yorker coupes and sedans and a brace of Saratogas. The year's main new technical gimmick was optional "Vacamatic" transmission, a semiautomatic with two Low and two High gears; you shifted only to go between the ranges. Instead of sending road shock into the chassis or body like coil or leaf springs, torsion bars absorbed most of it by twisting against their mounts. It didn't catch on and thus was dropped after '69. For 1965 came Engel's smooth, squarish bodies with fenders edged in bright metal, one of his signatures. A stroked 400-cid version of the 383, more adaptable to emissions tuning, replaced it for '72, then disappeared with the 360 and all Royal models.|Pertempuran Laut Guadalkanal