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This wasn't lost on Chevrolet's engineers, who managed to up the horsepower in 1956 from 162 hp to 225 hp with optional add-ons. [12] For 1956 the 265 cid V8 engine was modified to include an integral oil filter, with a range of power choices from 162 HP for the base V8 up to 240 HP for R.P.O. 411 "Super Power Pack" offered mid-year.
Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex-Gibson executive Ted McCarty. In 1999, the brand was acquired by Gretsch from McCarty, which owned it until 2019, when Bigsby was sold to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation .
The palm pedal was invented by Boomer Castleman, an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, who designed the prototype in 1968. [1] Bigsby was the manufacturer of this product in the early 1970s. Pro Palm Pedals, a company in Nashville, manufactured palm pedals from 2009 to 2016, when owner Kenny Clark, closed the business, to pursue his ...
After the Bigsby, the next major development was Leo Fender's synchronized tremolo, the device that introduced the term tremolo arm (U.S. patent 2,741,146 filed in 1954, issued in 1956). [22] First released in 1954 on Fender 's Stratocaster , the simple but effective design offers a greater range of pitch change than the Bigsby, and a better ...
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) [1] [2] was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar. Bigsby is best known for designing the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (also mislabeled as a tremolo arm ) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars .
The NFL playoff schedule is about to be set, with the wild-card dates and times for every matchup to be revealed during Week 18.
A Brooklyn homeless shelter employee was brutally stabbed to death on the premises of a hotel converted to house the homeless, in the Brownsville neighborhood.
Chevrolet Nomad is a nameplate used by Chevrolet in North America from the 1950s to the 1970s, applied largely to station wagons. Three different Nomads were produced as a distinct model line, with Chevrolet subsequently using the name as a trim package .