But in '79, all their restyled models could only take V6s. The only hanger ons with the large hood length were the Camaro, it's sister car the Nova, and the Caprice.
Yep - those short nosed Malibu/El Caminos:
all got that poorly engineered hack-saw V6 - essentially a 350 with the back cylinders whacked off.
Interestingly the other divisions didn't make it to '79. Pontiac dropped the 250 with the Ventura after '77 introducing the Phoenix in '77. The Phoenix, Olds Omega and Buick Apollo all sported the Buick 231 V6 . . . some as early as '75.
