The whole conversation thread is a Chicken and the Egg reality. There are still many inline engines out there. They will all eventually go to the scrapyard unless they can be made popular choices to put in cars.
The only way they can overcome that is to have a host of cool parts available to them as not too many people (at least here) wants a plane jane stock engine, when you can buy parts for more popular V8s.
So thanks currently to all of these little companies that believe in these engines and keep up the production. I am sorry i called you "Cottage Companies".
Maybe just maybe some big player will take note and realize how many of the Late Chevy or Ford Inliners there are out there and the potential to modify them.
If not so be it. We will find a way to survive!!!
