Last one to post in this thread wins!

I *believe* it was because they had discontinued using the right angle filter adapters, which allowed use of the longer (PH8A and similar) filters in A bodies. Without the adapters, they had to go to a shorter filter to clear everything.
I could be wrong; but it sounds good, right? :)
My car came without a right angle filter adapter. Needed one for header clearance with cheap *** appliance headers. The hooker headers I have now do not require a right angle adapter. Think it has to do with oil capacity maybe???????? It’s definitely not a clearance problem. Oh well only the infinite wisdom of the Chrysler engineers will know.