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WarGamer

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12. In the olden days...

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:35 PM

Mar 28

Engine Blocks were nicknamed after the City that were MADE IN... as in where they CASTED THE IRON BLOCKS and HEADS.

Lima, Cleveland, Windsor...

Anyone who insists that we can't do that work is wrong.

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Then MAYBE... WarGamer Mar 27 #10

good lord, my father was a UAW autoworker, Im sure he's rolling in his grave. Meadowoak Mar 28 #11

In the olden days... WarGamer Mar 28 #12