Oil slinger engines in trucks won WW II- - - - -along with millions of civilian vehicles that were produced from the mid 1930's to the mid-1950's. People drove them "a lot" back then. My grandfather supplied a lot of the beer consumed in Nashville with a couple of 1934/35 Chevy tractor-trailers on a regular run from Milwaukee and St. Louis in the late 1930's, with engines a lot more primitive than a 216. What's different now?
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!