I seem to remember some of the farm equipment manufacturers using Chevy V8's in combines and other big pieces of equipment. I'll bet some enterprising farmer scavenged the engine out of a junk combine for his truck!
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!
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