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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,091 Authorized Pest | | Authorized Pest Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,091 | You did a great job scanning it! It's all nice and even and easy to read. I don't get the cartoon? 
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804"Charlie" - The Stovebolt FlagshipIn the Gallery"Success comes in 'cans' ..." | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,881 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,881 | That cartoon reminds me of the night I showed up to teach a 10-week Community Education basic auto mechanics class and found six rookie engineers from the newly-opened Saturn assembly plant enrolled. Somebody in GM upper management decided they needed an introduction to FIXING cars, not just making them! It got pretty interesting! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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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!
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,084 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,084 | Matt .... awesome job !! many thanks for posting this, I definitely am placing in my archive. Nothing better than going back to real time info for the facts and thoughts at the time. Easy to get lost in the tech details and had to focus hard without the dyno curves, must have been hard to create back then. Very interesting points on solid vs. hydr lifters as the industry was figuring these out in production autos.
Peggy...I don't get the cartoon either, but Jerry's example is a good one. I think the instructor was a bit more infatuated than the audience.
Jerry...as long as they weren't knuckleheads and would listen to you, I bet those were some of your best students. Also guessing there was some learning both ways.
Allen
Yeah, well, that's just like, you know , your opinion, man - The Dude
1948 Chevy 3600 - goal Original restoration, Current Stage 1 - Disassembly and getting body in primer
1954 GMC 3100 goal Hot Rod, Current Stage 1 - Get body in primer
1931 Ford Model A 5 window Coupe - Old Skool Hot Rod
1945 Ford 2N Tractor - Runs great
1964 Ford 2000 Tractor - Use it every week
1974 Stingray Corvette
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,881 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,881 | These kids were brand new graduates of GM Technical Institute, where General Motors trains their own engineers. Most of them were 2nd. or 3rd. generation GM family members, with fathers or uncles way up in the chain of command with the company. Sharp kids, but they had no concept of maintenance after the cars were built. Yes, I think there was some learning on both sides!
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!
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