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Old 03-09-2015, 12:19 PM   #10
mr48chev
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Re: Hole through oil pan

They blow up good too. Probably pretty well worn before you got it.

Reminds me of when I was younger and my friend's dad insisted that he get a car that a little widow lady had in town because the dad insisted it was in perfect condition because "it had never been driven out of town or hot rodded". He wanted a local 55 Chevy that was known to have been driven pretty hard. Anyhow after about three weeks of driving around he took it out on the road and opened it up and blew the rods in the engine. When the pan came off the engine there was about two inches of sludge in the pan because in it's whole life the engine had never gotten fully warmed up. It got driven about 10 miles a week for 15 years and those miles were less than two at a time. Once to church and back, to the store on Wednesday, beauty shop on Thursday and garden club once a month was about it. The car got the oil changed about once a year and had a tune up once a year needed or not.
His dad still thought that any used car with highway miles wasn't any good and swore how perfect that car had been before my buddy "ruined" it.
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