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The Last Big-Block Chevy Was Built Today at the Downsized Tonawanda Engine Plant
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We'll remember it as "The day the thunder died"
So bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing "WHO WAS THE IDIOT THAT KILLED THE BIG BLOCK?"
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Sad day indeed.....you would think that with all the PR/brand image that motor gave the General over the last 45 years, someone (anyone there??) at the top would have employed a more dignified swan song
The King is Dead, long live the King :'(a.k.a. - arrowhead from joysey
"They're no good for you. all they ever think about are cars" (GTO/Warren Oates) - Two Lane Blacktop
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While I am a fan of the LS series of motors and some of them are rather torquey,it seems wrong for there not to be a BIG BLOCK option for a truck. Double cab duallie w/even just two wheel drive with a car trailer/horse trailer (pick your poision) just seems to need one!
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Originally posted by HoosierGTAWhile I am a fan of the LS series of motors and some of them are rather torquey,it seems wrong for there not to be a BIG BLOCK option for a truck. Double cab duallie w/even just two wheel drive with a car trailer/horse trailer (pick your poision) just seems to need one!
and with ls engines at 6.2 liters now,
sad day indeed, but the greenies are happy as a clam (bastards)
be there is a run on bowtie blocks, and they sell out of them soon
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Its a sad day for New York as well. People think of Detroit as the home of American muscle but, as a New Yorker its cool to know how much Bow-tie HP came from our state over the years.
Once all this Global Warming sham is over, maybe us Americans can get back to building big inch OEM powerplants again.Jeremy George in Windsor NY
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I grew up on rat and mouse motors like just about everyone else in their 30's and up, and they will always occupy a really warm, fond place in my heart, but LS engines ARE amazing, and rat motors had been frankenstein-like propositions since they started screwing with the archetectures in the 1990's. There was a time when all I wanted in the world was one of those 454SS pickups in the 90's, until I saw the power ratings after they had de-tuned the poor motor...
RIP Tonawanda and thanks for almost 50 years of awesomeness.
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Originally posted by Super SportI grew up on rat and mouse motors like just about everyone else in their 30's and up, and they will always occupy a really warm, fond place in my heart, but LS engines ARE amazing, and rat motors had been frankenstein-like propositions since they started screwing with the archetectures in the 1990's. There was a time when all I wanted in the world was one of those 454SS pickups in the 90's, until I saw the power ratings after they had de-tuned the poor motor...
RIP Tonawanda and thanks for almost 50 years of awesomeness.
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