[ChevLoRay]

When I was in 'Nam, we had an opportunity to go to Bangkok for 3 days. While there, I also had an opportunity to do the floating market tour and did. The boat we were on resembled the tugboat in the Golden Book about the Little Tug Boat, but the engine in it was a single-cylinder diesel. Don't know if it was a 2 or 4-cycle, but it was a diesel.

On the island of Taiwan, their common "truck" was a three-wheeled vehicle that did have a single-cylinder 2-stroke diesel. It would putt-putt-putt as it went down the road at some ungodly speed of 15MPH. They carried a stack of rice in burlap bags that had to be 8-ft high in the bed of the truck.

I drove a Gamma Goat in the Army Guard. It had a 3-53 diesel in it. I wanted to find one and put it in a Chevy truck to hook up to an SM420 or SM465 gearbox.

I love to listen to one of the Detroit Diesel engines in the big trucks of the sixties/seventies. Somebody posted a YouTube link on here where one of them was accelerating away from the camera. It was cool.

But the basis for this post is the little 153 gasoline 4-banger, later known by Pontiac as the Iron Duke, and installed in Astre's (Pontiac's version of the Vega).