Strange SPID ?

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Not '67. No 454s existed in MY 1967. A mechanic at a brake & tire shop I used to frequent -- he got to be my ''regular'' -- was a USAF motor pool veteran.
He told me a school bus they had for ferrying the pilots from the Ready Room to the Flight Line had a 454. He was a driver one day, and caused a backfire when double-clutching that cracked the exhaust manifolds. Being Gov't Property, they took the cost of new GM exhaust manifolds out of his paycheck for a few months. *
As far as CUCVs, maybe the Army and Air Force might have gone with [327] 350/350 set ups? IDK. The Navy Dept believed cheapness counts so 250/3OTT was the rule.
*[Could be a Sea Story. What's the difference between a Sea Story and a Fairy Tale? Fairy Tales start out with ''...Once upon a time..." Sea Stories begin: "Thus is a true story, No $hit..."]
I think the U-2 program had an El Camino with a 454 for running down the runway alongside the plane on landings. Driver radioed ground speeds to the pilot who couldn't see much runway due to the long nose.
'68 C/10 Stepside w/396 for a FOLLOW ME truck? Yeah, sure... True story, no $hit...

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