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Originally Posted by 320touring
you folks like to seem to be "american" in your approach to displacement  |
I think the Aussies love their V8s more than us Americans. After all, GM did bring that car to America and called it GTO. First released with the 5.7L LS1 and then getting a bump to the 6.0L LS2. I had no idea they came in station wagons...and I like it!! The last wagon GM made for the American market was the Buick Roadmaster/Caprice Caprice in the Mid 1990s. Australians also love our El Caminos but they call them Utes and didn't stop making them in 1987 like GM did in America...Americans don't need car-trucks they just need big, gas guzzler pickups and SUVs
Those V6s do LOVE to eat head gasket due to those engines being some of the first GM made with iron block and aluminum head...differing expansion rates tore up the gaskets.
Nice car and congrats on getting your license back
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-Mike
2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014
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