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Oresnik's Chevy Truck Passes Million-mile Mark

Frank Oresnik's Chevy truck dubbed 'old girl'really  humbling,  all  this  interest."
recently passed the one million-mile mark
thanks  to  an  engine  built  in  Flint.Oresnik passed the million-mile mark Feb. 8
in southeastern Wisconsin while on his way
"This engine is a real marvel," Oresnik saidback home to Catawba, located in Price
in a telephone interview with The FlintCounty, about an hour west of Rhinelander,
Journal. "It keeps this truck going andreported MLive. "I won't say it was relief
going. I'm a complete booster of the job your... it was exhilarating," he said later
men  and  women  did  on  my  engine."during a stop in Gresham. "This truck has
been  so  dependable  over  the  years."
Officials at General Motors Corp. said the
engine in Oresnik's Chevy Silverado wasOresnik said there has been some interested
manufactured at the former Flint V-8 Enginein General Motors or Shell Oil buying the
Plant off Van Slyke Road, which ceasedtruck. But he said he has interest in taking
production in 1999 and was demolished a yeara roadtrip to Michigan and meeting workers
thereafter.who built the engine in Flint as well as
those  who  assembled  his  truck in Pontiac.
The durability of the engine is not
surprising to V-8 workers. Actually, some ofJohn Crabtree, Flint Engine South's plant
them are still building said engines at Flintmanager, said in an e-mail that Oresnik would
Engine South, a plant situated on the samenot be disappointed if he visited some of the
General Motors property. "They were good"greatest engine building talent in the world
engines," UAW Local 659 shop chairman Joetoday."
Ledford said of the V-8 that powered
Oresnik's truck. "That's all we've ever done"I was extremely proud to be the plant
is  build  engines."manager of the V-8 plant," Crabtree
concluded. "Whether we're talking about the
Oresnik has been in the news for quite aeight cylinders that we built then, the
while now. He hit the one million-mileworld-class six cylinders that the same
milestone in southeastern Wisconsin with aworkforce makes today, or any engine that GM
National Public Radio audience listening inneeds for tomorrow. ...This is just another
and a camera crew filming. "I can't tell youreminder that our Flint South team is always
how much fun it was," Oresnik noted. "It wasup to the challenge.



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