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