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Originally Posted by RonC5
Late 70's-early 80's GM had the infinite wisdom to rush to market a passenger car diesel. Said diesel was a quick conversion from the GM small block gas engine, which is why they were enormously popular and why you see so many of them still on the road today.
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Yep, after the first big oil crisis in '73, GM jumped in with diesel engines for for big cars like Olds. Prob was that the 350 engine wasn't beefy enough and they were a consant maintenance headache besides being noisy and stinky. Many were replace with gas engines, most were junked as they had little or no resale value. :train: