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About Author: Robert Bray
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![GM’s Detroit Diesel division’s legendary “Jimmy” two-cycle diesels were a genuine game changer in the transition to diesel engine adoption in trucks and buses starting in 1938-1939. They were powerful […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/toroflow-crop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Tortured Tale of the GMC Toro-Flow Diesel Engine: Truck-Stop Triumph or Deadly Sin?")
The Tortured Tale of the GMC Toro-Flow Diesel Engine: Truck-Stop Triumph or Deadly Sin?
Posted on June 23, 2025 | 22 CommentsGM’s Detroit Diesel division’s legendary “Jimmy” two-cycle diesels were a genuine game changer in the transition to diesel engine adoption in trucks and buses starting in 1938-1939. They were powerful […] -
![The Mack diesel V8 was unique in a number of ways, most of all in just being the only really successful four-cycle diesel V8 designed for big trucks. It was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/praise-mack-v8-diesel_atn-image-20-.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Legendary Mack V8 (1962-2003): Big Diesel Power With A Distinctive V8 Sound – And Its Scania V8 Offspring Is Still Going Strong")
The Legendary Mack V8 (1962-2003): Big Diesel Power With A Distinctive V8 Sound – And Its Scania V8 Offspring Is Still Going Strong
Posted on September 12, 2024 | 26 CommentsThe Mack diesel V8 was unique in a number of ways, most of all in just being the only really successful four-cycle diesel V8 designed for big trucks. It was […]
