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