I’ve always liked the Detroit Diesel, formerly General Motors (GM), vehicles. When I was growing up, my father and grandfather had 2 stroke 6V-53 GM’s in coaches, as well as 2 stroke UD4’s, which were a bit like the Japanese version of a GM.

The 2 stroke has a sound of its own, and to many of us, it is music to the ears. They were a very popular truck engine from the 1960s right through to the early 1980s, even though they had been around for a long time before that.

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