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Old 10-16-2017, 01:20 AM   #10
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Re: 250 is constantly giving me fits... considering something different

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Originally Posted by 71ChevySS(straight6) View Post
I've heard a lot of good things about 292s. But I can never find any, and have yet to even see one in person
Well I was lucky, I bought a truck in 1973, and it had a factory 292. Still have it. Ran it to work today.
I have one runner, rebuilt in 2005 and 2 more cores. One was a kick-out from somebody else's ''barnfind'' and the other I bought in a junkyard in Yuma in 1977, and rebuilt, and ran for 25 years. Many years ago a parts guy at my local Chevy dealers told me that the '' 292 was Chevy's best-kept secret''.
You gotta keep looking, but 50 years after the fact, they are admittedly getting rare.
UPS vans, dump trucks, school buses, K/20s, C/30s seemed to be powered with 292s.
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Every 25 years I like to rebuild that 292, whether it needs it or not.
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