So, what happened here?

It broke.

it's a gen 3 hemi engine I believe.

Stress on a V8 tries to split the banks.
5.0 mustang blocks were notoriously weak in that area
and tend to split in half above 500 hp.

But I doubt that was the cause, I'd suspect a valve train
failure resulting in extreme downward pressure on the cam
which cracked the block. Possibly a VVT failure?
Or not.

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I miss those old hamburger stands. The burgers were better than modern fast food.
The first fast food place I ever experienced was when I was 12 years old. There was a Red Barn in the "big" town nearby. A cheeseburger was 25 cents and it had more than an ounce of beef in it. You could get a burger, fries, and a shake for less than a dollar.

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We've got 3 small town hamburger chains within 30 minutes of me, prices sure have gone up compared to that sign but the food quality is still up there. All locally owned, each chain has two or three stores in two small towns, all drive thru only.

There were several of those in the Tampa area back in the early-mid 90s. I think Checkers and Hookers were 2 of them. Great burgers, drive through only.

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1897 Amoskeag steam-powered fire engine of the Boston Fire Department. Weighing 17,000 pounds (7.700 kg). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ca. 1919.
Now that is a big fire engine!

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U.S.Army Spruce Division truck hauling in western Washington.ca.1918

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Children at city dump. Ambridge in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1938. (Photograph by Arthur Rothstein).

The string of photos above strikes me as especially good.

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^ we're going to need some background info on that one!

According to https://www.boredpanda.com/rare-historical-photos/

Trying to find a bit more info

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/lreq3w/a_dancer_demonstrates_her_underwear_was_too_large/

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Kinda hot!

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August 1910. Every one of here was working in the cotton mill at North Pownal, Vermont, and they were running a small force. Dave Noel, 14; Theodore Momeady, 15, working three years. Albert Sylvester, 16, working one year; Eugene Willett, 13, working one year; Arthur Noel, 15, working one year; P. Tetro, 15, working one year.

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Led Zep's Bonham in his t-bucket

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Wife is out of town, or he is single.

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Pack of cigarettes in the pocket of the middle guy?

That block looks too clean - possibly never run? If they put a wrong size component in or over-tightened something during the build a flaw in the casting could have maybe caused that?

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Love him or hate him, Union General Dan Sickles was nothing if not a character. He married a 15 year old; he brought a prostitute to Congress; he killed his young wife’s lover, in front of the White House, and got away with it using the first ever plea of “not guilty due to temporary insanity”. He rose to Corps command (the only Corps commander, on either side at Gettysburg, who was not a West Pointer).
After advancing his Corps to the Peach Orchard on the 2nd Day at Gettysburg, forming an indefensible salient (ill conceived at best, Court Martialable at worst), Dan got hit in the leg by a cannon ball. He would have the mangled leg amputated 2 hours later.
In true Sickles fashion, he donated the leg to the Army Medical Corps museum. Here he would visit the leg on the anniversary of his wounding, often bringing guests and offering a toast. (The cannon ball is for illustration only and is not the one that took his leg.)
Dan was an early proponent of memorializing the Gettysburg Battlefield. He served prominently on the New York monument commission, until some $27,000 (worth close to a million dollars in today’s money) turned up missing.
When asked where his monument at Gettysburg was (the other Union Corps Commanders all have grand equestrian statues), he would say “Why the whole battlefield is my monument”. There is a small monument that marks where he was wounded.

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If you're ever driving up the 20 mile stretch of the Kern River, there's a hamburger stand at McNally's (home of the 40 oz Porterhouse) that has great burgers. Only open in summer....

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