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Could some stuff have also been donated for educational purposes?

When I went to vocational auto shop in High school,the school had tons of parts and cars donated from GM,and Ford....Mopar must have been too cheap to give any thing away...hehe
The Coolest thing they had,was a Corvette Drive line,GM gave them.
It was a 63/64 frame,fuel injected small block,with knock off wheels.Everything looked to have a plastic coating on it,and had been cut so you could see the internal parts.A lot of things were chromed too,like the valve train/various engine parts,and some of the pieces inside the Transmission/Diff also.the wheels had about 1/3 of the spokes cut out of them,so the braking system could be seen better.

I also remember trying to get the teacher to sell me a Muncie 4spd,they were given,that he claimed was an M22(but I'm not so sure he was nearly as smart as he thought he was...could have been 20/21)...but he wouldn't go for that though.

They also had some new cars that were donated,that the wind shields had holes punched into them to remove the vin tag's.
I was only in the storage building a couple times,but they had a bunch of brand new motors...prolly not anything real HiPo,but ya never know...this was a small school,so it just makes me wonder what GM gave some of the big city schools....or colleges.