Heh! In North Dakota we all had electrical plugs hanging out of our car grills so we didn’t have to run the cars all night and that was almost 40 years ago. Guess the word moves slowly getting over to MN.
My car came to me used and very clean. It also has California emissions. Something tells me the block heater was not on the list of options the first owner cared to buy. It does not even have rear defrost.
I’m in MN. My block heater is plugged in now, and has been for the past week.