Ok, when you say 'melting aluminum engine block' do you actually mean melting, as in solid metal starting to melt? And why would they use Aluminum?
If that is what you mean (actual melting) i do not know whether to laugh at that car or cry for the people who acquired it! Did they not do tests on cars back then?
A melting engine block! That is a first!
Lots of car engine blocks are aluminum--aluminum alloys. I don't know about this particular car, but it sounds to me that they miscalculated the alloy, or cheaped out on the ingredients, and ended up with a metal with too low a melting point.
I'd bet it didn't actually liquify, merely soften enough to warp.
Still though, how moronic can they be?