Iron rings in forward??

INEEDAGN

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I bought a shelf full of hard parts from a trans shop awhile back. Digging through it today, just noticed one of the forward drums has iron rings on it. Was this a factory setup at some point in production? I won't run them, I was just curious as I thought they were all split Teflon from gm.

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