nice old pickup

larry@stinescorner · Apr 3, 2016

Saw this today when going to my mother in laws.It was at a gas station for sale.

It was automatic,,did they make many of them back then?

the v6 emblem,,somebody painted it red

It kind of caught my eye,,pretty neat truck,,, but it had some rust

Tom in Ga · Apr 3, 2016

That V6 was a tough engine. I had one and never had trouble with it. I don't think it was real good on gas but gas was cheap back then so we
didn't mind so much. Like a timex watch, it took a licking and kept on ticking. Tommy

MarkB_MI · Apr 3, 2016

We had a '61 GMC with the 305 V-6 and an automatic. The automatic was a four-speed. Zero-to-sixty times required an egg timer, but it could pull a decent load and was reliable.

ben70b · Apr 3, 2016

Any idea what they want for it? I would drive it around just the
way it is

Richard G. · Apr 3, 2016

Had a 60 with the 305 V6 and that thing would pull. I took out the 3 on the tree and put in a 4 speed.
I've got a couple of stories to tell about it maybe tomorrow.
Richard

Gambles · Apr 3, 2016

A local guy had a pickup similar to that one years ago. If you want to hear a nice sound, put a dual exhaust on one.
About a year ago, the local machine shop and a V12 GMC 702 c.i. engine block sitting in their "finished" area. This engine was a genuine V12 block that had four V6 heads and two distributors that would bolt to it. It was used in some GMC semi trucks from that era. This local machine shop has a reputation for quoting a low-ball price and then hitting you with lots of "extras" when it comes time to pick up your work. The customer had his block bored and then found out he didn't have enough money to pick up the block and it sat there for months, just being a conversation piece.
This machine shop is now wondering why customers (myself included) will drive an extra hour to a different shop.

Gambles · Apr 3, 2016

One more FYI on that engine: The spark plugs were on top of the head by the intake manifold, because that's where the diesel versions had their injectors.

Pair-a-dice farm · Apr 3, 2016

Is that a '63? A friend of mine had a 66 with an automatic, 327, PS, PB and air. He said it came from the factory that way.

SweetFeet · Apr 3, 2016

It is neat.

matthies · Apr 3, 2016

I have whats left of a 67 1/2 ton chevy, I know different body, that came factory 327, 400 trans, ps, posi, steel box floor, and the large back window, had the "Custom" on the doors. When I was driving it had 350 engine/trans, had a lot of fun with that. Only reason the now wife wanted to date me..chris

Brent Zappe · Apr 3, 2016

I like that a V-6 engine pretty cool nice truck you have got. Did you know if you lived in So. Ca. you would find a truck like that with no rust cancer? I know because I have bought alot of trucks and all the rust is just surface type. We do not have snow and road salt where I live so the old cars have hardly no rust on them. Still that is a good find and you even got the factory hub caps WOW I can not even get a set of those for my truck in SO Ca.

Jon Hagen · Apr 4, 2016

I still have a running 67 GMC tandem truck with the BIG 478 CI V6 The thing has a very long frame and has an Allison 6 spd auto trans. We used it for a seed / fertilizer tender, but in it's former life it was an airforce fuel tanker truck. It still has the driveline splitter box and big centrifigal fuel pump it would use to pump jet fuel into a B52.

The V6 478 has a huge 5-1/18 inch bore size, makes a Chevy 427 / 454 look downright puny at a 4- 1/4 bore size. Fuiel economy as a frain truck was right at 2 mpg.

In later years of the GMC engine family, they replaced the overly long and complicated V12 702 with a huge V8, the 637, basically a 478 V6 with two more cylinders added.

nice old pickup

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