I had a 1980 GMC 3/4 ton pickup with a 292 and a 4 speed that my brother bought new for $8500. With 4.10 posi rears, it would not pull the hat off your head and got 11-12 MPG.
I bought it with 50,000 miles on it in late 1981 for $5000 (anybody remember 22% interest rate on bank loans for an 18 year old still in high school?). I pulled that engine two months later and put in a big block 400 out of a 1972 half ton that me and a friend overhauled before installation. We built it back stock with the specs from the '72 half ton minus the smog crap. It would get 12.5 MPG daily and would spin the tires in 4th gear on wet pavement if you romped on it at 50 MPH. It would leave the new 454 pickups my peers had in its dust.
I always wondered why they didn't put a two or 4 barrel carb on the 292 though, if they were going to put it in an application like a 3/4 or 1 ton pickup. I had a neighbor that had one in a 1 ton single wheel four wheel drive with 4.56 rears.
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