Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?

[ron david]

Originally Posted by GMCNUT

"wonder who is cloning who
what you guys seem to say is that the US is the world leader in everything".
ron

OK, so General Motors in a North American automobile manufacturer with plants and lots of satisfied customers in Canada; it is not the opposite - a Canadian company with lots of satisfied customers in the U.S. so if your view is that GM vehicles are superior to that of Canadian auto makers then yes, you can add GM vehicles to the list of things the U.S. seems to be the world leader in.

GM decided that for cost reasons among other things, that it would borrow from the Chevrolet division its cabs, bodies and frames & drivetrains to use as GMC models in Canada. Guage clusters and dashes are all Chevrolet design from the 50's and 60's. Eaton rear ends instead of Dana's, coil springs vs leafs - every difference between the two makes had between them here basically. the GMC name was added to badging, instruments cluster bezels, etc but the trucks were indeed mostly Chevrolet in Canada. No Pontiac V8's in Canadian 55-59 trucks either so same story there.

it is like to the americans that the super bowl is a world championship when the only teams that play in it are american, sort of ironical isn't it.
GMC and Chrevrolet bodies come out of the same stamp whether canadian or us. canadian gmc have the same dash.instruments and bezels as the us ones do. the frames are identical. the only difference again is the engines, the same as you have stated for the 55-59 light duty trucks
here are a couple of US GMC's that I have owned so I am a little familiar with them
this one I bought for the body
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and this one which had a 305 hydramatic for parts


ron

[ron david]

Originally Posted by GMCNUT

Leaf springs were a factory installed option on all 60's Chevrolet trucks despite rumors this is not true; you just seldom see one. I have a 66 Chevy truck now that came with them. So your 65 GMC built in Canada was probably special ordered with the leafs, because 99% of the other Canadian GMC's that rolled off that line got standard coils.

here again you are misinformed, coils were an option here on the 63-66
ron

[GMCNUT]

Originally Posted by BarryGMC

Sorry Ron. But I can't help the stupid. Leafs were optional on Chevy 63-72 coils were not on us GMC 63-66. There are more differences than I have listed. But I am done with this.

Barry, I'm following you bud - I'm out.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Ron I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that Canadian GMCs were built as a chivvy copy instead of a true GMC. It's not a dis, its just fact. They were built with chivvy parts because that was whats handy.

Dont sweat it. Just let it go.

[ron david]

Originally Posted by FetchMeAPepsi

Ron I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that Canadian GMCs were built as a chivvy copy instead of a true GMC. It's not a dis, its just fact. They were built with chivvy parts because that was whats handy.

Dont sweat it. Just let it go.

what is a chivvy?
ron

[bigblockv6]

Originally Posted by ron david

I would really like to know what is more chev than gmc in a Canadian GMC except Canadian production didn't use the V6 eng but used a small block chev eng instead. in the 63-66 production if there was a V6 installed in a US production truck it had to have an adaptor to hook it up to an a/trans. in Canadian production there were no adaptors required to hook up and eng to an a/trans because everything fit. wonder who is cloning who
what you guys seem to say is that the US is the world leader in everything.
ron

I find it odd that GMC V6's with a manual transmission need a bell housing adapter! My 68 KM2500 has a bell housing ( part number 643191) bolts directly to the engine block and the illustration in my GMC parts book confirms it. In fact all my parts books for larger series show the same illustration including the larger bell housing part number 696559 or 696561. Over the years I've bought several GMC V6's ranging up to the 478 with bell housing and one that came with an adapter housing because it had an Allison automatic behind it.

[ron david]

Originally Posted by bigblockv6

I find it odd that GMC V6's with a manual transmission need a bell housing adapter! My 68 KM2500 has a bell housing ( part number 643191) bolts directly to the engine block and the illustration in my GMC parts book confirms it. In fact all my parts books for larger series show the same illustration including the larger bell housing part number 696559 or 696561. Over the years I've bought several GMC V6's ranging up to the 478 with bell housing and one that came with an adapter housing because it had an Allison automatic behind it.

did I say manual trans. I believe that I said a/trans which is usually an abbreviated version standing for automatic transmission.
ron

[bigblockv6]

Ron, by all means my reply was not directed to you, some how I confused it with an earlier post.

[David R Leifheit]

Originally Posted by ron david

David; what was this page that Jolly had listed on his site?
http://6066gmcguy.com/Inline6.html
ron

Looks like it.
Indicates that 1964 was the first year for inline 6 in GMC trucks in the US.

[ron david]

there is a book called the silver book which list all of the vendors for addition GM stuff
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these following 2 pages list the vendors for crew cabs


they are difficult to read, but sorry about that
ron