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Originally Posted by Vintage Windmills
Why didn't GM just put the american bed on these? Tooling up for a different bed couldn't have been cheap.
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A lot of times there are local content considerations and I'm betting that is where that bed design/assembly came from. Yutivo assembled CKD Camaros and Suburbans (among others) in Manilia, Philipines for several years and they had a large percentage of locally sourced content other than the body and driveline. IIRC the whole operation folded around '69 over the government's decision to retroactively tax the Suburbans as cars vs trucks.