Rosie, a '62 GMC Carryall

[Mr_Asa]

My favorite aunt passed away about a year, year and a half back. She left me Rosie.

Rosie is a west coast Carryall that is perched on a squarebody frame. Some sort of GM Crate motor, 4L80E, air-lockers, all the toys.
My uncle-in-law's son owned her, drove her to Alabama, then went off to god-knows-where and passed away. Uncle passed away, so Rosie was sitting for 6ish years when I got her.



Took some workin, but I got her to idle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYrl-VEBVPY

About a month later I got her running well enough to drive to the gas station and fill her up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7l_QAe_Ng

Going up this weekend to work on her some more, get her more reliable and hopefully be able to get her registered and insured.

Lots of rust that I need to address (that you can see) and I need to figure out the mechanism for the rear-door so I can replace the lock and lube up the latch.

[MusicMan70]

Welcome to the Forum, Mr. ASA!

Beautiful GMC Carryall and would love to see more photos.

Hey there Rosie

[Mr_Asa]

Some random photos:


The entire rockers look like this, basically. California vehicle, driven on the beach I'm sure.




Hooking her up to tow down to Florida


At Dad's place


As I mentioned, the engine is some flavor of GM Crate engine. One of these days I'll track down the code on it.


Not 100% sure what kind of frame she's on, but based on the shocks and a few other things, likely a squarebody?




Dog pic

[Mr_Asa]

I would love any and all info anyone has on the rear-door and getting the mechanism to work and door to open. I presume I need to crawl through there and take the panel off so I can manually manipulate the rods?