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GMC VS Chevy Motor
Does anyone know what year the GMC pickup started using Chevrolet motors? Or more directly what year the GMC pickup started using the Chevrolet 350 V8?
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Re: GMC VS Chevy Motor
gm used the same engines in the 70's i believe late 70's Like 77 if im correct.
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I'm looking at an original 1969 GMC sales brochure that has the entire engine line up. Available engines are: 250, 292, 305e (GMC V6), 307, 350, 396.
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So you meant to tell me that I can not get a newer GMC with a 350? say a '95? He's talking about chevy engines, not GMC motors. The 350 came out in the late 60's more like around '68-'69 (I forget) so I think that it was an option since then in GMC's, the V6 (305,351,468 and 702) was also an option in the GMC line up, but never the Chevrolet.
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no what I ment was in 77 or so, gm dropped any difference in motors and just used one universal line of engines
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IMO, GMC had better options for a true truck engine than Chevy offered.
I believe I said this on here before, but a guy who was a big wheel at the largest local GM dealer in the area back in the 60's and 70's told me a few years ago that you could HAVE gotten a V-6 in a pickup until 74 or some time there after if you had the right connections at a dealer, he never said what V-6, but I assume it was the 305E(Or the last version of that CID)............Whether it was true or not I don't know. He said they were also playing around with Diesels in our body style trucks in the last years of production, never did say exactly who or what got them, Test beds for small fleet like railroads and others maybe? He liked to chuckle at how bad the Toroflow V-6's were, junk steel in the '73's and up, and who could forget the Chevy Luv ![]() Old Howard lived across the road from one of our farms and loved to walk over and talk trucks...........He was really fired up about the Cummins transplant, sadly he didn't live long enough to go for a ride.
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Interesting question, TTT for you anyways
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What? your kidding right? GM is GM.................whether your GMC or Chevrolet you enjoyed the same powerplant for these trucks..unless you talk Pontiac (yuck) or Oldsmobile (please no), Cadillac (gag) or heaven forbid Buick..................
a smallblock 350 is a small block 350 as long as it is chevy/GMC. that's the question right? RIGHT? dang maybe it's me and rum and cokes this afternoon??? oh well JC |
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As far as caddy's go, nothin beats house pulling torque just off idle. Theres prob not a big block stock for stock that can keep up with a caddy motor
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I have a 1959 GMC with a Chevrolet engine.
US trucks in the 50's came with Pontiac engines and the Canadian GMC's came with Chevrolet engines. A 1959 GMC in Canada would either have a 235 I6 or a 283 V8. So when did both GMC and Chevrolet start using the same engines in the US?
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Re: GMC VS Chevy Motor
1967 for most light duty trucks was when GMC switched from the V6 to the Chevy V8. Heavy trucks still used the V6 until 74, iirc. I know the chevy 427TD was available, I drove a 69 tractor with one in the early 70s, as well as a lot of medium trucks of the 67-72 vintage with the different V6s.
Straight sixes were available in the Handi-van in 64, started with the 230, then switched to the 250 in 66. The 292 was also available. More info on the V6 can be found at Jolly's site www.6066gmcguy.org , but he doesn't cover much after 66.
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1969 was the first year the 350 was installed in light duty pick ups...both chevy and GMC.
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The first year that GMC used Chevy engines was 1964. That year, the 230 straight 6 was made an option in GMC pickups, along with the GMC only V-6. Also in 1964, the small G series vans used the Chevy 230 6 cyl. and 153 4 cyl.. In 1967, the 283 V-8 was an option in the G series vans, and both the 283 and 327 V-8's were optional in panels and Suburbans only, not GMC pickups. Starting in 1968, the 307, 327, and 396 were available in pickup trucks. The last year the GMC V-6 was offered in pickups was 1969.
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May as well add to the confusion. 1967 AMC Ambassador had a 327 - V8 engine...but that was a Chrysler motor.
![]() Heres a bit of historical chronology of the St. Catherine's, Ont. GMC plant. http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/.../mckinnon.html
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69 was the last year for 3/4 and 1/2 ton... in one ton you could still get the V-6 untill 72.
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Actually, March of '69 was it for factory installed V-6's in 1500/2500/3500's. The V-6 was available as a dealer installed option until '72 in 1500/2500/3500's. I have early and late '69 GMC light duty sales brochures, and the V-6 is completely gone from the late '69 one. The last year the V-6 was manufactured was '74.
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Interesting... I guess there is a possability that the CM one ton cab/chassis daullie truck in the junk yard is a 69 with a 71/72 grill on it.
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