17,000 mile 1976 SILVERADO Barrett-Jackson

[57NAPCO]

Someone paid too much ( with fees 32,000 I bet), in my opinion. Prolly caught up in Auction fever. A very nice truck!

[JohnC]

Yeah Frank those trucks are their sunday driver trucks. They use the farm truck for all the abuse.

[C-10 simplex]

The whole notion of sellng off the gm collection is/was tragic.

i don't think by selling off the vehicles it made even the slightest dent in gm's financial situation.

Good truck though. i don't know if it was worth it----a similar truck could be restored for several thousands cheaper?


P.S. i love the wheel covers on both trucks; Today's "designers" suck and should all be fired without severance pay or pension and be publicly shamed. How do they sleep at night? (with sleeping pills)

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by C-10 simplex

The whole notion of sellng off the gm collection is/was tragic.

i don't think by selling off the vehicles it made even the slightest dent in gm's financial situation.

Good truck though. i don't know if it was worth it----a similar truck could be restored for several thousands cheaper?


P.S. i love the wheel covers on both trucks; Today's "designers" suck and should all be fired without severance pay or pension and be publicly shamed. How do they sleep at night? (with sleeping pills)

I didn't get the impression that those trucks were in the GM collection. Let me know if I didn't interpret that right.

Selling vehicles in from the GM Heritage Center was not really a big deal; we did get "several" million dollars, which of course is helpful, but we didn't let any of the really good stuff go. Only duplicates and not very significant vehicles. The true one-offs and historically significant vehicles are still tucked away.

K

PS - I love those wheelcovers too. Those are the ones we had on our '69 GMC. After getting more exposure to the Pontiac 8 lug aluminum wheel I think I can see why Dad liked those wheel covers so well: