Custom Camper, Camper Special and The Longhorn

[Loose Screw]

What's the GMC designation?

[Steeveedee]

One could buy a 133" wheelbase 3/4T GMC, but they never used the "Longhorn" designation.

[chewychevy67]

1967 gmc were camper cruisers and had a special badge. After 68 I'm not sure.

[yuccales]

Was the Sierra Grande the GMC Longhorn?

[Mike C]

The Sierra Grande was a trim package. It could be had on any bed length truck. The 133” trucks were available in fleet side “Longhorn” or step side configuration as well as cab and chassis with no bed at all.

[Loose Screw]

What badging did GMC put on their 8'.6" bed 1969-72 pickup trucks. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the "Longhorn" badge.

[too much stuff]

Originally Posted by Loose Screw

What badging did GMC put on their 8'.6" bed 1969-72 pickup trucks. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the "Longhorn" badge.

I think it was "custom camper" on the upper doors was it.

[jocko]

GMC didn't put any badging on their 133" wheelbase trucks with fleetside beds (i.e. with 8' 6" bed). It was just a 133" wheelbase truck.
Longhorn script on the bed was for Chevs only.
133" wheelbase was unrelated to the separate RPO Z81 Custom Camper option, but Z81 could be ordered on a 133" wheelbase truck (and often was).
"Custom Camper" was the RPO Z81 option that resulted in the Custom Camper script above the door handle from 68-72 for GMC. As has been noted above, in 67 it was the Camper Cruiser, a pretty rare truck.
Camper Special was not an option until 73 (even though different terminology exists across some of the SPIDs in this era - the actual Z81 RPO was "Custom Camper")

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by jocko

GMC didn't put any badging on their 133" wheelbase trucks with fleetside beds (i.e. with 8' 6" bed). It was just a 133" wheelbase truck.
Longhorn script on the bed was for Chevs only.
133" wheelbase was unrelated to the separate RPO Z81 Custom Camper option, but Z81 could be ordered on a 133" wheelbase truck (and often was).
"Custom Camper" was the RPO Z81 option that resulted in the Custom Camper script above the door handle from 68-72 for GMC. As has been noted above, in 67 it was the Camper Cruiser, a pretty rare truck.
Camper Special was not an option until 73 (even though different terminology exists across some of the SPIDs in this era - the actual Z81 RPO was "Custom Camper")

What Jocko said.

[Already Gone]

Pics of a pretty original 1970 GMC 133 WB and no Longhorn badging anywhere.

[Greg58]

I have a 70 GMC Sierra Grande 133"wb, it has the Custom camper script on the doors.
Greg

[jocko]

Beautiful truck Greg. Note that is the GMC Custom script only (which GMC used in regard to trim level) - that's a different animal. So, it's not a Custom Camper (no Z81 on the SPID). (Same scenario as the blue one Greg posted (another beauty) - Custom script related to trim level with no Z81 on the SPID).

[Loose Screw]

Damn! those Trucks are BEAUTIFUL!

So, If someone tells you they have a "Longhorn" pickup, that means they have 133" box Chevy?
Aaand, if someone tells you they have a Custom Camper, Custom Cruiser or Sierra Grande it doesn't necessarily mean their box is 133"?

The reason I got into all this, a big shot that's always right (in his mind) told me a GMC we saw with that added box piece was a Longhorn and even I knew Longhorn is a Chevy term...I just changed the subject because I knew if I would have kept talking trucks he probably would have told me he owned a C/10 GMC when he was in high school....

[davischevy]

My 1971 Super Custom, 133" wb GMC has Camper Wiring on the SPID but no Custom Camper on the door. I think you were allowed to order the script after you ordered the required camper related options. The script was actually a stand alone option, not part of any option group.

[Steeveedee]

Custom Camper

[jocko]

Originally Posted by davischevy

My 1971 Super Custom, 133" wb GMC has Camper Wiring on the SPID but no Custom Camper on the door. I think you were allowed to order the script after you ordered the required camper related options. The script was actually a stand alone option, not part of any option group.

I agree Larry. The Z81 is just a buyer's way of saying "yes, Chevrolet, please throw the Custom Camper nameplate on my truck now that I have all the underlying separate RPOs that enable me to do that." Ironically, the Camper Wiring (UY1) is not one of the required RPOs, only the ones shown in Steeveedee's post above are the ones a Custom Camper has to "also" have to be allowed to have the nameplate.

So, one could have two 100% identically equipped trucks, capable of the exact same hauling capacity - and one could be a Custom Camper (with Z81 on the SPID) and one could be a non-Custom Camper (with no Z81 on the SPID). And neither, both, or either could have camper wiring.

For Chevs with Z81 RPO - the emblem appeared on the fender thru 71 (in place of the trim emblem - so, yes, you could have a 71 Cheyenne Super and nobody would know it because it had the Custom Camper emblem on the fender - Z81 supersedes YE9 badging when they conflict); and above the door handle in 72 only.

For GMC with Z81 RPO, the Camper Cruiser emblem was used in 67 (front portion of fender), then the door Custom Camper script was used 68-72 (I think... some GMC guru probably needs to double check me on that )

In order below:
65 Chev Custom Camper (rare as hen's teeth, and still lookin for one ..)
66-68 Chev Custom Camper
67 GMC Camper Cruiser
69-71 Chev Custom Camper (this one happens to also be a Cheyenne Super)
68-72 GMC and 72 Chev Custom Camper