Historical/This I know/60-66 Model Changes

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

South African Built Chevrolet Left hand drive.

That is soooooo cool! Imagine driving that here in North America!

Also - notice how many hits this thread has - in less than a month?!

[jchav62]

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

South African Built Chevrolet Left hand drive.

What year is this truck? I see it has a '61 grille, a 62-66 hood, and a double hump dash with 64-66 style gauges... Pretty wild...

[Frizzle Fry]

That would be your other left... er... right

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

South African Built Chevrolet Left hand drive.

[aerotruk63]

Optional Equipement Index

[jbgroby]

OK Here is the scans of the 1960 GMC accessory Options Book. This information was originally scanned by Jolly Goodfellow of the 60-66 GMC club. As a member we have a copy.

[jbgroby]

More

[jbgroby]

Some more images

[jbgroby]

You can right click to save these images, which I would recommend and then print them out for your records binder.

I'm working on scanning the installation guide for ALL car and truck options from the Chevy/GMC installation manual. It's a LOT of pages. It will take awhile.

[aerotruk63]

1964 GMC Accessories

[aerotruk63]

1964

[aerotruk63]

1964 c

[aerotruk63]

Thank you "daverod" for use of this photo showing the 50-80 series instrument cluster on top of a 10-30 series instrument cluster. These represent 1964-66 years. ******There is an addendum to this post by Hilandr451 a few posts below.*****

[Hilandr451]

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

Note the temp gauge. notice that the green line that connects the low & high reading? in all production models 1964 & 1965 this line was a single thick flat green line. In the 1966 only it was two thin parallel green arches. The instument cluster shown above has a 1966 temp gauge installed.

[aerotruk63]

Argentinia Built Chevrolet trucks between 1964-1966. All were Panoramic View back Glass and had these tailgates. None were produced with any heaters. They came Inline 6 only, no V8's. All the hubcaps seem to be from 60-61 American model.

[70 Suburban]

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

Argentinia Built Chevrolet trucks between 1964-1966. All were Panoramic View back Glass and had these tailgates. None were produced with any heaters. They came Inline 6 only, no V8's. All the hubcaps seem to be from 60-61 American model.

no thats pretty cool. I would like the tailgate

[Frizzle Fry]

More from Argentina:

[joe231]

I want one of those gates

[jbgroby]

Been a while since this post was added to or updated.

On the early model 60-61 trucks doors there is NO window adjustment hole cut into it. From 62-66 you will find a hole about 1" in diameter just under the dove tail brace like below. The hole is suppose to be there and you use a plastic snap-in plug to fill it.

[1Bad62Pro/Street]

To the Top....
Also from General Motors Corp. (gmheritagecenter.com):
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=327764

1960 - 1966 Canadian Chevrolet & GMC VIN
http://www.oeltd.net/doc/6066gmc/vins/gmc-canada.htm

[collins10672]

besides seeing the obvious difference in the tailgate on the silver and black fleetsides than their american cousins.the rear wheel well shape and design are different,also no lower body design front of rear wheel well that matches the front fender,rocker panel and cab corner like the american version.also look closely at the tail light panel,its much thicker than our trucks.these are the first of these trucks that i've seen from argentina.i have seen the brazilian chevy trucks from the 60's and they are a complete different body style.i would have to give these trucks a thumbs up.great pic's.

[aerotruk63]

1963 Chevrolet Silver Book. I bought one from these guys years a couple of years ago. He told me his buisness was for sale . Guess he closed or is operating under another name.

[aerotruk63]

Martin Senour Paints. 1961-68 Chevrolet Truck Color Years Carry Over

[Imperial Kustom]

In my reading of 60-66 trucks, I came across an article explaining the rear trailing arm and coil spring suspension on the Chevrolets. According to the article, during a late '50's (I can't remember the exact year) NASCAR design season, Chevrolet introduced a trailing arm and coil spring rear suspension for the racecars. The same setup used in all NASCAR vehicles today. Then, unlike now, NASCAR rules stated that the cars be built of parts installed on production vehicles. This proposed suspension was not currently scheduled for production so it was incorporated into the Chevrolet line of pickups for the 1960 model year.

[sodly]

[QUOTE=aerotruk63;3389738]Would it be possible to start a Historical/ This I know section.
Example: Historical:
The 60-66 Chevrolet/GMC were designed by John Delorean based on Airplane Design. Thus the nickname Aerotrucks.

Hey, Aerotruck. Not to change the subject but you touched on a topic I've been interested in. That is, who designed the 60-66 trucks? Where did you discover that John Delorean headed the design team? I would love to learn more about this. It would be so cool to see the design process and rejected drawings. I've always wondered why nobody has ever written a "behind the scenes" book about designing these trucks. They made so many of them and they were so popular for so long you'd think there would be a market for such a book. For some strange reason, though, in-depth books on trucks (esp. pickups) are few and far between.

[jchav62]

ttt...