O.K. , I know it's a Nu-View (5 window et al) and a Jimmy but , it's pretty rough , I lifted the hood to find the L O N G 302 C.I.D. engine I lust after only to discover a wimpy Chevy babbit pounder 216 sans cylinder head instead... HUH ?! lemme look , this must be a Canuckian Jimmy , nope ! it's a Michigan built GMC , must be some old farmers rig patched up from parts... It even has a Chevy tailgate .
Nate, Sorry that this didn't work out-- I know you have secret "G" envy! Keep lookin'- one will show up.
Stand By ~ There might be some pictures coming....... Maybe another one of my B.S. junkyard stories too
Picture??? I don't know where it went! What picture? A picture of our leader standing next to his newly purchased GMC??? I hope you bought it! There is this guy on this site that keeps saying old blocks are easy to come by with all the hot rodders swapping them out for V8s. I bet you could find that long block of your dreams nice and cheap if you check the old posts on engines for sale! Come on, Nate~ Tell us what the deal is!
A Sad Day Indeed As I tried to get some help in getting parts off this old truck and I was lied to and blown off..... Promised help on several occasions only to have no one show up and in one case , the ' helper ' had a used car inspection lined up for me to do and whan I said I couldnt do it , he bailed right over the 'phone . The truck was crushed and it still had a late model 235 with short shaft water pump , pedal starter , oil filter and brackets , distributor , generator , overload springs , complete Bendix brakes , 1954 bed with tailgate , cowl vent complete ,SM420 four speed compund low tranny and worst of all , A GOOD U-JOINT The pix were taken (there's 7 pix in all , I'm stil waiting for them) by the ONE guy who deigned to take a few hours off and lend me a hand , he's not even a car guy , he's a product designer so I had to show him not only what tool to use but how to hold it , which way to turn to unscrew a bolt etc. etc. , sadly my traveling toolkit is all metric these days so I was able to show him how to drop the center carrier bearing and U-Joint , slide back and remove the stubby Torque Tube and expose the perfect U-Joint but lack of a lousy 1/2" X 3/8" drive socket meant he couldn't loosen the bolt holding it into place.... Ditto the all important speedo drive gear , it takes a 1" (?) thinwall socket or a HUGE Crescent wrench to remove and I had neither , might have worked a 23MM socket but that was 15 miles away @ home.... By the time I got my brother out there yesterday with fractional tools , they'de removed just ONE old truck from the old truck section..... guess which truck it was ? Oh yes , this was ll on a '52 Chevy one ton rig as the Jimmy is still sitting over in the ' for sale ' section . As y'alls might imagine I was sptiing nails when I went in and saw they'd crushed it . I've been helping folks out for 50 years and this is the thanx I got . Hell , I ever buy lunch when I ask for help on field jobs . C'est la Vie . I hope to get the pix soon and will post 'em when I get 'em .
Me Too Dijo Gabacho ! (Me Too Glenn) However , some nice person with a 'phone camera thingie took some pix and sent them to me , I'll try and post 'em up here... First is the nice U-joint , second is looking through it at the RasserFrasser 1/2" bolt I didn't have the socket to loosen so I could get it.... Third is another view of the U-Joint and also the speedo drive gear I couldn't get loose..... This was a *very* frustrating day , I had to watch someone else doing MY JOB then we couldn;t get the darn parts anyways .
Well I'LL BE! A picture of our Grand Master!!! Thanks for the photo, Master! You look very happy there! I'm sure that was a pre-u-joint photo, right? So all I want to know is, why haven't you bought the 5 window GMC???
Jimmy In P-A-P Well ; It's fairly rough , floorboard is rusted right through at the passenger side A pillar and having a Chevy babbit pouder 216 with out a head , it's junk or maybe Hot Rod materiel plus I don't like the Nu View RPO ya know , too much sunlight streaming through the cab and onto the back of my neck..... It'd be cheaper to buy a runner in any case , I was looking at a Jimmy with a 228 over Thanksgiving but where to find the $5K ? Understand this picture is not the Jimmy ! . It's a Chevy that was inside the yard, in the rows .
Here are the 2 that I have salvaged most that I can or is worth it. Not too much left. If you see anything you need, let me know.
