1976-78 GMC Royal Sierra

[ericzand]

I just found a Royal Sierra Pickup Truck, there's no a lot of information about them on line but they are rare can away help me out

[barry G]

all kinds of info.

here is just one site:

 

https://gearheads.org/all-of-73-87-chevy-and-gmc-special-edition-pickup-trucks-part-ii/

 

 

 

 

GMC Royal Sierra Years: 1976-1979

Royal Sierra too wasn’t a special edition per se, but that doesn’t make it rarer than other limited run models. In fact, only around 500 or so of them are believed to have been ordered that way. Royal Sierra is basically nothing more than a special trim offered as year-end promotional package. It’s analogous to much more widespread Chevy Bonanza.

Everyone ordering a Royal Sierra trim got the opportunity to stack it with groupings of both appearance and convenience options at discounted prices. That’s why they’re usually mildly upscale models, although pretty much every GMC truck option could have been ordered with it. What it did was to basically replace the Chevy Scottsdale/GMC Sierra Grande decals. In other words, RPO Z62 trim continued serving as its base, but under a different name. That practice was abandoned after 1979 and so was the mandatory Z62 trim. Z84 or YE9 interiors were also available at a discount from 1980 onward, but they were never again named differently.

 

if you find weird models, look for suspension upgrades. that is about the only specials worth anything.

I remember attacking power windows back to manual, any extra was near worthless.

A/C had the poisonous version of refrigerant and helped to overheat the engine and even power steering.

 

they had good intentions.

paint jobs may be another interesting thing to keep.

Two tones and trims.

 

I had a heavy half, it always got looked at. Two tone and trim.