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before anyone gets their panties in a bunch I know this is a pickup forum but GMC made the trucks bigger the the 3500 series for Chevy maybe some one here knows where I can find parts for this series Big Truck. I am in need of a place to purchase engine/trans as well as body parts. This truck was one that the GMC dealership I worked at sold new in 1969 with a 4X4 conversion, the company that owned it were giving it away so my son works there and they gave it to him. It has the big block V/6 engine that they say is making a noise and they say the 2nd gear is gone in the trans. Being as it is winter here in New Hampshire we haven't tried to start it yet, will wait for a much warmer time when the oil is a lot more liquefied state. thanks

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SWEET! We need pics ASAP!

 

I will take some pics when it gets a bit warmer out and post them.

she need a bit of work as it has been not well taken care of these last few years but nothing a bit of TLC can't fix, she was used orginally to plow the airport in exchange for free hanger use but then they traded to a different air port and it didn't get much use after other then moving machinery from one plant to another once in a while if it was to heavy for a 1 ton. I had a dump but the hydraulics were removed. It has a custom snow plow frame made at the shop with it own cushions under so that when it hit anything the truck didn't take much of a beating it was absorbed my the HD Springs. She is a 4X4 converted by Marmon-Herrington so I was told.

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before anyone gets their panties in a bunch I know this is a pickup forum but GMC made the trucks bigger the the 3500 series for Chevy maybe some one here knows where I can find parts for this series Big Truck. I am in need of a place to purchase engine/trans as well as body parts. This truck was one that the GMC dealership I worked at sold new in 1969 with a 4X4 conversion, the company that owned it were giving it away so my son works there and they gave it to him. It has the big block V/6 engine that they say is making a noise and they say the 2nd gear is gone in the trans. Being as it is winter here in New Hampshire we haven't tried to start it yet, will wait for a much warmer time when the oil is a lot more liquefied state. thanks

check this out http://www.6066gmcguy.org/ good luck with it.

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before anyone gets their panties in a bunch I know this is a pickup forum but GMC made the trucks bigger the the 3500 series for Chevy maybe some one here knows where I can find parts for this series Big Truck. I am in need of a place to purchase engine/trans as well as body parts. This truck was one that the GMC dealership I worked at sold new in 1969 with a 4X4 conversion, the company that owned it were giving it away so my son works there and they gave it to him. It has the big block V/6 engine that they say is making a noise and they say the 2nd gear is gone in the trans. Being as it is winter here in New Hampshire we haven't tried to start it yet, will wait for a much warmer time when the oil is a lot more liquefied state. thanks

check this out http://www.6066gmcguy.org/ good luck with it.

 

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before anyone gets their panties in a bunch I know this is a pickup forum but GMC made the trucks bigger the the 3500 series for Chevy maybe some one here knows where I can find parts for this series Big Truck. I am in need of a place to purchase engine/trans as well as body parts. This truck was one that the GMC dealership I worked at sold new in 1969 with a 4X4 conversion, the company that owned it were giving it away so my son works there and they gave it to him. It has the big block V/6 engine that they say is making a noise and they say the 2nd gear is gone in the trans. Being as it is winter here in New Hampshire we haven't tried to start it yet, will wait for a much warmer time when the oil is a lot more liquefied state. thanks

check this out http://www.6066gmcguy.org/ good luck with it.

 

 

thanks I am headed there now and that guy is very popular as I have another forum that suggested that same site.

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big block V6?

 

EDIT - Those are some huge V6s..

 

What you guys suppose the reasoning behind building such large displacement V6s? I see they didn't really product that much power.

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big block V6?

 

EDIT - Those are some huge V6s..

 

What you guys suppose the reasoning behind building such large displacement V6s? I see they didn't really product that much power.

I think the idea was torque. Big bucket sized pistons make for some pretty good low end grunt. Not real fast but good truck motors in an era when trucks were actually used as trucks.

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big block V6?

 

EDIT - Those are some huge V6s..

 

What you guys suppose the reasoning behind building such large displacement V6s? I see they didn't really product that much power.

I think the idea was torque. Big bucket sized pistons make for some pretty good low end grunt. Not real fast but good truck motors in an era when trucks were actually used as trucks.

 

 

 

Yes, the V-6 was used exclusively in the GMC's ONLY. This motor was never put into the Chevy brand. It was a 305 CI motor and produced TONS of torque.

I think GM used the engine from the early 60's to around 71 or so.

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