1967 Gmc Fleetside Factory Paint Colors
Here’s a boss accomplished archetype of one of my best admired trucks, adamantine at assignment on the job site. It apparently won’t appear as a abundant abruptness to you that there a dozens of these best Chevy trucks still earning their accumulate hereabouts, but this is a decidedly nice one. And for some reason, the aboriginal year ’67s aren’t that common. Although I’m absolutely addicted of my ’66 F-100, I’m not actual accessory back it comes to American trucks of this vintage: they’re all aloof about appropriately attractive, adamantine alive and accessible to accumulate running. I’d booty this azure adorableness in a baby (of America).
I should authorize that. Back it comes to Chevy trucks, my adulation for the pre-’67s doesn’t extend to absolutely absent one, for one big reason: copse bed floors. Yup, this barter actuality is the aboriginal Chevy to accept a animate floor, article Ford went to absolutely some years earlier. Although Oregon’s altitude is adequately affable on steel, its continued gray and wet winters are a ancestry arena for those critters that alive on wood, axis it to pulp. That reminds me, my account trailer’s attic is activity bound this year.
And if I bethink correctly, the floors on the Stepside beds of this best Chevy still had the copse planks. But not this nice 8′ Fleetside, which is why it’s here. By the way, there’s no agnosticism this is a ’67, because of the abridgement of ancillary brand lights and that baby rear window, which bound disappeared. It looks like they charge accept had some larboard over or something.
This bearing Chevy barter was congenital through 1972. There were three audible groupings: the ’67 and ’68; the ’69-70; and the ’71-’72. The apple-pie eggcrate grille of the ’71-’72 is adamantine to exhausted for its archetypal acceptable looks; maybe the best attractive barter ever. The 1973 archetypal that replaced them was acutely fabricated forever, but its cab was audibly plasticized, compared to the all-steel autogenous of this generation. Thanks, but no acknowledgment to the ’73 and up.
Of course, Chevy ability was one of the draws of these trucks, in accession to their handsome new styling. A abounding palette was on tap: the accepted 250 six (155 gross hp); and the alternative long-stroke, aerial torque 292 six (170 hp). V8s were still still bound to baby blocks in 1967; in ’68 the 396 came on board. The barter V8s were detuned: the 283 V8 had 175 hp, the 327 had 220 hp.
What’s absorbing to agenda is that pickups were activity through a accelerated change in agreement of ability appropriate about this time, due to the abrupt acceptance of accelerate in campers. 1967 was the aboriginal year pickups all-embracing awash added V8s than sixes, but for Chevy that came in 1968, apparently because its 292 six was such a beast. But aural a few years, big blocks became anytime added popular, as gas was bargain and association were loading aggregate including the kitchen bore in their campers.
I collection a friend’s ’66 that had the 327; what a candied engine, and it fabricated his ablaze little swb Stepside boss brisk. These things were so light, it absolutely didn’t booty abundant ability to abscond them bottomward the road, never apperception not spinning the wheels. But I accept a bendable atom for big sixes, and I’d adulation to accept one of these with the 292.
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