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Chris65LeMans · 08-21-2018, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Stuart

I wonder exactly when it was that people started calling all six cylinder engines a V6...it is a cool truck though and would make for a good project vehicle. I've been watching Youtube videos from Lucky Costa (he is a co-host on Hot Rod Garage and often appears in Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines); he just put together a similar truck with a high horsepower LS engine and full QA1 suspension upgrades.

It’s people who don’t know much about cars. I’ve heard people talk about their “v4” cars for years. I don’t bother correcting them - they just don’t care.

goatless · 08-21-2018, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Stuart

I wonder exactly when it was that people started calling all six cylinder engines a V6...

Ya know I read right past that- I think I was thinking the GMCs from that era did have a V6, didn't they? Not really paying attention that his was a Chevy and would have a straight 6.

Greg Reid · 08-21-2018, 10:55 PM

I really don't recall the V-6s coming into vogue until the early 80s. At least, with GM cars.

4zpeed · 08-21-2018, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg Reid

I really don't recall the V-6s coming into vogue until the early 80s. At least, with GM cars.

I can relate to that statement, suddenly I feel so um...

yea... thanks Greg.

Frank

Heybuck · 08-22-2018, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by GTOnly70

67 Chevy Shortbed stepsister anyone?

https://texoma.craigslist.org/cto/d/...655667698.html

V6.....I'd probably give this seller the benefit of the doubt on this till proven otherwise.

It's obviously had a little work done to the vehicle so it may well have a later V6 installed. If he had used comma's in his description, it would make his selling points a little more clear.

JMHO
Ian

Greg Reid · 08-22-2018, 03:26 AM

Only problem is...he says-

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I have a 67 Chevy shortbed stepside all original v6

Greg Reid · 08-22-2018, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by 4zpeed

I can relate to that statement, suddenly I feel so um...

yea... thanks Greg.

Frank

I just looked it up...this should make you feel even

'er...

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The Chevrolet 90° V6 family of engines began in 1978 with the Chevrolet 200 cid (3.3 L) V6 as the base engine for the all new 1978 Chevrolet Malibu.

goatless · 08-22-2018, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg Reid

I really don't recall the V-6s coming into vogue until the early 80s. At least, with GM cars.

From Wikipedia- " The 305 V6 was GMC's standard pickup truck and Suburban engine from 1960 to 1974, and was one of the first V6 engines produced by an American company."

"QUICK-SILVER" · 08-22-2018, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg Reid

I really don't recall the V-6s coming into vogue until the early 80s. At least, with GM cars.

Do you not remember the buick even fire and odd fire ordeal?

Clay

Stuart · 08-22-2018, 10:55 AM

I suppose it's possible that the truck has a newer V6 swapped in (or even an older GMC V6) but I suspect it was just reflex to say that instead of saying straight 6. It probably doesn't apply to Craigslist but I think some auto sell websites that have auto fill entries only allow you to enter V6.

Not really related to this conversation, but I spent a summer during college back in the middle 1970s driving trucks for a local manufacturing company. One of them was a mid-1960s GMC cabover box truck, with the world's most worn out V6 engine...that thing could hardly get up to highway speed, and if there was a big hill forget it.

It had about zero compression, I remember that when I turned the key off it would take seconds for the motor to finally stop spinning. We had a second cabover of the same age but it was a Chevy with a small block, and it would run rings around the Jimmy.

4zpeed · 08-22-2018, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Stuart

I suppose it's possible that the truck has a newer V6 swapped in (or even an older GMC V6) but I suspect it was just reflex to say that instead of saying straight 6.

I would suspect the latter, just a reflex.

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Originally Posted by Greg Reid

I just looked it up...this should make you feel even

'er...

Nice to see you could get Wikipedia to chime in, lol.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The Chevrolet 90° V6 family of engines began in 1978 with the Chevrolet 200 cid (3.3 L) V6 as the base engine for the all new 1978 Chevrolet Malibu.

Frank

Chief of the 60's · 08-22-2018, 06:07 PM

Gym rims - https://buffalo.craigslist.org/pts/d...677986747.html

Greg Reid · 08-22-2018, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by goatless

From Wikipedia- " The 305 V6 was GMC's standard pickup truck and Suburban engine from 1960 to 1974, and was one of the first V6 engines produced by an American company."

I had no idea there was a V-6 in 1960...Learn something ever' day.

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Originally Posted by "QUICK-SILVER"

Do you not remember the buick even fire and odd fire ordeal?

Clay

Nope...never heard of it before.

Baron Von Zeppelin · 08-23-2018, 12:28 AM

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From Wikipedia- " The 305 V6 was GMC's standard pickup truck and Suburban engine from 1960 to 1974, and was one of the first V6 engines produced by an American company."

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I had no idea there was a V-6 in 1960...Learn something ever' day.

I didn't either until about a week or so ago.
Someone on here in street section - was asking what might be needed to swap a Pontiac engine into a 69 GMC with V6 305.

i had to wikipee it too
Got the same verse as goatless posted.
The rest of the explanation gets even wilder tho.
305 was the small V6

- some were huge upwards 500cid.
and then one was like 2 V6's put together - V12 with 2 Intakes, 4 Heads and 4 Exhaust Manifolds

lust4speed · 08-23-2018, 01:19 AM

I remember the advertisement in the magazines back then for the GMC V6 with the heads off and water coming out of every coolant hole in the decks squirting 10 or more feet high.