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Originally posted by Bob Parmenter
Okay Matthew, if you're going to be a smarta@@. That'll teach me to try being a "nice guy" and just giving a little info.

The engine you pictured is for the 7000 series trucks, it is technically a V12, though made from parts of two V6's, GM called it a Twin 6. It is based on the 305 V6 (so shoot me for 1 cubic inch). It is rated at 702 cubic inches, 250 n/hp, 585# n/torque.

The V6's also came in 351, 379, 401, 432, & 478 ci.

I thought the V12 was based on the 351. Anyway, I like ours. Since you got the engine, you might as well tell us the model of the body now.

Originally posted by Bob Parmenter
And here's a pic I found.

Yeah, Bob. You got the pic off the page I have been working from. I actually read up on our engine on here.

http://www.6066gmctrucks.org/TwinSix.htm

where do you get pictures of these? Being that so few probably ever seen them, are they rare and, therefore, worth bucks? You guys simply know too much about these older cars. My parents were probably just getting squirted out when most of these cars were built!!

Originally posted by su400ped
where do you get pictures of these? Being that so few probably ever seen them, are they rare and, therefore, worth bucks? You guys simply know too much about these older cars. My parents were probably just getting squirted out when most of these cars were built!!

Originally posted by Streets
They are all available on the internet and can be stolen very easily IF ya know how.. They are NOT original photographs either..
And WE know about these cars because WE are as OLD as these cars are... Some are even OLDER....
Streets...

As for where the pictures come from, there are people out there who are very adamant about one or two types of cars. These people will put up websites dedicated to these automobiles. These websites usually have pictures on them. You use a search engine to find the pics or the website, then you post them for all to see. I went searching for pics of an Edsel Ranchero. I found the rest of the Edsels in that search. The Corphibian I read about in Vintage Truck, though at the time it was called This Old Truck. I tracked down a pic of it and posted it. The GMC B model has always interested me since my uncle told me of one he had been searching for. I found the one he had been looking for for 20 years and we got it. It has the 702 V12, is a 7000, and looks very similar to the one in the pic with the exception of the second live axle.

I am drawn to odd things. Every car I own is either rare or relatively uncommon. I own 2 1939 Nashes. Most people haven't even heard of Nash, let alone be able to draw a 1939 to mind. I have a 1963 C10 long stepside bed with a 283, a combo that is rarely seen. It will soon be a 1960/1961/1963 conversion when money and time permit. I have a 1972 Suburban. Burbs were not common until the 1973 body style. I have seen 3 like it in person traveling from Vegas to the Outer banks of NC. My newest car is a 1996 Saturn SC2, highly optioned. The combo of options and this year is rarely seen. Now, why is it that I post pics of obscure things? Maybe because I enjoy stumping people and looking at the pics myself.

I am young enough to be Street's son. How is it that I know about these cars? Answer: I don't know about a lot of them. I grew up in a family with a junkyard (read: private auto collection). It contained mostly 1960-1963 Chevrolet trucks, Corvairs, Porsche 914s, Edsels, and a few other independents and others. Therefore, that is what I know about. Ask me anything about 60-63 Chevrolet trucks. If I can't give you the answer right off, you'll probably have it within 24 hours. That is just what I spend my time doing. I stick around here to learn and have fun. Yes, some of these cars are rare and valuable, but I'll leave them to Streets and Bob. I'll try to stick to what I know about: worthless junk and oddities.

Yes, pics are easy to steal. That is a good way to get them as long as you give credit to who you took them from. I try to find the easiest way to get my pics, which amounts to legal ways.

Steets: It's a Hispano Suiza H6C Saoutchik Coupé.


Abe

I didn't mean to offend anyone about the choice of pictures or their age. I was just impressed and surprised I have never seen any of these rides before. qat727, it sounds like you do have quite a collection of the rare and obscure. It is deffinitely better than having something 50,000 other people also do. Keep it up!! I am younger too, and I do remember the Nash. An old highschool classmate had a Rambler. That thing was huge. I came from a real rural town which had a lot of strange one-of-a-kind vehicles. If I ever see any of them, I will try to post em here.

qat:

My daily driver is a slightly modded 1995 SC2. We should talk sometime.

Abe

Originally posted by su400ped
I didn't mean to offend anyone about the choice of pictures or their age. I was just impressed and surprised I have never seen any of these rides before. qat727, it sounds like you do have quite a collection of the rare and obscure. It is deffinitely better than having something 50,000 other people also do. Keep it up!! I am younger too, and I do remember the Nash. An old highschool classmate had a Rambler. That thing was huge. I came from a real rural town which had a lot of strange one-of-a-kind vehicles. If I ever see any of them, I will try to post em here.

"An insult is like a drink: it only affects one if taken" (something close to a quote from Glory Road by Heinlein, just to give credit)

No offence taken, at least by me. There was a paucity of odd vehicles around the high school parking lot here in Oak Ridge. There were a few vintage vehicles, but no really rare ones. As for my collection of odd cars, I only have 5. My dad has around 20, one uncle has around 50, another has 20, and another has over 100. The one with 100 owns the yard, and the one with 50 owns part of about half of those cars. We do have a habit of collecting the rare and obscure for several reasons. One: to stump and amaze people, and Two: economics. Not many people want an odd car, thus the buying price is much cheaper than a popular car or truck. My Nash Ambassador for example. I bought the thing with a GOOD STEEL body on it for $1776, plus around a $500-600 trip to go get it. It just happened to come with a Mustang II front end, 351C built up and bored over, a C6, Mustang 9", and several other things already installed. I doubt seriously if you could get that kind of a deal on a GM, FoMoCo, or Mopar of that vintage. As for Nash, I prefer their middle years. The 30s are good for me. Anything newer and the build quality was deteriorating, as was the looks. Those Slipstream Nashes were some smooth cars. I don't think the big 3 matched those lines until later. My Ambassador is in my gallery if you want to look at it.

No one has IDd the sport wagon yet. Come on, guess away.

So Matthew, is it too early for me to ID the wagon..............or you still want the pups to squirm (and the NY geezer too)?

Streets, re the HS. That's only one of Charlie's cars, he has a "small" museum of them. He had an earlier HS, a HUGE phaeton from the '20's. An absolutely drop dead gorgeous car, one of my favorites. I met him when we fixed his wife's BMW once. He is partners with some other high rollers in a project called "Club 200". They've got a building in Kirkland, (for the Washington folk here) that houses their exquisite cars. All true classics (not cars that misuse that terminology). He also has a house in California where he keeps some others. A real down to earth kinda guy in spite of his success in life.

Seriously, Bob if you know the answer, which you probably do, hold off for a while, but if it doesn't look good, give them a hint. Just to refresh the questions for everyone: Who made this? Was this car a production model? What year is it? Model?

I can't believe it. I actually hit 100 posts. That may seem small to you all with more than 1000, but it is still something for me.

The engine in the GMC is a 702 CID V12...It was two 351s mated end to end..At first I thought they must have had a torque converter between the two cranks to take up the difference in balance...But it appears the block was one big casting with one single crankshaft...But I could be wrong..I have always wanted one to make a Doodlebug....(homemade tractor)......Man !!! what a stump puller it would be....Al..

The sport wagon is 1960 Edsel..No??...

Originally posted by inlineidiot
The engine in the GMC is a 702 CID V12...It was two 351s mated end to end..At first I thought they must have had a torque converter between the two cranks to take up the difference in balance...But it appears the block was one big casting with one single crankshaft...But I could be wrong..I have always wanted one to make a Doodlebug....(homemade tractor)......Man !!! what a stump puller it would be....Al..

Yes, you weren't the first to ID it as a 702, but you were the first on here with the doodlebug idea. It would make a heck of a doodlebug. But ours is being turned into a sleeper road tractor. The site about them is linked to on the previous page. What they did was have two 351 blocks sit end to end, then made a single casting from that. I think it is one long crank, but the thing does have four heads, two carbs, two intakes. It's a real bit** to tune, time, etc, and requires hellatious batteries to crank.

Originally posted by Streets
Not me BBB, I don't play with someone that changes the rules in mid steam and plays favs.. I'll just sit here and watch.. There is a polite way of saying that it isn't the right answer, then there's the RUDE way.. seen both used here.. dodn't care for the 'Tude either.. thus I'll just be lurkin' and doin' muh own thang... elsewhere too...
'Nuff said on this subject too...
Streets...

I noticed your absence. I didn't intend to make any enemies on here. Sorry if I offended you. I do not intentionally change the rules and play favs. BTW, if you think I was playing favs, who was my fav then? As for polite ways of saying people are wrong, and the presence of both polite and impolite, that is due to a couple of things. Lately I've been dicking with my meds again to see if I could get to proforming better in school. All it has done is left me with a trembling hand and a bad tude. Read some of my earlier posts. I wasn't always like this, and I'll probably be back to normal pretty soon. Sorry if I offended you.