[Oletrucks] Silverado fuel consumption

[Gale Gorman]

I was a participant in that thread and agree we needed to keep it relative to this list.

All we had to do was preface the remarks with "I have this engine, transmission, and rear end in my '49 GMC..."

-- 
Gale Gorman
Houston




On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Robert Bostelaar wrote:

Do hear you, Miq, but have to admit, the gas mileage discussion has
been most interesting!



> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:31 -0700
> From: Miq Millman <miq at bigllama.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oletrucks] 84 Silverado

> This discussion is borderline on topic.  While an '87 is indeed an old
> truck to have on the road these days, it doesn't qualify as an
> "Oletruck"--that's reserved for Task Force and Advance Design series
> (1941-1959).  There are other discussion mailing lists out there for
> the later gen models, and if you have model specific queries they
> might be better addressed there.
> 
> You can narrow your search by looking for 3rd generation C/K (1973-1987).
> 
> The C/K serieses ran from 1960 through 1999.  1st gen was 1960-1966,
> characterized by the protruding hood and trapezoid shaped wheel arch.
> 2nd gen was 1967-1972, the round arch years.  3rd gen had dual
> verticle headlamps and square wheel arches.
> 
> For now, since many of the oletruckers have later v8's in their
> trucks, this discussion may be of interest, but don't stray too far
> into specifics on C/K 3rd and expect to see a lot of support here.
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