Longbox55

The real reason that manuals went to the wayside in full size trucks is that the sales were far too low. Even commercial use customers, who tend to be a cheap lot, opted for automatics, as many folks these days do not know how to drive one. Manual transmission operation isn't even taught in Drivers Ed anymore. It's something I have to put up with every day when a manual trans vehicle comes in, as out of the 9 people that work at the shop I work at (1 manager, 3 on the counter, 4 mechanics, and a stock room/oil change tech), only 2 of us know how to drive manual transmission.

Ahh, but even then the trick would be finding one on the lot. Not sure about your area, but around here, seems all the dealerships stock are extended/crew cabs, almost always with a 5'-6 1/2' bed and loaded with every doo-dad and goo-gaw they offer. Can't even get a standard cab shortbed without special ordering it.

What I want to know is when are they going to bring back the standard cab, 8 foot box, bare bones truck? Preferably with 4wd, V8 and an actual MANUAL TRANSMISSION with Granny Gear! Guess I'll just stick with my '55, which is much better looking anyway.

That's pretty much the reason, to match the cab pillars. Plus there was the fact that the Cameo, as well as its GMC stablemate Town & Country, were considered to be the Truck equivalent of the Corvette and Nomad. Of note, all Cameo/Town & Country trucks were 2 tone, with the '55 Cameo being the only one with only 1 color scheme option. Also, the inside bedsides being the secondary color was a Cameo/T&C only feature, the standard pickups used the trucks primary color on the bedsides with a flat black bed floor.

Exactly! While I do see some styling cues that are similar, the 'Vette wheel has a different shape to the wheel itself (no hand grip bumps like the Cobalt). IIRC, the diameter is different, too.

I've never seen a Cobalt steering wheel in any Corvette.

While the "brand identification" theory sounds good, the Corvette already has its own brand identitiy regarding taillights. If anything, it would make more sense for brand identity to put the flagship Corvette style round taillights on the Camaro than the other way around.

I've driven one! No quite fast enough for me, though.

The GMC V6 shares no parts with the W engine. It was not a "cut down" 348 or 409. In fact, the V6 actually dwarfs the W engine, and even the Mark IV engine that came after it, being a few inches longer and taller, as well as weighing in at around the 800 pound mark, dry. The block is a 60 degree Y block, with a deep skirt at the bottom of the block, unlike the Chevrolet engine, which is a 90 degree block with no skirt. There V6 came in 305, 351, 401, and 478 ci displacements, plus the was a 637 cid V8 based on the same block in addition to the 702 cid V12. The 351 and 478 V6 and the 637 V8 blocks also saw use as Deisels, using the same block with different pistons, heads, and intakes. Jolly Goodfellow's site is probably the best reference source for these engines. http://www.6066gmcguy.org/gmcv6a.htm

BMF does not work very well with a laser printer (I tried it). Using one of the foils secifically made for printing on might be a better route.

LT-5 from the '90-'95 Corvette ZR-1. The one you have is from an AMT kit, which was as I recall was a '90, unless it's from the "recall" "'89" version of that kit.

It's not a Photoshop, it's the G8 Sport Truck concept from a few years back. GM axed Pontiac before it went into production. I have heard rumors it still may see production as a Chevrolet once the Caprice/SS goes into production.

Here's another one; Using the terms "Stepside" and "Fleetside" when describing what type beds a truck has, regardless of brand. Technically, Stepside and Fleetside and Chevrolets. GMCs are Fenderside and Wideside, Fords are Flareside and Styleside, Dodge is Utiline and Sweptside, Jeep had the Thriftside and Townside. IH doesn't seem to have had an official name for it's beds, but refer to them as Standard or flush side in the brochures. I don't know for sure about Studebaker, either.

The original term was "Suped-Up", as in "Super". Not sure where the spelling got changed.

Probably not. From what I could see, there's no drawbar or 3 point hitch on it, only a ball style wagon hitch.

Actually, I have the dinosaur parked for the winter, and got out the Woolley Mammoth!

I've been seeing the same problems, even after switching my browser over to Google Chrome as several suggested. It seems to be an intermittant problem.

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5 speed main trans, 4 speed auxillary, 20 total forward gears.

Any good hobby shop should have them, as well as most hardware stores. Also, try farm and hardware stores that sell welding supplies.

No, it wasn't. I talked to the owner, the frame was purpose built for that truck cab.

Does this look "hobbled together with parts from the junk pile"? Under that chopped flat black Studebaker truck cab is a full IMSA stock car chassis. Hardly "junk pile" parts.

Ma's Resin has BF Goodrich Mud Terrains http://public.fotki.com/cnaind/truck-tires--wheels/off-road--pickup-tires/1001115.html

I see what you mean. But then again, it is a second offence of the rule. They let it slide the first time, with only the warning.