1982 GMC Sierra C1500

Chuck Most · June 15

Dennis Brown bought a brand new Sierra in 1982, the only new vehicle he ever bought. After he passed away in 1992, it spent a lot of time just sitting at his old farm. When the Brown family sold the land in 2009, Dennis's granddaughter Danielle Corradi got the old Sierra.

With the help of her father Gil, she got the truck running in time for her 17th birthday, and by the time she graduated in 2012, the original 305 and 4 speed had been swapped out for a 1990 350 (retrofitted with a 4 barrel intake) and 5 speed, tge interior was refreshed, and the truck was lowered and rolling in some aftermarket Chevy Rally wheels.

Other than keeping it up, Danielle doesn't do much other than drive the wheels off of it. Even though she never actually met her grandfather, the family connection and her own attachment to the truck have pretty much guaranteed the old GMC isn't going to leave the family anytime soon.

This is the MPC Deserter '84 GMC, and I had raided a bunch of parts from it, so I built the rest as a curbside. The '82 grille came from an old MPC glue bomb. It's sitting on printed AMT Firestone tires and 1967 Camaro wheels. Paint is distressed Krylon Italian Olive, with a Best Model Car Parts plate and fender badges from Rays Kits Decals North America. Inside is a narrowed Moebius F100 bench seat with Gopher camo decals and a floor shifter from a GMT 400 kit.