Brazilian made Chevrolet S-10

[Lovefordgalaxie]

The Chevrolet S-10 was launched in Brazil in December 1994 as a new for 1995 model.

The truck was basically the U.S. S-10 with a Brazilian designed front end and bed sides to make it look more like the cars GM was making here at the time (Opel Astra, Opel Vectra, Opel Corsa, Opel Omega, all badged as Chevrolets)

This redesign was later used by another GM subsidiary, ISUZU on their own version of the S-10, the Isuzu Hombre. Parts like headlights front bumper plastic covers, hoods, front fenders, bed sides, and some other details were exported from Brazil to Isuzu plants during the first six months of production.

I bought my S-10 new in July 1998. She was a special series with a limited run of 1200 units, celebrating the World Cup (soccer)

They could be bought in blue with yellow stripes, or in metallic green with yellow stripes, very patriotic.

The series was called Champ98. Unfortunatelly, Brazil lost the Cup to France...

Well, at least the truck was good.

I was only going to make a test drive, but ended leaving the dealer with a brand new truck. I think that that nice V6 seduced me LOL!!!

Anyway, I only did one modification, I replaced the factory tires by white letter Pirelli Scorpions.

The truck has today 13,700 kilometers on the clock. that's less than 10.000 miles from new.

This year I decided to re install the factory tires, Firestone FSRs and she is now 100% original again.

Never used her on the rain, or on a bad road. Never used the bed, never had the nerve to scratch that shiny green paint, and she looks so good all shinny the way she is.

The V6 is thirsty tough. My Galaxie goes a lot longer with a liter of gasoline.

YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYaiT-zAps

Back to the factory tires:

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

[Luc Janssens]

Looks good, great to see what's been produced in south America, a former co worker was in Brazil for a while for a GM project, that sadly didn't make it to our production facility.

He did bring with him a brochure with the then current lineup from GM do Brazil...

[Guest]

That's does look like our version of an Isuzu Hombre. It must have a 4.3 if your Galaxie gets better mileage.

Edited January 5, 2014 by plowboy

[clovis]

Very cool!

I have a US built S-10 of that vintage, but mine is just an old worn out truck.

Any chance you could post a picture of the back of the truck?

What size of engine does your truck have?

[disabled modeler]

Pretty cool Tulio...nice little truck.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

The engine is a 4.3 liter V6.

Some more pictures:

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

And those I took when I was changing the oil, the same day I put the factory tires back on her.

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

My S-10 par Túlio Lazzaroni Lovefordgalaxie, on ipernity

[lordairgtar]

Nice caminhão

[doggie427]

Beautiful truck Tulio !

IIRC didn't GM make a 4-dr cab version of the S-10 for Brazil ?? I would LOVE one of those ....

Edited January 5, 2014 by doggie427

[my80malibu]

Nice truck. Interesting location for the oil filter. I have never seen one remotely located like that before.

[crazyjim]

The front end almost Ford Rangerish.

[espo]

Looks brand new. A couple of things I noticed in addition to the remote oil filter. I see a cover on the spare tire under the bed. Looks nice but I would think under normal usage it might fill up with dirt and mud.

[mikemodeler]

Very nice, looks like you could eat off the bed! That is one way to keep a truck looking like new!

Very interesting on the oil filter mount. I remember my 88 S-10 with the 4.3 4WD had the remote filter on the left fenderwell but the 91 2WD I replaced it with it was mounted on the engine.

[Ford guy]

Nice looking Pickup Tulio! That green is cool. You don't see any car in that good of shape after 15 years very often. Great job keeping her so nice.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Thanks guys!!

I have no idea why the oil filter is remote, but it came from the factory that way.

maybe they thought that the torsion bars would get in the way of the filter at the engine location? nave no idea, because even tough there is not much space the filter could be there with ease.

Yes, all our S-10s had the torsion bar suspension, 4WD or 2WD.

Yep, we had a four door cab. Still have but now it's a totally different truck.

When I bought mine the engine options were the 2.2 litre, the 4.3 litre and a 2.5 litre diesel.

[Skydime]

That looks exactly like an Hombre with a Chevy insert in the grille. I'd love to have an Hombre bed for my truck for the fat fenders.

[Fabrux]

I think that the international S-10 parts came before the Hombre; the South American S-10s and Blazers had this front clip and rear quarters as well as Russian Blazers, IIRC.

[clovis]

Thank you for the additional pics!!

It is very interesting to see a 'foreign' S-10.

Awesome truck!!!!

Thanks for sharing!!!!!