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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
In case you wanted an El Camino but just couldn’t abide Chevrolet emblems, GMC offered the essentially identical Sprint and Caballero.
With a touch of sarcasm, the legendary racer Smokey Yunick—a GMC truck dealer himself for many years—once wrote that GMC was the only vehicle with two complete teams of engineers: Chevrolet designed the trucks, and GMC designed the hub caps and ash trays. While his salty observation wasn’t technically accurate or literally true, necessarily, he did have a point. Many GMC light vehicles were unequivocal Chevrolet clones, differing only in the names on the trim pieces.
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Ackshuaalllly - Smokey would be incorrect.
The Chevrolet engineers did the GMC touches, too. There was no GMC engineering at all; only marketing.
RPO Z88 = GMC nameplate conversion
RPO X88 = Chevrolet nameplate conversion
RPO Z75 = Cadillac nameplate conversion
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Last edited by Keith Seymore; 12-12-2023 at 04:29 PM.
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