| [GMCnet] Ebay no reserve GMC in Orange, CA [message #104798] |
Mon, 01 November 2010 19:41  |
tmaki
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Registered: September 2005
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I just got back from looking at it.
The place is a charity donation seller. Signage around the
place indicates M.A.D.D.
They must have 250-300 cars and trucks sitting in what
anybody would mistake as a police impound yard.
Their Ebay seller ID is MRE92626. Many cars and trucks to go
online in the next few days. Another interesting one is a
'66 (maybe '67) Toronado - rough, but interesting.
This GMC:
Entertain no fantasies as to potential. Interior is rough.
It has a ShurFlo water pump, GE house type refrigerator,
4-burner Coleman range, Suburban furnace. Nothing was
operable as battery (engine starting only) was alive enough
to only get a couple of slow "rrr-rrr" out of it.
The fuel pump is shiny, so it has been replaced and coach
has not been on the road much since. The engine may be a 403
transplant, as it has HEI distributor, air filter housing,
etc. Engine doesn't seem to sit in the space the way my 455
does - who knows. Many intake manifold vacuum ports are
plugged. I did smell gas at the carburetor, but there was
nothing from the accel pump. Couldn't start it - not enough
battery to crank. The coach is buried behind about three
other rows of vehicles with barely enough room to get between.
Factory ID plate has been removed. Build card was still
attached to the glove box door and very readable. Standard
build options listed, nothing notable except maybe the
trailer wiring package.
Exterior is rough, but not beat to death.
In terms of a usable, drivable coach, you might be able to
drive it home if you lived no further away than I do (about
45 miles ATCF).
In terms of a parts donor, definitely. If one could get it
for under $1000, and needed parts that would cost that much
or more, it would be a deal.
I suspect that this one will show up on Ebay again - as
parts. Maybe not, though. An enterprising zealot could bring
it back.
There you go.
Toby Maki
'73 Glacier 230
Riverside, CA
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