You have seen it plenty of times on these pages. A car or truck that looks perfect, has personality, has the right interior, sits like a million bucks, and then the engine is a total downer. Either something that everyone else has or something that is kind of lame because it is overkill. This truck is the missing link. This is the one with all of the other stuff AND the perfect engine. How perfect? Try a turbocharged 250ci Chevy inline six on for size! This truck was built with loving care by a guy named Shad Meier and he has cruised it dutifully for years. Why is he selling? He wants to build something new and frankly we’re happy for him and selfishly for ourselves. If he turned this piece out so nicely, what’s next?
Shad’s a guy from the heartland who understands trucks and maybe it sounds lame but a guy that knows trucks is the guy who builds one like this. It has personality because of the fact that there’s some rust showing on the nose but it is structurally sound and perfectly safe to cruise down the road. It maintains the spartan 1966 C10 interior that GMC installed in the thing on the assembly line but that interior is hiding a couple of modern amenities and then there’s the engine and transmission. The transmission is a 700R4 automatic that was freshly built and uses a converter matched correctly to the engine.
That mill is a 250 Chevy that is being force fed by the turbocharger off of a Grand National and has been built specifically for the cause here. Using good TRW pistons, a COMP cam, Offy intake, and other nice pieces like ARP studs, there’s a healthy little inliner in there making enough power t be hilarious and not over the top.
We’re completely in love with this truck and you should be too.
Click the link below the images to see the full eBay ad for this killer 1966 C10 –
Nice work! Reminds me how much I need to finish my Dart’s turbo 225.
That engine compartment looks clean! Too bad rust has taken its toll on the body.
That rust is insignificant. This series of GM truck is very prone to rust, and this one has very little, and it appears to have none in the usual locations.
Makes me miss my ’63 GMC
I thought all GMC’s came with V-6’s back then
No, very few of them came with v8’s. Most had these straight 6’s or v6’s.
boost on an intake that could not hold its washers as n/a..
my only doubt.
maybe the raised boost heat brings the battle a little closer between exhaust and intake.
the offy intake was a great choice.
I do not believe 63 had a 250… it had something else , not sure. 230 something?
How much and where is it?
This is just cool. Makes me wish I had done this instead of putting a ’57 corvette 283ci in mine…….
My sack itches.