I’m going to go out on a limb here, but this might be one of the very few Chevrolet LUV trucks in the Western Washington area that my stepdad didn’t get his hands on. It’s low enough, it’s wild enough, but out of the many LUVs that he owned, none were small-block swapped, none were this shade of yellow and I promise you that not one of them had the interior covered in cow pattern. That being said, I had to do a double-take the second I saw the “Bremerton Raceway” sticker…it’s not a well-known track, but Bremerton Raceway brings out some excellent local racing and for a few years was one of my haunts…if I wasn’t hustling suckers with loud mouths with my Regal, I was auto crossing at the other end of the airfield. Kind of miss that place….but I’m getting off of the subject.
In automotive news right now, Isuzu is partnering up with Mazda to build a pickup truck for the world market. Isuzu has done this for decades, but usually they partnered up with General Motors…that’s where the original LUV truck came from: it’s an Isuzu Faster pickup truck with a bow-tie in the grille. And they’re neat little rides for what they are: light, useable, and pretty durable. But the 75-horsepower four-banger isn’t going to put so much as a ripple in your cup of coffee. We all know what fixes that. Say it with me now: “V8 Swap!” We will let the seller take it from here:
“This truck has approx 2 dozen passes on the engine. Straight body with classic lines. Fast n loud, can be street driven.
350 Chevrolet bored .60 over, balanced rotating assembly (with paperwork), roller rockers, flat top pistons = 11:1 compression. 286 Comp cam, HEI distributer with MSD 6al ignition. Milodon hi capacity oil pan,
194 camel hump heads with port and polish job/stainless valves.
750 dbbl pumper with four corner idle-no choke. Single plane Street Dominator intake and Hooker headers.
Double flex electric fan.
Turbo 350 with stage II shift kit. B&M Pro Stick shifter.
Ford 9in rear with 4:11 Eaton posi, Dutchman 31 spline axles. Drive shaft loop. Traction bars.
Weld racing wheels with Micky Thompson ET 10.5″ street slicks.
Art Morrison 6pt. roll cage. G-Force 5pt. harness (harness may be out of date).
New RCI 12 gallon fuel cell. Red Holly fuel pump with braided stainless lines.
Bed mount battery with remote shutoff switch.
Autometer guages.
Owned/built and driven for the last 20 years.”
Sounds like a lot of fun, and at just under $9,000 dollars, an excellent bargain. They even have timeslips in the eBay auction to prove that this little yellow truck can run the numbers. We’d have no trouble with 95% of this screaming yellow zonker…that cow-print interior, on the other hand…
eBay Link: 1976 Chevrolet LUV
Cowhide interior just killed the deal!
Same here.
Well, that’s definitely building an Isuzu faster…
I don’t mind the cow pattern interior. It looks like he’s just not taking racing TOO seriously, and that’s OK in my books.
I’d rock that cow all day and all night(drags)
if it had a race seat, you’d lose the suckers – but as you pointed out, taking money from the mouths is what pays so you can play. The cow would suggest that the person didn’t know what they were doing, and the suckers would come running. Recently I saw someone get the b-cheeks smacked up around their ears when there were going off on someone with a nasty 240z, sbc, but it had stamped steel valve covers. Looked sedate, sounded okay, ran like stink…. much to the chagrin of the mouth (now) with earmuffs.
Small truck with a V8 that “goes 10’s”. Where have I heard that before?? hmm….
Apart from looking like it was painted with a roller, this looks like big fun!
Am I missing it? I see a bunch of slips that say low 12s at 110-111.
$9000? Cheap entry into LSR. Update the belts and drop it a little.