Picked up this little truck over the weekend. It reminds me some of the 76 Super Sport I had back in the day.
Drove it off with 90,001 miles on the clock. Came with a copy of the Fremont build sheet and a small block 400. Runs well.
If anyone has a 76 or 77 they are parting, I could use the shoulder retractor belts in black, someone knifed these.

 

Congrats. That thing is way cool and the wheels look really good on it. Colors are good too. Enjoy.

 

All you need is some blue doors and a white hood and you could flip it for big bucks as the truck from "My Name is Earl".

 

A good friend has a 3.08 posi lined up for me to replace the 2.73 one wheel peel that's in it now.

 

Looks good! I've always been a fan of those...never understood why they weren't more popular in North America especially with the way sport utes are everywhere in Australia.

 

Very cool!

 

Nice Elky!

I've got a 1973 Malibu with a nasty 383 Stroker. Love the forgotten Chevelles. When I got mine, NOBODY wanted them...now they seem to be quite sought after.

 

Tyroma, I also had a 76 chevelle. I found it in a parking lot on a college campus. A fella I knew on the force
looked up the owner for me, found her in town and bought it for $200. Someone had jacked up the starter wiring on it.
I had it running in about 20 minutes. That was a sweet deal. Drove it for 3 years or so and sold it for $600 to a buddy who wanted it.
Those were great cars. All 73-77 GM A bodies were very good quality cars. I had 5 Buick Regals as well. One had a 455.

 

Looks great Tru-Blue.

Sweet.

Yours looks great as well.

Time has been very kind to malaise era cars. They were pooh poohed when I was growing up. Myself, personally, I am a fan of their looks. Came close to buying a 73 Malibu coupe about 30 years ago. Grew up with one on our block, loved it ever since, especially because of the Corvette style tail lights.

 

I had no idea they were using 400s in 76. That’s a pretty cool truck man

 

YES! That's true. I read an article about them once. When GM designed them, they were anticipating a bunch of federal safety regulations that were proposed for the entire automobile industry. They were wayyy overbuilt to meet the standards and get ahead of the other manufacturers. But, then the new safety regulation proposal fell apart, and didn't get implemented. They improved the roof and structure for better rollover protection and had the industry's first 5mph crash-resistant bumpers. So, the result was a generation of Chevy/Olds/Buick/Pontiac cars that were built like tanks with passenger safety being a priority.

John DeLorean even had a hand in the design and significant upgrades in the car before he departed GM.

I like being being the only guy at a show/cruise night with one...and the old guys LOVE the swivel bucket seats!

 

I have had two 72 Cutlass convertibles and will say my 75 Hurst rides and handles way better than those cars did. If I were younger I would probably build a nice 455 to replace the smog motor and make it look completely stock or as close as I could. I would use a 4-speed automatic and put some gears in it.

 

I am not surprised that your 75 handles well. Mine does as well. When I got the car, it had the factory low horsepower 350 with 2.90 gears. When I rebuilt it, I built a stroker with a 355ci Chevy block.
The transmission got a healthy shift kit, and I installed a posi with 4.10 gears.

She runs the quarter mile in 13:20 on street tires with a lot of wheel spin the first hundred feet. Pretty good for a big heavy car. I think if I ran a set of slicks on it, I could probably get it into the 12s.

 

Did that car ever spend time in Kansas City that you know of?

 

I'm not sure. It was built in Fremont, sold new in Seattle and spent time in Helena Montana before making it South to Dripping Springs TX.

 

Probably not, then. Growing up, my neighbor had one just like it and he spent a bunch of money having metal work and paint done to it. I didn't get it at the time, late 80's-early 90's, because that body style wasn't all that popular then. But now, I really appreciate those cars. Looks very sharp!

 

There is one close to that year that I used to see at local car shows. It was white with red interior but had a 454 and a 4spd! Super cool, odd-ball car.