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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 4 | Howdy. My name is John and I am the proud owner of a 1972 GMC Sprint. The "car" (can't quite bring myself to call it a truck) was purchased for my teenage son but is too much a project for him so I bought it back from him. It runs well, we drove it from NC to Miami, and has a very nice interior but has some serious rust issues. It came with one quarter panel to install and will need various other patch panels.
Incidentally, my "backyard truck" is a 1994 V-6 GMC C-1500. Quite a few years ago, I owned a project '57 GMC that I gave to my dad when he wanted something to play with. That turned out to be too much for him and I gave him one of my Alfa's instead that needed much less work. Ended up selling the GMC without doing much more than installing a 350/400 in it and getting it to move under its own power. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 | Welcome John, those trucks are quite rare. Someone else here recently had one, had the SP option. So now you and your son can work on it together. I hope you can fix the rust issues. Good luck. Leo | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Welcome to the Stovebolt, John. There are quite a few GMC guys here so watch for them. As your no stranger to mechanic's I'm sure you'll fit in and maybe even teach us a thing or two.
Post any questions you may have in the garage forum and let us help you with your problems. | | | | | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 | Welcome to Stovebolt!! I recently picked up a '72 Sprint as well... Unique critters, but that's what makes 'em fun! Anyway, make yourself at home, and try not to let the Stovebolt fever take over.... Otherwise you'll have too many projects!! 
1949 Dodge Coronet 1955 2nd Chevy 4400 1.5 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1957 Chevy 5400 LCF 2 ton 1966 Dodge D100 Sweptline 1968 Chevy P20 stepvan 1969 GMC LWB pickup 1972 GMC Sprint 1974 CP30 shorty bus There are three things that I've learned never discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.----Linus Van Pelt Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9  | | | | | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 4 | Thanks, y'all. Funny thing, based on my search for car forums, I thought this was a GMC forum but I see it is also for Chevy. In that case, back in the early '90s, I bought a somewhat ratty '67 C10 from a friend. It was painted in black rattle-can primer and was pushed along by a tired 283 and three-on-the-tree. When the 283 gave out, I bought a 4-bolt 350 and TH400 out of a Chevelle. I built up the engine pretty nicely including having a very competent shop do the heads. With that in the C10 and the black primer, I had a pretty nice little sleeper. Snapped a universal the first time I stood on it at all. Sold it to a friend that was seriously lusting for it and made a good deal in a trade for cash plus a pretty silly little Toyota pickup with a 305 shoehorned in. This was before these '67 pickups started appreciating. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,061 Big Bolt Forum Moderator | | Big Bolt Forum Moderator Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,061 | | | |
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