Square Body Pickups In Title?

[special-K]

What's up with that? Is that for people who don't know what year they have?

I know it's prolly for the confusion created by changing to R/V designate for 88-91 Crew Cabs, '88 DRW 3500 pickups, and 88/89 cab & chassis 3500s. I hope it helps those who post by year and not truck design. I probably would have just gone with 1973-1987/88-91 RV Chevrolet & GMC Pickup, but it's not my website. It's funny, till recent years these were referred to as the "rounded body style". I always go by years of the design. When you change a name you create confusion. Always bugged me GM named the S10 "Blazer". They were more prevalent and every time I'd go for parts for my '90 Blazer they'd ask, "Full-size?", and I'd answer, "No, just Blazer. Not an S10 Blazer". Suddenly the vehicle built since '69 needed an explanation to not confuse with the new product.

[Warrens69GMC]

Always bugged me that Chevrolet named a truck line Silverado in the same years they had a trim package Silverado on a C/K truck line...

[TwoFiftyShifter]

That slang has really caught on Tim. There is a site called 73-87.com or similar, but think in this age the square body title is easier to remember?

The English language gets watered down every day anymore. I bet "rounded line" will continue to go by the wayside.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by special-K

What's up with that? Is that for people who don't know what year they have?

I know it's prolly for the confusion created by changing to R/V designate for 88-91 Crew Cabs, '88 DRW 3500 pickups, and 88/89 cab & chassis 3500s.

You'll notice we never did that again.

After that it was GMT400/800/900. We changed the model codes in order to differentiate between the new products and old.

K

PS: The day I joined the engineering team is the day they split the organization into the carryover C/K/R/V group and the GMT400 team.

I had no idea what was going on; my only thought was "...PLEASE don't send me back to the assembly plant!"

[Desert1957]

Originally Posted by keith seymore

my only thought was "...please don't send me back to the assembly plant!"

lol

[Keith Seymore]

I should add that when buying parts for my '87 R truck if I knew there was a common usage I would simply tell the parts guy it was an '86 C truck.

K

[95 S_Trucker]

Originally Posted by Warrens69GMC

Always bugged me that Chevrolet named a truck line Silverado in the same years they had a trim package Silverado on a C/K truck line...

They didn't overlap. The last year for the trim package was 98.

The trim levels on the 99 and 00 C/K trucks were WT/LS/LT, just like the Silverado from 99+.

My 99 is not a Silverado. There is nothing Silverado about it. It has cloth seats, carpet, power windows and locks, cruise and tilt. But its not a Silverado. Its a K2500 LS.

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

I should add that when buying parts for my '87 R truck if I knew there was a common usage I would simply tell the parts guy it was an '86 C truck.

K

That's what I do with my 99 when I get a parts guy that doesn't know as much as he should.





I did notice the change to square body a few months ago. In 73 when they came out, they were advertised as rounded line.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Warrens69GMC

Always bugged me that Chevrolet named a truck line Silverado in the same years they had a trim package Silverado on a C/K truck line...

Makes me feel old. I still sometimes slip up and call a Tahoe a "Blazer" and the guys at work look at me like "WTH?".

I remember being mad when they changed the name of the Girl Scout cookies from "Savannahs" to "Do Se Do's".