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- From: shadow@pro-haven.cts.com (Blaine Hufnagle)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: GM Truck Status?
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 03:38:14 -0600
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- Have any of you been following the debate about '73-'87 GM trucks?
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- If so, what have have you heard?
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- If you haven't, here's the partial scoop:
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- Some Naderite-type safety group has, in the last six months, started a
- hooplah about how GM's trucks from the model years in question are "The
- Pinto's of the Nineties." This has to do with the fact that GM designed the
- fuel tank(s) to reside outboard of the frame rails under the sides of the
- beds. This has the effect of, when involved in a side crash, bursting the
- fuel tank(s) and spraying fuel _everywhere._
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- Supposedly, any fix by GM will wind up costing them billyuns and billyuns
- (Thank you Mr. Sagan! ;) of dollars to implement, seeing as how there are
- millyuns and millyuns of these trucks out there, one of which belongs to me.
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- The thing I don't understand is this: Why the hooplah now? These trucks
- have been out of production for five years now. Why wasn't said "defect" (if
- it indeed *IS* a defect) corrected a year or two after production started, in
- '73? Why has this consumer group waited almost 20 years to do something?
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- does this sound as ludicrous to you as it does to me?
-
- -blaine
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- a.k.a. The Midnight Shadow | 1979 Chevy Urban Assault Vehicle
- Texas Aggie Bus Driver and proud of it! | 1982 Thomas Transit Liner bus
- Another Bodybuilder from HELL!! | 1982 Yamaha Vision DoD #7192
- "Mine is not to wonder why, Mine is but to look and cry....."
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