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Joakim3 11-05-2013 09:33 AM

FT86CLUB Cool Wall: GMC Syclone
 
GMC Syclone

http://betterparts.org/images/gmc-syclone-01.jpg

The Specs
Year: 1991
Style: 2-Door Pickup
Engine: 4.3L turbo V6 280hp@4400rpm 350lb-ft@3600
Transmission 4-speed auto
Layout: AWD

Burrcold 11-05-2013 10:08 AM

Meh I'm not a pickup guy. Uncool.

HunterGreene 11-05-2013 10:16 AM

Cool--its a limited edition, which helps, plus AWD in the early 90s is pretty fantastic.

OrbitalEllipses 11-05-2013 10:37 AM

Unique and pretty fast for it's day, cool.

strat61caster 11-05-2013 11:26 AM

Small trucks are always cool.

Unless they're ruined by owners.

n2oinferno 11-05-2013 01:29 PM

This and the Typhoon, both cool trucks. Weren't these the fastest production GM vehicles at the time they were made?

Trashed675 11-05-2013 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by n2oinferno (Post 1313924)
This and the Typhoon, both cool trucks. Weren't these the fastest production GM vehicles at the time they were made?

If i remember correctly, there was a high level GM bossman that compared these to the corvettes of the era in straight line speed and that there wasn't much of a difference.

Sleeper trucks are cool, plus it was fairly high tech for its time (awd/turbo), instead of just tossing in another 350/327, which were god awful at that time.

Dadhawk 11-05-2013 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trashed675 (Post 1314301)
If i remember correctly, there was a high level GM bossman that compared these to the corvettes of the era in straight line speed and that there wasn't much of a difference..

Wicked fast pickups are always cool...

I so wanted to do an LT1 swap on my old Chevy Astro but practicality got in the way.

There was a point in time in the '70s where the ONLY vehicle Dodge had that would go more than 110MPH was the Lil Red Express truck (below). It was even featured in shoot out with other cars in a "double the 55" speed limit article at the time against some pretty sexy supercars. Not sure which auto rag it was though, but it was one of the mainstream ones.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8525/8...e2ba7dd0_z.jpg

fatoni 11-07-2013 01:16 AM

every ten years or so, gm makes something that is super sleeper and super strange. its always cool.

reni 11-08-2013 03:43 AM

Not sure what's "sleeper" about a slammed truck with a body kit and huge pink stickers...

dem00n 11-08-2013 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by reni (Post 1319758)
Not sure what's "sleeper" about a slammed truck with a body kit and huge pink stickers...

0-60 in 4.3 seconds in 1991? Eh?

For a pickup truck?

Atropine 11-08-2013 05:21 PM

Those were silly fast.

ALSO, it was not hard to make em faster (as with all FI)

Another "sleeper" was the Buick GNX or Grand National.

OrbitalEllipses 11-08-2013 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atropine (Post 1320948)
Another "sleeper" was the Buick GNX or Grand National.

Ehhhhh everybody knows about those now. If I saw one, I'd never try to race it. Guys with Grand Nats take that shit real serious.


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