My uber rare 1966 GMC Suburban Discovery

[gmccollector]

Well I guess there's always an exception ?! LOL . Was looking for something else and found this Protecto Plate on a 1966 GMC Panel I have. Has the Dymo Tape with the stamping of the owners name. Interestingly , my 65 Chevy has the stamping but my 66 Chevy K20 does not.

[GMCNUT]

I'll be darned. So looks like this was just a dealer-to-dealer issue where some were simply too lazy to do the Dymo tape or the machine was out of tape, broken etc. It was simply not important enough to matter really since the owners name was on everything else obvious enough. Thanks for sharing Jon

[ron david]

here is a Canadian GMC protecto-plate


I do not understand what uber rare means. a 66 suburban is not really a rare vehicle!
Is this suburban a repaint?
ron

[ron david]

this is the vehicle from with the previous protecto-plate came from. it is a Canadian built
GMC that was stretched to a 145" w/base for an amulance

and the next pic is from when it was new and this pic was taken from a book on Canadian built ambulances

ron

[GMCNUT]

Originally Posted by ron david

here is a Canadian GMC protecto-plate


I do not understand what uber rare means. a 66 suburban is not really a rare vehicle!
Is this suburban a repaint?
ron

You are actually dead on with that comment Ron - I should have said "rarely equipped" or something. The 66 Suburban itself is not a rare vehicle at all - there are still quite a few left today from the original production run, but finding one today that is still in-tact as it was from day one equipment and option-wise would be considered a rarity among the surviving suburbans left, and certainly rare to see one with so many options - even when these trucks were new very very very few came with all the options this one has, so that is the basis for me adding the "uber" wording to the title. For all you or I know this may be the only surviving suburban of its kind that actually came from the factory so heavily equipped....can't be many that's for sure
It is a repaint - sort of what I call a "scuff and shoot" job. It will get it repainted this Spring to one of the two-tone choices from the 1966 GMC color chart.

[F4Phantom]

Sure is a great find!!

[GMCNUT]

Adding a couple update pics - I changed the weathered V6 and Custom badges out for nice repainted ones I had stashed, and replaced the tires with new whitewalls, but the four original hubcaps looked like they came off the Titanic, so I spent about 2 hrs scrubbing 50 years of tough to remove oxidization off them and then stuck em back on - they are terribly beat up, but they are not reproduced and all I have to work with until one of you guys pipes up saying you have some to sell me LOL

[Funky61]

Looks great and hopefully some better hubcaps will show up for you.

[GMCNUT]

I hope so Funky - so you mentioned the crank pully earlier in this thread - at the time the burb was still at the mechanic shop so I wasn't sure, but it is indeed a double groove typical power steering pully with a single add-on pully for the A/C.

[duallyjams]

Bump for the seat update.