HotWheelsBurban
Gotta have 4 doors..... Rawhide, TOTY 2023!
Yes I agree with you on the idea of using up the old truck parts supply in the factory assembly plants. I think that is part of why both my 99 Burbs were heavily optioned out. They are both LT trim, but I have seen other LTs that weren't that way. Maybe they weren't 99s?Don't know the answer, but GM typically does this on the last few years as they wind down production of current line up. Seems like 1500 trucks get first new body style, followed by SUVs/heavy trucks and lastly the vans. My theory is they must be using all of the spare parts they have left over and piece together trucks with that, LOL. That has changed on the last body styles, obviously.
So you had the "R/V" series, right? Those were carried over and GM designated them R/V so as not to confuse them with the C/K series they had just introduced. I "think" it was just 2500 series Suburbans and 2500/3500 trucks? Most of the ones I see were crew cabs. The V-series was the last solid front axle offered by GM. In retrospect, the R/V were kinda cool: "square body" with newer generation engines.
The R/V Burb, Blazer and crew cabs are the best of both worlds. Square body ease of service with TBI motor and overdrive in most cases. My 90 R2500 Burb was a 5.7 with a turbo 400 and 4.10 gears in a semi floating axle. Didn't have a third seat either, only square Burb I've seen like that. The truck had ants in the cargo area when we got it, so we had to pull the carpet out and clean it. Looked black but was actually blue! And no floor sockets for the seat....
Has anyone on here seen the article and cover story in Texas Monthly magazine, back in the late 80s I think, on the Suburban being named "the national car of Texas "? They show an R/V Burb on the cover IIRC. I had this mag back in the day, but lost a lot of my memorabilia and family photos in a house fire a couple years ago.