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Mobile homes GMC Collectible
In the 1970s, General Motors entered the RV market. Drawing on the exuberance of the era, the company decided to create the ultimate in American cars. Their goal was to produce a luxury car with cutting edge design and construction, and not just another competitor in the market already crowded vacation vehicle.
The common understanding at that time was a unit of boxy, ungainly and top-heavy on a truck chassis. The GMC vehicle was intended to be a completely new design in every sense. Design work began in 1970 with market introduction planned for 1973. “Do not look like a box or roll like a truck” was the slogan ad GMC.
The new vehicle would be unusual for this time of several ways. First, it was to have a front wheel drive, a rare concept in cars of that day and unheard-of in mobile homes.
The drive train and suspension were taken in the design of the Oldsmobile Toronado. The 265 horsepower engine 455 cubic inch Oldsmobile was attached to a Turbohydramatic 425 of transmission of a torsion bar suspension.