GMC Syclone and Typhoon

It all started way back in 1990 for me. Maybe even before then. Hot Rod, Car Craft or one of those magazines was showing the S-10 pickup with a 3.8 liter Grand National engine. When the truck finally did end up getting produced, instead of the honestly better Buick 3.8 liter engine, it came with a turbocharged version of the 4.3 liter V6 Chevrolet/GMC engine.

 When the trucks first came out in 1991, my familys business was exporting to Japan, and we had one customer that purchased a couple of them. The GMC Sylone had a short run, of only really one year. There were a couple of 1992's, but just a few.  For 1992 GM released the GMC Typhoon. The Typhoon was the SUV version of the Sylone. A little more practical than a turbocharged all wheel drive pickup that doesn't haul anything but ass.

My Typhoon, and a Japan bound Typhoon

I got my Typhoon in December 1992. It was a little less than a year old, with about 30,000 miles on it.  From then, I spent a lot of time with it, drag racing, street racing, and cruising all around the US.  Eventually it would end up getting stolen, recovered, and I would blow the engine up one last time. That was around 1999, and since then the truck has been parked. Pretty sad.

Sometime, I think it was around 1997-1998, I got a GMC Syclone. It had some issues, had been repainted gunmetal grey, missing driveshaft and some other pieces.  I drove that for a while, hurt the engine, rebuilt it once. Broke the trans a few times.  The last time I broke it, I parked it, and its been parked since. Both trucks need some fixing, and some motivation to actually do it.  My involvement with the Skyline GT-R, took a lot of my time, and money.  Now I need to start working on them again.