GTP Cool Wall: GMC Syclone

[Paulie]

I voted cool, it doesn't reach sub-zero because it's a truck and not a Ute. Utes are better.

 

[niky]

By all rights, should be seriously uncool... dowdy looking pick-up... and you really have to explain why these are special before people get it...

But I invoke the rule of personal preference: I think these things are the bee's knees. Mental little trucks. Faster than anything else on the road at the time down the quarter mile (in the right weather, at the right altitude, at the right dragstrip...), but stuck with a four-speed auto and a ludicrously low 126 mph speed limiter... oh... and absolutely useless as a pickup... with about as much cargo capacity as... as... a sportscar (thanks to the rear suspension).

So it's a two-door sportscar with a pick-up bed and a total lack of sex-appeal. Which means I love it. Subzero.

 

[Famine]

A fast truck with a deliberately mis-spelled name is still a truck with a deliberately mis-spelled name.

 

[exigeracer]

I've known a few people to have Sy's and they really do move like a stabbed rat

Only in Michigan would I hear this expression.

 

[astrosdude91]

Most of the Bros I see are running the Chevy Z71 extended cabs with straight pipes.

Or those second gen Dodge Rams with straight pipes and lift kits. Oh yeah, every other car in my high school parking lot.

 

[Bones Brigade]

My initial reaction is that it's uncool. Sporty trucks are almost always limited to douchy guys. But I just couldn't do it, so I voted cool.

 

[Adamgp]

Sub Zero.

Useless as a truck, as the tow rating was ~900lbs and payload rating was ~500lbs.

But it was very fast for 1991, and it was from the era (mid 80's to early 90's) where GM had a sense of humor.

 

[Cano]

The Syclone, Typhoon, Grand National/TTA, and F150 Lightning were the most insane things to come out of Detroit in a long while, and to an extent still are.

This. It was one of the mos6t unexpected places for Detroit high- performance to survive during sole really obscure times. Freaking sub-zero.

 

[Crazed_Coupe]

Buy it now for: $9,000, good condition

Good luck with that!

 

[mustangGT90210]

I dig it. Sub-zero because it's stupid fast and it's still a pickup.




"You can set my truck on fire, and roll it down a hill, and I still wouldn't trade it for a coupe DeVille"

 

[Tornado]

Buy it now for: $9,000, good condition

Good luck with that!

Indeed. I've never seen one for less than half that.