by Frscke1 Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:48 pmI met one of your members at the store today. He told me of this site. Its not an Early.
The '93
The government ordered it from GM and sent it down to Armortek in Texas, then up to Salt Lake City to Advanced Four Wheel Drive Systems for a 1 ton GMC front end. Then they gave it to the Cuban diplomats in Miami for 3 years then Nevada got it to look for oil in Elko, NV. Then the Utah Olympics took it and put 10k in the upholstery, paint and drive line. Four months after that, I got it in an auction for $12,500. It has bullet-resistant glass and steel plates in the walls. (I found that out when I pulled the carpet off the walls and a 3/8” A-R plate fell out. That plate at the scrapyard paid for the interior.)
'93 G30 454 4x4 EXT, 4l80E, np205, 4-56 spacers in a DANA front and GM Corp rear, Bilstein 5100s, BFG 315/75/16, 146" wheelbase. This was all factory or government, well almost. I have increased the tire size to mellow The Beast, but it’s still way more motor than tire. They only made three. It’s a two-seater. I ripped out the four bench seats, diamonded the floor, oaked the walls and added fishing rod racks, limousine roof, 12 speaker 1000 watt Sony surround, exercise bike, telescope that you can count the rings of Saturn and, oh yea, a hammock to sleep in and watch the stars.
In February 2011 it made Hot Rod and Truckin’ magazines and then Drive magazine two months later. Since then it’s made Custom 4x4, Extreme 4x4 and Thunders Garage.
The Beast did 270 miles of the Baja 1,000 in ’03 as a chase truck (got 8 MPG). I went from here to Tucson and back in 10 hours and last May I took a seven week road trip to the Florida Keys and back, 6,700 miles (got 14 MPG). I have two of these: one for the dirt and one for the street. The other is a '92 G30 454 EXT.
The '92
Seven years later, I went and fell head over heels for the one I found online in Iowa. I couldn’t resist the VIN#.
The '93 - 2GAGG39N4P4116494
The '92 - 2GAGG39N0N4112343
The day I flew to Iowa in February 2010, a '92 G30 454 was frozen to the tundra. I have been doing the transformation to the “mobile hotel room.” This van is being built to follow NASCAR around the country for a few years, and hopefully, I can get a drag race in.
The '93
The government ordered it from GM and sent it down to Armortek in Texas, then up to Salt Lake City to Advanced Four Wheel Drive Systems for a 1 ton GMC front end. Then they gave it to the Cuban diplomats in Miami for 3 years then Nevada got it to look for oil in Elko, NV. Then the Utah Olympics took it and put 10k in the upholstery, paint and drive line. Four months after that, I got it in an auction for $12,500. It has bullet-resistant glass and steel plates in the walls. (I found that out when I pulled the carpet off the walls and a 3/8” A-R plate fell out. That plate at the scrapyard paid for the interior.)
'93 G30 454 4x4 EXT, 4l80E, np205, 4-56 spacers in a DANA front and GM Corp rear, Bilstein 5100s, BFG 315/75/16, 146" wheelbase. This was all factory or government, well almost. I have increased the tire size to mellow The Beast, but it’s still way more motor than tire. They only made three. It’s a two-seater. I ripped out the four bench seats, diamonded the floor, oaked the walls and added fishing rod racks, limousine roof, 12 speaker 1000 watt Sony surround, exercise bike, telescope that you can count the rings of Saturn and, oh yea, a hammock to sleep in and watch the stars.
In February 2011 it made Hot Rod and Truckin’ magazines and then Drive magazine two months later. Since then it’s made Custom 4x4, Extreme 4x4 and Thunders Garage.
The Beast did 270 miles of the Baja 1,000 in ’03 as a chase truck (got 8 MPG). I went from here to Tucson and back in 10 hours and last May I took a seven week road trip to the Florida Keys and back, 6,700 miles (got 14 MPG). I have two of these: one for the dirt and one for the street. The other is a '92 G30 454 EXT.
The '92
Seven years later, I went and fell head over heels for the one I found online in Iowa. I couldn’t resist the VIN#.
The '93 - 2GAGG39N4P4116494
The '92 - 2GAGG39N0N4112343
The day I flew to Iowa in February 2010, a '92 G30 454 was frozen to the tundra. I have been doing the transformation to the “mobile hotel room.” This van is being built to follow NASCAR around the country for a few years, and hopefully, I can get a drag race in.
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