OK, a little history for ya on the 5.7 Diesel. What are your thoughts on this very rare GMC Caballero Amarillo diesel?
Factor in a diesel and transmission upgrade, this would be a heck of a sleeper. Overall, this diesel-equipped Caballero is in nice condition, and if the price can be negotiated, this car-based pickup would be an unusual sight. The aftermarket floor-mats look a bit out of place, but aside from swapping the driver’s-side mat for a new one, I would leave them in for protection.
The interior is nicely spec’d with power steering, power brakes, power windows, tilt wheel, and AM/FM radio with cassette player. The inside of this Caballero is in good condition, though the steering wheel looks a bit weathered. Though the outside has been repainted, the inside is all-original, with gray cloth seats, gray carpeting, and the rest of the interior in a dark green-gray. I would also shelve the TH-350 for a 700R4 or a 4L80. The Oldsmobile diesel is considered the bane among GM engines (especially diesels), and unless this Caballero has really low miles, I would swap in a 6.2L or a 6.5L diesel a Duramax swap would be nice too, but reportedly that would require a lot of fabrication work. Debuting in 1980 and lasting until 1985, the 5.7L Oldsmobile diesel V8 was rated at 105 horsepower and 205 lb-ft of torque, and was backed by the three-speed automatic only. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of the engine and drivetrain, but the Caballero is powered by the very rare 5.7L Oldsmobile diesel and backed by a three-speed automatic transmission (most likely a TH-350). Here’s a look at the inside of the bed, which is painted to match the two-tone outside of the truck. The car-based pickup recently was professionally repainted in two-tone green and dark green, and features chrome bed rails and stainless trim, dual sport mirrors, and steel wheels with wire hubcaps and thin white-line tires, all of which are in flawless condition. This Caballero is a 1984 model, and features the Amarillo (Spanish for yellow I was an A+ Spanish student in high school) trim package, sans the yellow color on this car-based pickup. When the El Camino was redesigned in 1978, the Sprint was renamed Caballero (Spanish for “gentleman”) and was produced from 1978 to its swan-song year of 1987. GMC got the green light to produce its own version, which was called the Sprint, beginning in 1971 the Sprint was basically a rebadged El Camino with minor trim and name changes and was produced from 1971 to 1977. Though Pontiac produced a few prototypes of their own version of the El Camino (a 1959 Catalina and a 1968 LeMans), General Motors would not produce a production badge-engineered version of the El Camino until 1971.
Find it here on Hemmings in Lamar, South Carolina, with an asking price of $8,500. This 1984 GMC Caballero not only features the unusual Amarillo package, it is also equipped with the very rare 5.7L diesel V8. One of the more emphasized engines used in cars in the late 1970s and early 1980s was the diesel engine, which had been used for a while in European cars and trucks and some American trucks, but had not been used much (if at all) in American passenger cars. For those who are old enough, remember the OPEC oil embargoes that happened back in the 1970s? After two oil embargoes (first in 1974, and then in 1979) rocked the United States, fuel-efficient engines and downsized cars replaced the dinosaur-sized American automobiles and their huge engines.
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