Reliving childhood vannin' through a junked 1973 GMC Rally STX passenger van - Autoweek
Most of my early-Generation-X peers grew up with full-sized Detroit station wagons, but my family never went the wagon route. Then, as so often happens with Upper Midwesterners, my parents visited California… and promptly flew home, quit their jobs, sold the house and cars, bought a van, and headed west to the San Francisco Bay Area. Within two weeks of their California vacation, we were in a brand-new Chevy van heading west on Interstate 80. So, at age six I was plucked from 20-below-zero Minnesota and delivered 2,500 miles away to 70-degrees-above zero California in a... The trip did not go so smoothly, due to a little black-ice mishap that involved the van sliding off the highway and flipping onto its room near Battle Mountain, Nevada (more on that incident in my E63 AMG wagon review , which covered some of the... So, all these thoughts of my family's beloved Chevy Beauville were in my mind when I spotted this GMC Rally STX in a Northern California wrecking yard. The Rally STX was the exact same van as the Beauville, but with different badging. Source: autoweek.com
