One of the trucks from the Wikipedia article? It's from 1992. I'm not exactly sure why, but I liked knowing that little bit of information. It makes me feel like I'm getting a peek into how the ...

Truck yeah! The US Postal Service on Tuesday unveiled a modern replacement for the iconic Grumman LLV mail truck that has been in use since the late 1980s. The new design consists of a waist-high f… ...

The LLV used the engine and chassis from a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck, sourced from General Motors. The aluminum body was designed and built by Northrop Grumman, an aerospace and defense company.

USPS trucks don’t have air bags or air conditioning. They get 10 mpg. And they were revolutionary. The Postal Service’s ‘Long Life Vehicles’ are going out in a blaze of glory: ‘Everybody ...

Grumman LLV Mail Truck: A Miserable Tin Can Designed by a Fighter Plane Company. Updated: 10 Apr 2022, 03:41 UTC • By: ... (LLV) has been in service, every single day since the mid-1980s.

The Grumman LLV mail carriers run on a chassis borrowed from Chevy’s S-10 pickup truck, which people have been modifying with LS engines since the beginning of time.

The Grumman LLV mail truck had only been on the roads since 1987, so it was still sort of hot news in the postal community, and Grumman was feeling pretty rich from their contract with the U.S ...

The LLV is based on the Chevrolet S10 chassis, powered by GM's objectively terrible Iron Duke 4 cylinder engine, which is bolted to a three-speed automatic transmission.

The Grumman LLV was supposed to have a 20-year lifespan, but that was upped to 30 years in 2009. While the vehicles did the job admirably during that time, we're long past the point where the ...

The iconic Grumman LLV mail truck is on its way out, and sadly, few of these ex-USPS trucks are making it into private hands.If we could get them, maybe we’d see more builds like this no-holds ...