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1973 Chevrolet Pickup Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Mar 30, 2014
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
2
Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Oct 8, 2003

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1973 Chevrolet Pickup. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Fuel system
Filed Mar 30, 2014
Crash reportedFire reported1 injury reported

MY GM PICK UP TRUCK WAS IMPACTED ON THE PASSENGER SIDE AND UPON IMPACT THE FUEL TANK EXPLODED, BURNING MY BODY WITH 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS REQUIRING SKIN GRAFTS AND RELATED OPERATIONS TO SAVE MY LIFE. GM'S COVER UP OF THIS DESIGN FLAW HAS CAUSED ME PAIN AND AGONY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP THAT WILL LAST MY LIFETIME. HOW IS IT THAT GM WILL RECALL TRUCKS THAT HAVE NO FATALITIES AND YET REFUSE TO RECALL THE C/K PICK UP TRUCKS THAT CONTINUE TO EXPLODE AND INCINERATE ITS OCCUPANTS? THERE ARE ESTIMATED TO BE 4, 000, 000 OF THESE TERRORIST DESIGNED PICK UP TRUCKS STILL ON OUR TAXPAYER HIGHWAYS. I DEMAND A FULL RECALL OF THESE DEFECTIVE TRUCKS BUILT BY GM BETWEEN 1973 THRU THE EARLY 1990'S. GM'S CONTINUING COVER UP KNOWLEDGE AND REFUSAL TO RECALL THESE TRUCKS IS A TERRORIST STYLE PREMEDITATED ATTEMPTED MURDER AIMED AT THE DRIVING PUBLIC. *TR

NHTSA ID
10575666
Incident
Jul 21, 1983
Mileage
50,000 mi
Filed Oct 8, 2003

FOIA REQUEST FULL-FIELD DUMPS OF FATAL CRASH DATA WITH FIRE/EXPLOSION AS MOST HARMFUL EVENT FOR GM C.K. PICKUPS MY 1973-87 DATA YR 2002 FORD CROWN VICTORIA, MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS, LINCOLN TOWN CAR MY 1992-2003, DATA YEAR 2002, DODGE RAM DATA YEAR 2002.*MR *CB

NHTSA ID
10042616
Incident
Jan 1, 1901

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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