Yes! The Rumor is True! Jim Carter Truck Parts is beginning our 46th Year!
Few if any have reached this milestone.
Jim Carter here, we are just as active in GM trucks as ever!
Click on a year below. See what a near 1/2 century can do for you!
THIS IS US! JIM CARTER TRUCK PARTS AT 45 YEARS
Thank you, thank you, for so many great customers like you that have helped our company reach
our 45th Anniversary. We are so proud to have reached this milestone. This is Jim Carter, I am
still very active as when I started restoring my first pickup, a 1950 Chevy 1/2 ton and needed parts! It now
sits in our Lobby!
Just a Few Extras:
- 17 employees with 130 combined year's expertice.
- Over one million parts in two buildings plus our very own nearby wood shop.
- Partisipated in numerous Swap Meets accross the country over the years.
- House so many more "USED" GM parts than any of our competitors.
- We supply parts to over 20 active nationwide Dealers and 2 in Canada.
- Helped with founding of All American Truck Club of New Zealand.
By January 1949 GM realized there was an engine noise in the new late 1947 Advance Design cabs that needed correction. If a truck customer complained, the dealer was given a solution by modifying a part from a Chevrolet car.
The problem was engine noise entering the cab through the horizontal accelerator rod where it touched the floor hole. On many early Advance Design models there was not yet a pocket to hold a felt floor seal and insulate this rod. Metal to metal contact was inevitable.
The enclosed article is from a GM product service bulletin issued January 31, 1949. It was sent to all dealers.
Note: It is doubtful if all this work required of the dealer in the bulletin was ever very successful. The real noise problem was actually from attaching the back of the accelerator pedal to the accelerator rod. Metal contact here brought noise into the cab and then to the floor where the accelerator pedal made connection. By 1951 a new pedal to rod connection was used (like the car) and the problem was corrected.
