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.
Though items were shared between GMC and Chevrolet trucks between 1936 and 1946, General Motors made sure many parts remained very different during the early years the GMC preferred very few things to be similar to Chevrolet. Their customers needed to see an almost stand-alone truck with the higher price of the GMC.
One very obvious difference is the change in tail lights. There is no comparison to Chevrolet. The massive GMC stamped one piece steel bracket combined with a redesigned 5-inch tail light makes the pair a "one-of-a-kind". They do not interchange with Chevrolet during those year.
It was not until the new body style in mid 1947 that the two brands shared tail lights. When the larger GMC's 5-inch light was discontinued on trucks in 1947, Chevrolet introduced it on their 1949 through 1952 station wagons and early GMC buses. It was placed in the center of the gate and was the only factory light on the vehicle.
Even though 1936-1946 taillight was used for so many years, it is becoming very difficult to find. Most GMC pickup restorers use the reproduced Chevrolet rectangular design and only a few GMC perfectionists are aware that there is a difference.
A shop in the US is attempting to remake this bracket; however, if this happens the tail light will be almost as big of a project to find. It is not being reproduced.
Hint: This tail light also was used on Chevrolet, Buick Oldsmobile Station Wagon tail gates from about 1949 through 1952. Therefore you will see more lights than GMC brackets at swap meets. See Photos
Though items were shared between GMC and Chevrolet trucks between 1936 and 1946, General Motors made sure many parts remained very different during the early years the GMC preferred very few things to be similar to Chevrolet. Their customers needed to see an almost stand-alone truck with the higher price of the GMC.
One very obvious difference is the change in tail lights. There is no comparison to Chevrolet. The massive GMC stamped one piece steel bracket combined with a redesigned 5-inch tail light makes the pair a "one-of-a-kind". They do not interchange with Chevrolet during those year.
It was not until the new body style in mid 1947 that the two brands shared tail lights. When the larger GMC's 5-inch light was discontinued on trucks in 1947, Chevrolet introduced it on their 1949 through 1952 station wagons and early GMC buses. It was placed in the center of the gate and was the only factory light on the vehicle.
Even though 1936-1946 taillight was used for so many years, it is becoming very difficult to find. Most GMC pickup restorers use the reproduced Chevrolet rectangular design and only a few GMC perfectionists are aware that there is a difference.
A shop in the US is attempting to remake this bracket; however, if this happens the tail light will be almost as big of a project to find. It is not being reproduced.
Hint: This tail light also was used on Chevrolet, Buick Oldsmobile Station Wagon tail gates from about 1949 through 1952. Therefore you will see more lights than GMC brackets at swap meets. See Photos
