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.
Surprise to many, the first Chevrolet V-8’s had a lower end draft tube just like the six cylinders of the same years. The V-8’s are hidden between the distributor and the firewall and not in easy view.
The Chevrolet parts catalog for 1957 shows this “tube assembly” number 3726641 available by the dealer from 1955 through 1957.
From almost the beginning of the internal combustion engine, some type of venting of the lower crank case was needed. It was not until the early 1960’s that many vehicle engines were designed to pull the vapor from below the piston rings to be burned in the engines combustion chamber. Thus, much air pollution was eliminated particularly from well-worn engines, often referred to as lower end blow-by.
