vintage trucks

What a Great Panel Truck!  This body style is rarely seen in today’s world. When new, they were usually used for carrying merchandise to the fast developing residential neighborhoods of the 1950”s. They were very successful in delivery of groceries, laundry, dry cleaning, or for any company that carried items from a supplier homes or business. Our feature truck this...

This fact about car and truck generators is not known to most.  We hope, you find this of interest. Both ends of most generators after the mid 1930’s had openings for air to pass through their internal moving parts.  The small fan on the front it is attached to a pulley that is turned by the belt reaching the harmonic...

After over 30 years of General Motors using the standard stepside bed for their pickups, a major addition was introduced as an accessory in 1958. It was referred to as a Fleetside. Our Feature truck this month shows this new size pickup bed. Yes, the standard stepside remained as the most popular bed, however as the new Fleetside began to...

A redesigned dash was placed in the 1954 GMC. It was totally changed from the 1947-53 dash which had been in place six years. Due to this new design there was a place to install the radio but not its speaker! The next best location for the speaker was in the headliner between the driver and passenger. The GM engineering...