Old Cars

It is a 1957 GMC series 100 with an original 347ci V8 engine and a hydro-matic auto tranny (stock). The carb is a four bbl Edlebrock. Stripped the paint down to bare metal in '98 and repainted it a light buckskin with gloss black trimmings. Coated the inside of the bed with a spray in liner. Also built a railing system to hold the spair tire. For me, it's a first time project and I am a novice so it is an ongoing project. I am also in the process of rebuilding a 72 Ford 3/4 ton in my spair time.

This is my 1948 GMC 3\4 ton pickup. I am only 14 years old and got this truck last summer. The interior is now in primer and the doors are on with primer.

This is the story of this truck as I know it. I found this 1945 GMC in 1980 in the corner of a truck shop, buried under a mountain of junk, with only a head light showing. I asked the owner of the shop what the headlight went to and he told me it was on a 1945 GMC. He proceeded to quickly inform me that " If you haul off all the junk you can have the truck for $300.00". He (his name was Lee Walding) told me his dad had gotten the truck from GMC in early 1945, special order, through the War Appropriations Board (WAB). Lee said that his dad parked the truck in the corner of the shop and died in 1960. The truck had sit there since be cause no one could figure out how to start it. I immediately took him up on his offer (not realizing that it was going to take me three days to find the truck). We found the key still in the ignition, put gas and a new battery in and couldn't figure how to start her. The key didn't do it, no button on the dash or foot button to press. Beside...

Well hear she is, my favorite GMC, a 1938 Chevrolet half ton pickup, Model 1314. Built in Oshawa Ontario, it found it's way to the small town of Lorette in Manitoba after an undetermined amount of owners. In 1981 my Dad booked a flight to his home town of Winnipeg with my little sister Michelle in tow and explored the possibilities of purchasing a "classic" truck. Considerations such as Ford, Dodge, prewar, postwar, and Chevrolet were made. Well, a couple of weeks later my father approached me and asked me if I would be interested in a "little adventure" trip with him. Next thing you know, I'm in Winnipeg under the chassi of a 38 Chev, working on the exhaust system and simultaneously trying to identify all the grease points. After one week of 14 and 16 hour days dedicated to maintenance. We were ready to begging our adventure. Just picture it, father and son taking a leisurely trip across the country from Winnipeg to Montreal. Loaded up with tool boxes, ...