In the may 1999 issue of Street Rodder is a 48 crew
cab truck. It actually started life as a 51 GMC 10
ton fire truck. Apparently Chevy built these cabs
with suicide rear doors (actually front doors
reversed) for industrial applications. This owner
built his as a 1/2 ton hot rodded truck and it looks
wonderful. I hope this helps answer your question.
Byron
--- B&A Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net> wrote:
> I ran across something interesting earlier today. I
> was at the local Chevy
> dealer, (Ranger Chevrolet in Hibbing, MN) and he had
> some old pictures
> hanging on the wall. One was a very good side on
> view of an AD crew cab
> truck that they sold back then to one of the local
> mining companies. I
> don't know them well enough to tell the year at a
> glance, but it was
> pre-54. Judging from the tire size and ground
> clearance, it would have
> been either a 3/4 or 1 ton truck. With the extended
> cab, it had what
> appeared to be a stock short box from a half ton. I
> asked the manager
> about it, and he said it was a custom order from an
> aftermarket supplier,
> not a factory option, but other than that, he didn't
> know much about it.
> It appeared to be very nicely done.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm sure the truck has long since
> been melted down into
> razor blades. I'm sure not many of these were made.
> I'm going to try and
> talk him into letting me scan it and send it along
> to someone who can post
> it. Maybe if I stop in and leave my TF truck parked
> there for a while some
> day next summer.
>
> What I'm looking for is some speculation on who
> could have made the truck,
> how common they were, and if any still exist?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bruce Kettunen
> '57 3100
> Mt. Iron, MN
>
>
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> between 1941 and 1959
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