Here’s a peculiar find by canadiancatgreen at the Cohort. Just exactly, how many Chevys -and GMCs- have been used to create this truck in particular? Anybody out there cares to guess?
I suppose that’s a positive side of the recycling business, not only do you make a living, but can keep your vehicle always in running condition. And I can see a few more spares on that bed; for sale, for further mods, or for a side project?
It is a tribute to the owner and to GM that this is still on the road. WHEW! I am having difficulty determining the GVWR of this beast. It has only five lug nuts, which would not be the case today. It looks to be a lower end GVWR of a medium-duty. Does anybody have an idea? Note that it has a running board which means that it is not a light duty.
It’s a low GVWR medium chassis-cab with a pickup bed mounted. So two donors in total, unless you want to add the hood and tailgate.
Maybe a C40, they often had those style 10 hole wheels using 5 studs in the front and 10 in the rear. That was a GM truck ‘thing’ from the 40’s up through 2002 on lower GVW medium duty trucks as Paul pointed out. C40’s were usually around 19,000#’s GVW.
Rockwell rear axle used by GM was 10 lug.
Looks like a ‘55 Pontiac hood in the bed.
This monument to perseverance and thrift appears to have two base vehicles and miscellaneous bits from other examples. The cab and chassis look like a 69-72 C40 or C50, the bed is a 69-72 C10-C30 or their GMC equivalents and the hood and tailgate are from other vehicles of the same type. From the left rear quarter, 4 vehicles for sure plus possible power train swaps and a possible right side door or fender so there could esaily be pieces of 6 or 7 trucks.
Trucks like that were a brief “thing” for a short period of time. Mostly home made, but Navistar actually offered a new truck like that using their medium duty truck with Ford pickup bed. Loaded with leather seats and all the toys inside the cab. I can’t remember the name. It was a fad at the time.
Found it
Even without the pickup bed the C40 from this era is an interesting mashup since newer equivalents just use an HD pickup-style cab. You see more Ford F450s and Ram 4500s than Chevy Silverado 4500s, but GM probably sells more Class 4 trucks overall when you factor in the Isuzu-based tilt cabs.
Looks like a C40 or C50. We had a C40 grain truck for years. I wonder if the frame has been shortened to fit the box. Lots of those older trucks out here on the Canadian prairies. Our old one is still being used on another farm.