Thanks for the warm welcome! I'll have to get my mom to scan some of the many pictures of the truck I know are around her place, then I can put them online.
I'll stick a post in the Greasy Spoon sometime about vehicles over here in China--but the short answer is nope, no AD trucks here. I have seen what looks like an S-10 knockoff, as well as a fake BMW X5 SUV. Not to mention some interesting imitation Oreos...
And I don't really have any plans to "restore" the truck. Our neighbor did that with his '51 Chevy truck, and it's just gorgeous, but our GMC is really very decent cosmetically, so I'll probably just be looking at mechanical work to get it safe and reasonably reliable. Maybe someday I'll try redoing the bed, but then I'd likely hate to use it as a truck, and I don't want that. And it'll be a long while before I save enough pennies to rechrome that big-ol' grille...
Look for me around here; I won't have much advice to give for a while, but probably a lot to glean.
-Dave
