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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 | Hello, wondering if anyone knows what AK (the Chevy truck series prior to the Advanced Design series) stands for, anyone know, have guesses or theories?
Also, started a small Instagram page - #AdvancedDesignTime
Thanks in advance,
-Scott | | | | | Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,321 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,321 | The Chevrolet AK Series truck was a light-duty truck sold under the Chevrolet brand, with production beginning in 1941 until 1947. It used the GM A platform, shared with the Chevrolet Deluxe. The AK series was also branded and sold at GMC locations, with the primary visual difference being the Chevrolet had vertical bars in the grille, while the GMC had horizontal bars. The 1941-45 GMC models were sold as C-Series and became the E-Series for the 1946 and 1947 model years (CC-Series / EC-Series for the conventional cab models and CF-Series / EF-Series for the COE ones).
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Is a restoration ever finished? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 | Yes thanks I read that on Wikipedia too, but I was wonder what the AK stood for, if those initials were an abbreviation for words, like AD = Advanced Design. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | GM/Chevrolet did not call them Advanced-Design; GM/Chevrolet called them Advance-Design.
Did you read the GM announcement I linked-to above? That term was regularly used.
Look also at my name at the top of this post. Click on the image to the left of it. It is a GM illustration.
Go to my website (the link is below). You will see several other GM references to their Advance-Design trucks.
Their next series of trucks was called Task Force.
Prior to Advance-Design, GM did not officially have a name for a truck series.
GMC also started using a series name in 1947, New Design (no hyphen) GMC trucks, followed by Blue Chip GMC trucks near the middle of 1955. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 93 | Wow! I had it wrong all these years - Advance Design. Thanks, learn something new on here every 15 minutes! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Made in Alaska? Just sayin' 
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | hmmm . . . .It is not even getting late on a Saturday night  | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 9,830 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 9,830 | Made in Alaska? Just sayin' At least you got it right. Too many people think AK stands for Arkansas.  Not too many cars or trucks built up here, though. Even back then.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 10 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 10 | Well, pretty sure it's not Avtomat Kalashnikova.  | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 | Let’s stay on topic, please.
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