The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk Making sense of AD truck model numbers?

Before I got my truck, I though the numbers simply started at 3100 and went up from there.
Then I started researching for two reasons: I seen one for sale that claimed to be a 1100 and my truck is a 9783.
Searching resulted in many more numbers and it would appear that Canada got its own set of numbers.
Then I started searching for parts and got numbers like fc300 and many more. Searching for images with these numbers to see which trucks these are did not help.

I am very confused. Making it harder to find parts.

(Hope I remember to get the numbers off my truck. )

Canadian Chevrolet trucks have different model numbers that the same model USA Chevrolet trucks.

Canadian Chevrolet truck models start with a "1", and, GMC models start with a "9".

The other/later/following digits for Canadian GM truck model-sizes are thereafter the same.

i thought i posted this Canadian serial decoded i made on the forum
but i couldn't find it
here it is again, to the best of my knowledge it's accurate, but if someone finds errors please let me know
-s

Oh, cool! Thanks!


...but what about those weird codes Ebay uses? It uses things like FC100, FC253, FC350, FCS300, FP152, etc.
I don't know which one to use.
Hold on! I was just looking at OldGMCtrucks and found a chart for them. I appears mine is a FC354, so selecting FC350 would be the best choice.

I think the Canadian number system is easier to understand. American Chevy and GMC numbers are very different and more complicated.