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| | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 | Does anyone know, with certainty, when GM built their first Crew Cab pickup??? The earliest I've ever seen was a '61 SWB 4x4 that was originally owned by Burlington Northern. Saw this truck in a yard outside La Junta, CO around 1997 or so. Stopped and talked to the owner; neat old work truck. GM had to have made one earlier than that, maybe??? Or, maybe GM had a vendor custom-build cabs on an as-ordered basis?
Again, anyone know for certain???
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 | I just read this in another discussion.. Originally posted by John Millman:
..as far as I know (and Jolly and the rest of the '60-'66 experts ought to be along soon), your truck is a custom after-market mod. Chevrolet didn't offer a factory crewcab until the '73 model year (Dodge introduced the crewcab in it's '63 model year, by the way...). When reviewing Vin Cruncher data thru '72 I haven't seen any refrence to a crew or extended cab.. i'd have thought if the DID make a factory one pre '72 it would have been mentioned in VIN data.
an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 | I'm certain it was 73. I had a 68 but it was custom made(not by me) and even had vent windows in the rear doors.
Evan
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 37 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 37 | They could be ordered, but the conversions were not done by GM.
Here is one for sale on Carsoup:
'69 K/20
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1969 GMC K/2500 (w.i.p.)
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | Seems the military, notably the Air Force had crew cab trucks during the early 60's used mainly to hussle B-52 crews out to the flightline. These trucks no doubt were special order and believe most were Dodges although Chevy was certainly possible.
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,571 | One of the guys on the GMC board has a '57 (I think) GMC that was apparently ordered as a conversion by the factory for test purposes. The idea was out there, it just took a long time to take off. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 | I know the Dodge Crews were factory-built, starting in 1963. I wish I'd thought to look for a data tag or a manufacturer's plate on the cowl or the doors, looking at that '61. It was still a cool rig! The back doors were like the fronts, except the upper door frame was squared off somewhat, with a roll-down window in the door and a fixed vent window at the rear of the door.
Now that I think about it, I worked with a captain at Tinker AFB, OK in 1988 that drove a '65 Crew Cab Chevy on a daily basis. It was a blue and white, 2WD, 283 4-speed long bed truck with a camper shell. Definitely not a homemade job! When he retired, he took the truck up to Colorado Springs.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 299 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 299 | I saw a few AD crew cabs way back when on Vancouver Island, they were using them at a logging camp.That's if I wasn't halucinating that day back in the 60's. :-) | | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 45 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 45 | Originally posted by davethorik:
They could be ordered, but the conversions were not done by GM.
Here is one for sale on Carsoup:
'69 K/20 Actually it's a CST/20 4x4...and it's my dads truck  | | |
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