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| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1 | I have owned crew cabs for the the past 10 years now and love them. I am just starting out with looking for a restoration project and would like to do a crew cab. I really like the 1950-55 Chevy/GMC series but I have not seen any crew cabs. Where there any crew cabs manufactured during this time and if not, when did the first crew cabs come into production? | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 | In the 60s, the dealers(or purchasers of the trucks)would have the trucks converted by aftermarket companies with GM provided materials. Was usually done for utility or railroad companies. I'm not sure when they started doing it at the factory, but I don't think they did it until the 70s. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 86 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 86 |
JC in KC
"The future will be better tomorrow." Dan Quayle
1965 Chevy C10 Long Fleetside
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | Hey JC,
I think that is an old airport tug,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 16 | I have a friend that is a fellow Stovebolter that has a 54 crew cab that was converted for the railroad. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 181 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 181 | To teh best of my knowledge, GM didn't start making factor crew cabs until '74. I have seen the conversions of the 60-66 body style. The trend seems to be building what the factory should have. Just get creative with a welder. GM didn't make Avalanches in 88 but I have one. (see pic) | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | The crew cabs were introduced in '73. International was the first to make factory crew cabs in the mid-'50s, Dodge followed in the late '60s.
Bill Burmeister
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