maple leaf trucks
 

what is a maple leaf truck is it a candnada only model is a maple leaf a canadian chevy like fargo is a canadian dodge and murcury is a canadian ford

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Dunno for sure, but around here every year we have a Maple Leaf festival in Oct, ad have a car show and everything.

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Never heard of them, but here is a link to info and pics. Sounds like they are larger trucks than pickups.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&xhr=t&q...w=1536&bih=710

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They were Chevrolet 1.5t and up built in Ottawa using a mix of GMC and Chevy parts as well as some Canadian parts. They were marked as "Made in Canada". They are basically the same as US built,yet some parts did not interchange. They hoped that it would help Canadian sales if a truck was offered as built in Canada. Also,British Commonwealth countries,like Australia,put high tariffs on US built products because the US really didn't import anything from them (didn't need to) and AUS didn't want imbalanced trade. The tariffs were minimal between British commonwealth countries because England imported a good bit from AUS. So,this was a way for GM to offer trucks at a more affordable cost.
Here is a '35,'36,and '40:

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...aMapleLeaf.jpg

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...pgw560h380.jpg

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...0MapleLeaf.jpg

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interesting. Were they still called Chevrolets? or did they call them something else like they Beaumont/Chevelle or the Mercury trucks

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neat i live in Ottawa ,haven't heard of them

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From what I've seen,if it said Chevrolet on the grille it was still there,but they had "Maple Leaf" badges on the hood sides. The earlier ones had a different grille. They went into the Advance Design series.

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They appeared as Chevrolets but ran GMC engines. They were called Maple Leafs.

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more info
http://www.antiquechevytrucks.com/Co...esign_main.htm

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/hank_rabe_gmc_ads.htm

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Where do you find Maple Leaf info on Antique Chevy Truck.com? They don't even go back before Advance Design and I didn't see any mention of Maple Leafs in their 47-55 page.

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there was some mention off the first page,i guess compared to others
wasn't sure if living here i would find something different.....

funny when i first saw it i thought..........
and 15 years driving this around the city nobodys ever mentioned them before lol

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That blue logging truck it beautiful.Very cool.

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spoke to a local guy @ a GMC dealer
does the auction thing
said he saw a Maple leaf truck coming up in
http://www.auctionsamerica.com
and will email me some info he has