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08-14-2013, 11:15 AM | #1 |
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Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
Friend of a friend says he's found a 54 chevy 3100 that's a "factory built convertible". It has no roof or rear window panels, and no provision for a top or weather curtains.
My first thought is a custom, or maybe someone swapped a cab from a fire truck that was modified back in the day. Am waiting on pictures but has anyone heard of this before? |
08-14-2013, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
Coach built Fire truck would be my guess. Working for GM for 24 years, they say the SSR was the first factory convertible truck produced.
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08-14-2013, 01:17 PM | #3 |
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
Some of the ice cream trucks looked like that too, but not factory built.
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com...resto/4862.htm
Start looking at the link. It show various types of truncated body styles used by after market builders for various commercial uses. It probably started at the factory and a front clip and bottom half of a cab that was then finished by another company. They could also get a rolling chassis with drive train with the steering wheel for total custom body fabrication. Even my 59 FAM shows different configurations with the seat, steering and dash instruments shipped in box banded to the frame.
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08-14-2013, 02:03 PM | #6 |
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
Thank you for the suggestions, those make good sense. I'll see what more I can find out about the truck.
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
Maybe for GM, the first I can think of is the 89 Dodge Dakota
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
I was thinking about this on the way into work and it's not exactly a truck but what about the early 70's blazers?
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08-15-2013, 02:59 PM | #10 |
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Re: Was there a factory built "convertible"/open cab 47-54 truck?
C/K series Blazers are like the trucks, but similar to Suburban's. They share a "body" and do not have a separate bed which makes them different than a "truck" I would think. kind of like the "Utes", a car with a truck bed integrated into the body.
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