This ’64 C10 was posted recently by Slant Six at the CC Cohort. An old Chevy truck, not pampered, nor restomoded, and still at work in Pennsylvania.
License plate indicates this as a “Repair Towing” vehicle, and those paint blemishes and patina look to have been properly earned while at work.
These have been covered various times at CC, most comprehensively in the link below. Regarding this one, I hope it still has many years of work ahead. Gentle work that is, for we ain’t young anymore (I know I ain’t).
Related CC reading:
Automotive History: 1960-66 Chevrolet Pickup Trucks – The First Modern Pickup
Some of the most iconic pickup styling of the 1960’s. Design remains clean, and purposeful. These would sell today, in 3D printed form. A small contractor in my city drives one, and I’m sure it attracts additional business for himself.
These were regularly seen in CBC reruns through the 1970’s, as dark green Department of Lands and Forests trucks, in the globally syndicated early 1960’s series, ‘The Forest Rangers’. Long scene here:
The truck in the video is interesting. It’s a GMC, but notice it has no V-6 emblem on the side of the hood and it has the forward-slant pre-’64 A pillars. That can only mean it’s an Oshawa-built Canadian GMC 910, as all domestic GMC pickups before ’64 were V-6 powered. The Oshawa GMC’s were very close to comparable Chevy models and featured Chevy 6 and V-8 engines. The Chevy 230 and 292 were offered in domestic GMC’s starting in ’64 as a credit option. That looks like an interesting T.V. show.
Thoroughly appreciate, your encyclopedic knowledge, Bob. Thank you, for that info. The program was filmed mostly outside Kleinburg, Ontario. Less than 100kms west, from Oshawa. So, that helps back up, the truck source.
Love the Astro van dog dish caps.
This represents my platonic ideal of a pickup truck.
When I think of these trucks this is the way I remember them. I had a ’62 briefly and a ’65 for a year or two, bought for maybe 400 bucks each. Cheap workhorses was all these were at the time, easy and cheap to keep on the road, at least until rust got them.
Both of mine needed transmission replacements, likely due to teenage driving habits, and they cost maybe 25 bucks at the local wrecking yard and took a couple hours of easy work to replace. Hauled a lot of goodies home from the U-pull wrecking yard with them. Damn handy to have around, even my Dad borrowed it occasionally.
These days the only ones I ever see are pristine customs at shows, and not many of those. Work, rust and time seem to have taken a heavier toll on these than the same vintage Fords, at least around here. Nice find!
When I decided to buy an old pickup in 1987, I was a bit torn between these and the Ford. The invariably rotted wood bed floor in these is what decided it. No regrets. I just took my old F100 on a 250 mile trip on Friday. It’s a keeper.
Never owned this generation but friends did. My favorite pickup of this era was a basic white ’64 GMC 1/2 ton with the V-6. Saginaw three speed did need a rebuild, which was a simple job.
I’ll cite the CC Effect, as I’ve seen several of these in the last day and a half. But I’m kind of cheating, as I’m on a road trip and have been mostly California State Route 88 and US 50 through rural California and Nevada. Spotting old cars by the roadside is easy pickings.
Yep ;
I remember these when new and decades later still doing Yeoman Duty .
Thanx for the Canadian built details .
-Nate