Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

here are 3 other american c/cab builders
orrville motor specialty truck
crown
proctor keefe
there was coach builders in Oshawa, ont and Vancouver,B.C.
here is a link to quite a few c/cabs and you will see quite a few differences between them. they(builders) all seemed to have their own styles which you will see
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=416573
ron

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

There were actually few coach builders. Unless you can find more literature than already has been found.

Canadian GMCs were basically just Canadian built Chevrolets with GMC badges. Still ran the inline 6 (v6 wasn't available) just like all Chevrolets. All made at the same plant, if memory serves me correct, its been a few years since I looked into the Canadian trucks.

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

How 'bout this weather?

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

Writing in caps is not shouting but I certainly apologize if it seemed that way to you. I do better understand the cloning comment now, so thank you for that clarification - I thought you were saying that the truck in question couldn't be a clone because no one was doing stuff like that.

Your answer my question about which specific coach builders you were referring to suggests you were simply making a general observation based on limited knowledge rather than stating a fact on a subject you are infinitely familiar with, which was how I took it. You do not have to know what coach builders you are talking about to make a statement like that. I don't see a reply to the auto trans adaptor question I posed so looks like maybe you and I both need to do some more research

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

Well, Ron looks like you are schooling us all because I am with David - I have always been of the belief that crew cabs came from one or two companies, Stageway and Armbruster and as far as I ever know, no one else. The link to the 67-72 site shows a lot of pics, but I did not see any info to say Orrville, Crown or Proctor made these for GM buyers. Not sure, but if everyone agrees, I guess this is new information the group may collectively adopt as fact? I will back off and wait to see the weigh in from the longer time members ....always good to learn new info if its provably correct

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

I will keep the crew cab stuff to myself for now. But the adapter comment from Ron was funny. All GMC v6 engines require a bell housing adapter. Automatic ones are either for the hydramatic or the Chevy pattern power glide and 400 turbo. All standard manual trannies use the small GMC pattern or the larger sae pattern in bigger trucks. So all v6 engine e need an adapter of some sort. Second every Canadian 60-66 GMC I have seen is more Chevy than GMC. And if you had a 60-62 with an automatic it will have an adapter for the power glide.

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

David; what would the difference be between a Canadian built and a US built if it had an I6 engine in it?
ron

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

I would really like to know what is more chev than gmc in a Canadian GMC except Canadian production didn't use the V6 eng but used a small block chev eng instead. in the 63-66 production if there was a V6 installed in a US production truck it had to have an adaptor to hook it up to an a/trans. in Canadian production there were no adaptors required to hook up and eng to an a/trans because everything fit. wonder who is cloning who
what you guys seem to say is that the US is the world leader in everything.
ron

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

here is a Canadian built GMC crewcab (Vancouver, B.C.) that I dug out og the bushes
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...746/PVyqUE.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/WBFTXP.jpg[/IMG]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...674/PIHMgf.jpg
it had a 292 in it
ron

Re: Rare 62 Factory Built Crew Cab?
 

here is a 65 GMC ambulance that was built in Oshawa, Ont. that I had. neither of thees were Armbruster or Stageway
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...scf1332iy6.jpg[/IMG]
here is a picture of the ambulance when it was new and belonged to the city of Victoria,B.C.. this was taken from a book on ambulances
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...1208261537.jpg[/IMG]
ron