Shaun Hounsham didn’t know he wanted a GMC truck? Although, When he saw this freshly restored 5-star pick-up he knew it had been ‘the one’?

Gentleman’s Chevrolet

It’s most of the least assuming, most workaday vehicles that become true icons in their time. As the beauty and sophistication of four-wheeled exotica impresses, there’s normally a remoteness about the subject; a disconnect between the people and places of everyday living at the time. They may represent the dream, but it’s honest, hard-working tools, like this GMC pick-up truck, that connect the zeitgeist more readily and evoke that wonderful nostalgia of the time passed. It’s little wonder that on the planet of classic American cars, old trucks are so popular to import, restore, use and show.

Think of the General Motors ‘Advanced Design’ trucks and they conjure up an image of building postwar America’s economic boom. Trucks like these helped build the roads, buildings and so on the farms helped put food on America’s tables, as the States became the world’s biggest economy and power. They needed plenty of them.