The first Chevrolet truck went on sale in 1918, the same year that the Chevrolet Motor Company became part of GM. The first pickup truck in history was built in 1896, the engine was a four horsepower motor; it was powered by belt drive with two forward speeds and one of the speeds is reverse. It is by Gottlieb Daimler. Chevrolet Four-Ninety half ton light-delivery cowl chassis is indication that the same Four-Ninety based trucks were built for internal use in the 1916. Two four-cylinder models marked Chevrolet’s formal entry into the truck market for the 1918 model year. The Ford Model AA was available with number of options. There are two wheelbases available, the short wheelbases are, 131.5 inches (3,340mm) and the long wheelbases are 157 …show more content…
At the heart of these new pickups was a new Chevy inline-six-cylinder engine, which soon earned names like “Cast Iron Wonder” and “Stovebolt” for its rugged design. Chevrolets Advance Design Half-Ton pickup with a visible and a wider pickup box in the early 1947. Chevrolet introduced its Advance design trucks, the first completely redesigned GM vehicles to appear after World War ll. The F-series is a series of full-size pickup trucks is the F-150; The Ford Company has sold for over five decades; The most popular variant F-series was in 1948. The first F-Series truck (known as the Ford Bonus-Built) was introduced in 1948, replacing the company's previous car-based pickup line. By the mid-1950’s, the post of WWIl boom was under way, and customers were looking for style and performance even in the pickup trucks. Chevrolet introduced the all-new Task Force trucks, which shared design language with the 1955 Bel Air. The Ford C-series was a medium-duty cab over truck built by the Ford Company. While advertisers boasted of its versatility, it was used primarily for local delivery, and fire …show more content…
Modern versions of this vehicle are still in production around the world, currently known as the Frontier and Navara. The original El Camino introduced for 1959 combined the dramatically finned styling of that period’s Chevrolet cars half-ton pickup utility. During the muscle car era that followed, El Camino buyers could order their truck with a Chevrolet high-performance big-block V-8 powertrain, creating a sport pickup that could “haul” in more ways than one. Although there had been a number of small pickup prior to the 1960s, the compact-car boom that kicked off the decade brought with it a new crop of forward control trucks, including the Corvair 95. With its unitized body structure and rear-mounted engine, the 95 offered a lot of cargo space in a compact, maneuverable package. It took only one glance at any of the 35 Chevrolet C/K models for 1967 to see that Chevy trucks had a new look that year. A new-for-1967 Custom Sport Truck package was a trend-setting option that included deluxe carlike upgrades inside and