1959 GMC Fleet-Option Pickup (CTR-138)
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- #classictruckrescue #classictrucks #antiquetrucks Classic Truck Rescue saves a very rare (1 of 100 known to exist) 1959 GMC Fleet-Option Pickup originally purchased by a Salem, Oregon Chevrolet Dealership. An Update on 'The Woodsman's" Truck...An update on Classic Truck Ranch progress....and the Bald-Eagle returns.
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My whole life I have wanted one of these 55 to 59 GMC trucks. Trouble is here in Utah everything rusted away. And I never had the kind of money to fix one. I can just make the payment for my daily driver. My Grandfather had a 58 long bed that I loved. But my uncles destroyed it. If you have anything affordable for a poor man. Let me know. Love what you do. Gods work.
Congratulations on the wedding!!!!!!! Its about time!!
Awesome progress ❤LoveJim J&R mobile service and God Bless Y'all and Your critters
Congrats on the New-Old Purchase She looks Solid ! Be Well, Friends ! ATB T God Bless
Hi Rick & Jamie,
Congrats to you both. God made you two for each other. I love the idea of having your wedding on your property, very special.
I can hear the excitement in your voice when you talk about these old trucks.
And Jamie is in a good mood too! Amazing what a nice drive in a MB will do for a person lol!! Glad to see that. Congrats on the wedding plans.
Jet has the ability to show his momma lLoveJim J&R mobile service and God Bless Y'all and your critters
Yes he does. Thanks, God Bless you too Jim!
Awesome and informative video's. Thanks !
congrats rick and Jamie !
I knew the fleet option existed, but this is the first survivor I have seen. What a nice find.
That fleet option GMC would make a great addition to your collection of working trucks as they would have been everywhere in fleet colours in the late '50s through to the mid '60s which certainly qualifies it as a working truck...
I completely agree.
I really liked that 71, I'd love something like that for my camper.
Congratulations!!!!! You folks are a perfect pair
Hi Rick and Jamie! Congratulations on the coming Wedding. May God bless you both abundantly and always.
Congratulations on your wedding !!! You two make a great couple. God bless you two !
congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are already life partners!!!! that was a good history lesson on the trucks!! love the vids!!!!!!!! take care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanksfor the show guys..glad to see you funning again..im thankful..cowboy..
Congratulations you two.
Love walking around Old Farms you never know what you will find..
Thank you for the video of my truck. You caught us at Outback. we appreciate your compliments, and the nice job you do on your videos. We own West Coast Collector Cars located in Turner Oregon, and although I do videos on the classic cars I sell, I've never done one on my truck. Thanks again. Rich and Olga.
Thank you Rich. I don't normally film vehicles in parking lots, but I really liked your truck and just love the way it was built. Very Nice and Thank you for letting me share it with our viewers. -Rick
Great video thank you for sharing!
Liked this video bro, that blue and white 400 would make a great weekend bugout vehicle. The eagle looks great even from behind. All the best to all on the ranch
Congratulations on the engagement and the sweet purchase!
About to move to Oregon, its been the coldest January in 1oo yrs. - 30 an windchills around -50 below. my 79 f250 shivered so hard, the paint turned to rust !
nice old trucks. i love how the green paint marbled with the rust putina on the 300
I like that too.
I also have one of these trucks My great gransfather bought it brandnew in 1959 and it has been passed down thru the family ever since. Like urs mine also has a chevy tailgate on it luckily i was able to score a conplete 56 gmc truck for $400 and took the tailgate off to complete my fleet edition 59
Yep this il fill in my Sunday night nicely cheers rick mate hope Jamie is well
Your welcome Luke. Thanks Fer Watchin'....again...Goodnight Brother. -Rick
Great video Rick , working on the property, selling trucks and buying more , because you always need more !
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Congrats both of you on the wedding in september greetings from the netherland and keep up the good work hope you get that GMC soon god bless you!!!
Congrats to you both
Back in 1980 at the BSA camp I work at we were given a 59 GMC milk truck...…..it lasted 1 year then was buried along with the others from years past......I went back in 86 for a staff reunion and the rain washed away the buried truck and I was able to remove the fleet option GMC "V" instrument cluster...….maybe if I dig around I might still have it somewhere!
congratulations Rick and Jamie on your upcoming wedding you two are made for each other
Congrats you two on the wedding you buys make a nice couple a perfect car and truck family
I never knew of the Fleet series GMC pickup until a few months ago .. I love how they look and I did some research they were bare bones model.. essentially a stripped down version some or most came with radio, dome light and heater delete to keep cost down I have not seen around here but if I do seen old Chevy or GMC pickups of that vintage I will let know though not sure if you want to venture all the to South Dakota.. reason I watch your show is that my dad had an old 1957 Chevy pickup back in the late 1960s and when he was farming in the late 1970s, I want to say around 1978 or 79 my dad bought an old 1959 Chevy Viking 2 ton truck for the farm had twin head lamps and painted grille and bumper . it was black with what I call a pewter colored interior. sadly when my parents sold the farm in 1989 I wanted to buy that old truck but was talked out of as mom thought it was not proper for a young lady to drive an old farm truck as a daily driver.
Rick...if you ever get a chance check out this great guy..Andrew Camarata...it is incredible what he did and does with those shipping containers..plus just a good fix it upper type..like you..Hope all is well..summer right around the corner...Rich
Great video and nice truck, those straight six engines ran forever.
As a Mopar guy I love the 70 Charger and 300 !!! The Ram Charger's are neat too..Like a Bronco/Blazer/Jimmy they are gaining in value !! time to buy them cheap now !!
Congratulations good for you. She makes your life complete .
You're Gettin Real Good At The Zoomin In
Hard to do without the camera shaking. Thank you and Thanks Fer Watchin'. -Rick
Been amazing bunch of video's a subscriber for life Rick and miss Jamie xxxxxxx God bless you and your family and pup from myself and my son Troy and my mam
Rick, that's a rare find indeed. That blue Chevy IMO an awesome blue color with the white rear cab, stance and wheels. But 36:07 is what it's all about... Much luv & respect!
~B
I own a 1958 gmc stepside,my grandfather bought it in 1959(sweet)
Another great video!!!
Luv the 71. 400
Congratulations on your engagement.
very nice find, also the chevy and the beat to pieces charger. then the ram charger is definitely semi-rare nowadays. always love what you find out in god knows where. still waiting to see homer going again, fell in love with that truck when you got him before he was even hitting on anything close to all 8.
great video rick I live in Muskegon Michigan and we just had like a whole family of bald eagles move in I hope they stay but think their probably here for winter food I had never seen one in person and just last week seen 4 within a mile radius 2 of them were full adults but 2 were dark colors with like white speckles and kind of a striped head and I was told they were juveniles and wouldn't get there full white head till there about 5 years old but I love seeing the eagles on ctr and hope we have a family of them here to stay too
Good video again my friend good to see y’all again the truck smoking look to me like water smoke be safe my friend
Engaged to be married-this is fantastic news to share-Congratulations! This GMC is pretty cool: thanks for the enlightenment. ✌🏻
I remember the '59 pickup. It was his farm pickup. He hauled a lot of cattle in it. Different bed then though, probably the reason. The Mrs. was a school teacher at Bridgeport school when my Mom worked there. They were great friends.Their farm was just down the road from ours, toward Falls City, growing up. Their Son lives there now. Was the old McCormick Deering a W-6 or W-9? The Chevy dealer in Salem was Capitol Chevrolet, right on the corner of Marion St and Commercial St., on the right before crossing Commercial St. and going over the Marion St, bridge. From there they moved out by the airport, now over on the Salem Parkway near Cherry St. Mom bought 2 cars from the owner, one was his Mothers '62 Chevy Impala, 327 and auto. Other was a '59, 235 with 3sp overdrive. I have that trans in my '52 pickup behind the original 216, full oiler conversion with a '56 open drive line rear end for cruisin' gear. The old '59 was T-boned by an Olds 98 right in the passenger door....James
Wow...super helpful information James. Thank you very much and Thanks Fer Watchin'. -Rick
Congrats on your engagement and wedding! 🎊🎈🎉🎆
Getting married! Congrats brother 😊Huntsville Ontario Canada 🍁
Love the videos really love the big old trucks keep it up
Got a 77 f-250 custom my self at the age of 16 doing a engine rebuild right now on it
Allen Thomas I also got a 77 crew cab short bed that I have been trying to get running
That Plain-Jane fleet option truck would be a neat one to restore bone stock as a service truck for that Chevrolet dealership that he mentioned with the logos on the doors.
Great video-they alway"s are.I was born in 59',who would have ever thought station wagons would be desirable,Of course when the 49 olds came out,they were immediately scrappin" flatheads and now they go for mega bucks.Guess it"s all relative.The parking lot in my senior year was full of muscle cars.69 z28"s,big block chevelles"s,gtx"s,gto"s,Even some fast ford"s(can"t believe I said that,senility?) My problem is I"ve alway"s gotten "emotionally attached" to everything I"ve ever had(not good)-thanks for what you do!
Holy Cow! We went to High School together....I hear Ya...Thanks Fer Watchin'. -Rick
Class of 77,drove my,283,3 on the tree,Impala to school everyday,hard to "speed shift" that rig but I did it anyway.I feel bad in a way for kids today(we didn"t need no stinkin" video games!)
Nice old truck for sure
Hey Rick hey Jamie good video I really enjoyed it thank you for the video
Hi there CTR, thankyou very much for taking us along with you today. I love learning off you about all sorts of stuff your a very wise man Rick. I really want to know what happened about getting Mcfly back!! I've been going nuts waiting to see if he is in the ivy up that tree. Please tell us what the conclusion was. Keep being you mate, we love ya just the way you are. Take care.
Excellent video! I had no knowledge of these Fleet option GMC's and was going to ask questions that you answered during the course of the video. Usually, only early 1958 cars and trucks retained the single headlight instead of duals until all the states ratified the changeover. For a 1959 to have it threw me off. I love the simple stamped bumper and grille. I agree it's too plain for collectors so I'm sure few exist. Awesome save.....Peace-out!
My dad had the 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super 10 with the 350. Same color scheme as that one. Wish I had that one to restore. Leaf springs were optional that year. And my dad's had them.
I love when all vehicles get saved hopefully somebody will save the international in the Mopar’s as well
Yea that truck looks homely Rick. I guess a little paint and chrome could help it🤠 be safe rick and jamie
None left. That is what makes it rare
Nice project
It makes sense that the fleet option truck would be rare today. Most of them, if not all, will have gone straight on to company fleets where they will have worked hard and probably been pretty tired by the time they were sold on to the general public. And then, when they went wrong back then almost no-one would have been interested in fixing them and putting them back on the road as most private individuals would have rather had the higher specification vehicles so they'd have been far more likely to get scrapped and broken up for what good parts they had to keep other, higher spec trucks on the road so, although a lot were probably made, very few will have made it through to today. It's often the case with older vehicles that the survivors that are around will be the higher specification vehicles and the base line ones will be almost extinct so there being 100 fleet option trucks known to survive now is not surprising. In fact, I would suggest that 100 surviving is actually a pretty good survival rate for such a basic vehicle which rather shows how tough these were...
Congrats.
awesome !!!
I miss the stripped down work trucks. I had a 2002 Silverado WT with a five speed, but when I went looking for a used truck a few years ago all the dealers had was loaded short box models. I finally found a 2014 base Sierra, but it's automatic. They're not building any manual GM half tons anymore. :-(
There's a '58 Fleet option GMC for sale on the Austin, Texas CL now.
nice old truck. worth saving. Great on the up coming marriage. I would just fix the needed things and drive that truck.
The 71 is a big block truck with the 396 factory bored to a 402 but gm badged them with 400
I'd had a truck just like that 71 truck. When I was 20yrs old. I'm family made me sell it. Wish I'd had the money to buy that truck.
Congrats ! No,no not on getting married ,but buying the truck !
**lol .... I meant on the engagement !!!!! truck is okay too !
You are right my friend GMC even into the late 70s were heavier than Chev and the engines had more low end power until the 60s then the engines were the dame
Shes like this is my sad mojo day
Most fleet option vehicles of those days were probably used and worked to death and probably scraped thats why a fleet vehicle is rare.
I don't know if you still have it or not, but I think that old Lincoln Town Car would have been a better choice for this trip. We always get to see the Mercedes. It's a cool car, but that Lincoln really is something special.
Lots of YARD ART...LOL
happy wife happy life remember these words
Doesn't look like smoke on the obs chevy, reminds of steam from it being cold out. Looks to be dissipating quickly
The gauges are awesome - when GM trucks were REAL trucks!!! ✔
That is wickly cool never ever seen one did not knew it exists cool man. Are you going to fix it up would be nice to see running and driving
Nice to see you guys again what happens to the new building
My dad had a 56 chevy. I think it went to a junkyard. So sad.
I like the fleet trucks, I dont think they are that rare either, I've seen a few of them for sale dirt cheap and they dont sell fast, also very cool 70 charger, I would buy that thing. Good video thanks for sharing!
My 1968 chevy c30 has the same issue as the 90 something that has some steam, Small leak in the head gasket that lets coolant get sucked in to the cylinder, but not enough leak to get in the oil.
And that 70 charger would be worth some money
Congratulations to both of you AWESOME video how is the little doggie doing
Annabbella is doing Good!
Small block 400 was not available in 71 and 2 the engine in the 72 cheyenne was a 402 big block.
The grill looks like someone made it in their home garage. Strange given all the effort that when into styling back then.
I always thought it looked like it came from a hardware store.
That's looks. Like. A Bedford truck gms British division
Head gasket or the head itself most likely is the cause
Might be a head gasket throwing the white smoke plus I hear a lifter ticking might be loose take the head covers off n check n see if the lifters is loose
Coolant leak?
Good vid. You have only one windshield wiper
Car was designed with one windshield wiper.
What happened to your pole barn project? I don't think I have seen the final product.
Might wanna think about pressurize that conduit pipe with about 20 pounds of pressure?
First like and comment gotta be quick on these videos love em
You own that one Cory. Thanks Fer Watchin'. -Rick
@@ClassicTruckRescue T-Shirts and Calendars would be a great idea Rick
@@CallMeAdam2023 - I would DEFINITELY buy them!
@30:39 I spy a Jeep behind the barn! Did you ever get to talk to the guy who owned that '56 at Outback? I've seen about 8 Bald Eagles this Winter. Cool vid Rick!
I wish I had the Charger to make my own General Lee.
I had a 1957 gmc from the phone company . I t had the same mesh type grille . I thought someone had changed it.