This 1962 GMC Truck Has 1,780 Original Miles – 100% Non-Restored Survivor – Incredible!


This 1962 GMC Truck Has 1,780 Original Miles – 100% Non-Restored Survivor – Incredible!

Unless General Motors grabbed a pickup truck off its assembly line in 1962 and put it in a hermetically sealed box for the last 53 years, you are looking at the finest example of the breed left on Earth. With only 1,780 miles on the odometer since brand new, the original tires, and nothing other than an OE style replacement fuel pump to get it running again, this truck is a time capsule that has lived the life of a prized painting. As the seller tells it, the original owner bought the truck, drove it to work for a while and then parked it inside his Nevada garage for decades on end. He would start it, keep it clean, and he kept a cover on it right through the 1980s until he moved across town where it went into another garage. The man literally never used the thing, just kept it for reasons likely known only to him.

The column shifter manual transmission, bench seat, steering wheel, bed, engine compartment, all of it looks like it was just wiped down by a dealer attendant for the person who would be driving it off the lot. It is so rare to see classic pickups anymore that are 100% stock. Lots of guys will at least swap wheels and tires to get away from the narrow pizza cutters that these things wore back then but not this owner. The white steel wheels with their poverty cap centers are still there as are the badges for the big GMC V6 engine that lives under the hood and operates at near diesel RPM levels.

It is not the overall condition that blows us away in situations like this. Instead it is how nice the detail items still are. How good the little pieces that always flake, crack, chip, and fail are. That’s the stuff that just takes our breath away. The price kind of does that as well. The seller is looking for $60,000 and while we cannot blame him for going top dollar on the ask, is $60,000 what the best 1962 GMC pickup is worth? At this point the only place for a truck like this is a collection or someone who will idle it through parades and stuff, right? If you are shelling that dough does it discourage actually driving it?

Like we said, this truck is worth every penny someone pays…but how many pennies is that going to be?

Huge thanks to Justin Oney for the tip on this piece of magnificence!

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8 thoughts on “This 1962 GMC Truck Has 1,780 Original Miles – 100% Non-Restored Survivor – Incredible!

  1. Lee

    Too bad it doesn’t say why he parked it after so little use. Obviously he did like it because of all the care he gave it.

    It definitely is a time capsule.

    1. Peter Chronis

      Why the original owner parked it is because shortly after he bought it in 1962 his mother died and he inhereted several cars so he ignored the truck. Later he needed a 4wd truck so this this truck just got forgotten. The original owner is over 90 years old today.

  2. Ted

    I’d bet this changed hands for 20K and it’s become the flip du jour.

    If I’m wrong I apologize, it’s just this has the flavour of someone knocking on a door for years asking about a car/truck with nothing but the intention of turning it around when they get it.

    1. TheSilverBuick

      I kind of agree. A few trips to Reno? At 300 miles each way, 600 round trip, that is pretty much two trips to Reno and parked.

    2. Peter Chronis

      The story of this truck can be found on the 6066 GMC website, the truck was not flipped for 20K!

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