Forgive me if my spelling is slurred in this blog item because I fell and struck m head very hard after laying my eyes on this absolutely spectacular 1959 Suburban with NAPCO 4WD, clam shell style rear doors, and not so much as a damned hair out of place. The truck was owned by a railroad and used for 20 years before being put out to pasture and obviously restored at some point. This is probably the best 1959 NAPCO Suburban in existence today. It has full documentation of just about every service ever performed, letters from NAPCO that date to when replacement parts and pieces were bought, mint interior, dash, engine bay. This truck appears to be literally perfect.
Outside of the NAPCO 4WD (very short version is that GM did not start installing their own four wheel drive systems into trucks until the early 1960s, so the NAPCO company was contracted to convert vehicles to 4WD when they were ordered) conversion the other things we love are the white paint and matching white steel wheels, normally spartan interior, and the clam shell style rear doors. The vast majority of Suburbans in any era of their construction have had “barn doors” that swing out to the sides. This had the short top glass and long bottom “tail gate” sections that would drop straight down from the back of the truck. What cracks us up about that arrangement on a NAPCO truck is that because of their high stance (and it is really high) you’d need to be about 10′ tall to get any use out of opening the top of the rear hatch. It does also have a roof mounted spotlight. Epic.
Last restored in 2007, this truck has the original “Thriftmaster six” which has been bored .060 and rebuilt. It has the huge Eaton HO-72 axles that have a pinion gear larger than that of a Dana 70! These trucks weren’t just built to drive into rough terrain, they were designed to drive thought it! It can all be yours for a shade less than $40,000.
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eBay Link: 1959 Chevy Suburban NAPCO 4×4 Conversion
A true beauty.
That is the best looking truck Ive seen in years.
Now THAT’S TONS OF FUN!
Fn awesome….
Want