Short-Bed Half-Ton Advance Design: No-Reserve 1949 Chevrolet 3100 Pickup
Today in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, the annual Fall Roll Out car show took place, marking the end of the car show season in Pennsylvania for the year. With that, the point of emphasis in terms of the automotive scene shifts from the show field to the shop. One vehicle I've been interested in building (on top of all of the projects I already own, no less) is an Advance-Design pickup, and this 1949 Chevrolet 3100 short bed would be a cool project. Find it here on eBay in Cavalier, North Dakota, with a little more than three and a half hours left to bid. After a full redesign in 1947, Chevrolet's full-size pickup trucks (nicknamed Advance Design) received a minor update late in the 1949 model year. The Thriftmaster and Loadmaster names were swapped for numbers based off of cargo capacity: 3100 (half-ton), 3600 (three-quarter ton), and 3800 (one-ton). This 1949 Advance-Design pickup is a 3100 model, and is one of 1,037,600 trucks bu...