Classic Car Buyer's Guides
Expert buying guides for classic cars and trucks. Pre-purchase checklists, common issues, year-by-year analysis, and current market pricing — written by our editorial team of restoration specialists, historians, and collectors.
Definitive buyer's guide for classic GMC Sierra 1971-1998. Square-body and OBS generations, frame and bed inspection, small-block and big-block V8 identification, current pricing.
The GMC 2500 three-quarter-ton pickup was the working truck that the C10 half-ton buyers couldn't afford to rely on — heavier springs, stronger axles, and the kind of payload capacity that meant something to buyers who actually needed to haul, not just look good doing it.
The GMC 1500 half-ton has always been the quiet achiever of the classic truck world — built on the same bones as the Chevy C/K but sold as the "professional" option, with distinct styling and a following that fiercely defends the difference.
The GMC C/K Series covers every payload class of the professional-grade truck lineup — from the half-ton C15 through the one-ton C35 — giving buyers a complete picture of the most capable and best-supported classic truck platform in American history.
Definitive buyer's guide for classic GMC Pickup 1947-1972. Advance Design, Blue Chip, and Action Line generations, frame and bed inspection, current pricing for survivors and resto-mods.
Complete buyer's guide for the classic GMC 100 half-ton pickup (1947–1959). How the GMC differs from its Chevrolet twin, what to inspect, and why smart buyers have been quietly acquiring these trucks for years.