The smaller local shows are always the best for bringing out hidden treasures you won’t see anywhere else. Case in point: I spotted at least a dozen vehicles at the Bragg Creek show that I’d never laid eyes on before. The real standout was Gord Masiuk’s incredibly rare, unrestored survivor, a 1946 GMC Maple Leaf edition showing fewer than 5,000 original miles.
Seeing it brought back a wave of nostalgia. I’m old enough to have driven a Maple Leaf back in my farm days as a teenager. We were helping a neighbor, Tom, with harvest, and I was assigned to drive his late-forties Maple Leaf grain truck, sketchy brakes and all!
Oddly enough, when I was back home earlier this month for my brother’s memorial, I ran into Tom and reminded him of those harvest days. He told me he still has that old Maple Leaf sitting on his farm today!
Love your site great
I would like to comment on the ’46 GMC
Only Chev large trucks 1 1/2 and larger were Maple Leaf from factory
They were heavy duty for Canadian conditions with larger ones with GMC 248 engines
Maple Leaf trucks were produced from some time in the ’30s to 1953 0r 54
There is not much info on Canadian GMC and Chev trucks from this time.
USA duties made Ford build Mercury trucks Dodge Fargo and Chev Maple Leaf in Canada.