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Modern pickups are styled to accentuate their size and bulk, an approach that’s very different from a truck that Chevrolet offered a half-century ago.
“I like the way it’s different,” said Tyler Reynolds, whose 1971 Chevy Cheyenne C30 Longhorn is shown here. “You don’t see many heavy-duty trucks; everybody has a half-ton. Especially a Longhorn and being a one-ton, I knew it was different. I knew we had something.”
The Longhorn is different, even if Chevrolet didn’t feel a great need to emphasize it as such. Introduced for the 1968 model year — one year after a completely redesigned Chevy truck debuted — the Longhorn was created by taking the 133-inch wheelbase chassis from a 1-ton Stepside pickup and replacing its box with the
