EVERGREEN HAULER

Prior to 2010, Adrian Backhouse had only a passing interest in classic American cars and trucks, his first love being for motorbikes. “I’d had American bikes for 30-odd years, so I had that interest in Americana.” However, for all that we in Britain can buy into the American Dream with the right vehicles, music and clothes, we can’t invest in the West Coast sunshine. And since bikers tend to suffer the most from the worst of the weather, he started to think seriously of buying a pick-up.

“I’d been looking at internet auction sites for some time, weighing up what I’d like if the opportunity arose. In my mind, I narrowed things down to a Chevy from the late Forties to mid-Sixties or a Ford from the Forties to the mid-Fifties. This 1957 GMC 100 came