Second Act
TV has taught us to expect certain things from Southern California’s Beverly Hills: swimming pools, movie stars, and Real Housewives, just to name a few.
What you might not expect to find is a scruffy, partially disassembled 1937 Chevrolet ½-ton pickup lying in wait among the mansions and designer handbag stores. But it was there—within the TV-famous 90210 zip code—that old-truck hobbyist and retired pathologist Kent Zimmerman discovered this solid, complete, but (formerly) needy example of Chevrolet’s GC series.
Kent and his son Scott, like many Chevy truck enthusiasts, are members of the online community Stovebolt.com, which is devoted to pre-’73 GM trucks. Back in 2015, a listing for this pickup popped up on the website, and the Zimmermans wasted no time inquiring.
“I had done a body-off restoration on a 1950 Chevrolet cabover,” Kent says. “It was a four-year project that I’d been done with for about three years, and I was looking for something else to do. I frequent and one
