This 39-Years-Owned 1946 Chevrolet Half-Ton Pickup Is Chasing Bids on Hagerty Marketplace

A two-tone green 1946 Chevrolet Half-Ton Pickup that has stayed with one family since 1987 is currently up for bid on Hagerty Marketplace, with no reserve and the auction sitting at $15,000 across eleven bids as of this writing. The listing runs through August 21, and the truck's decades-long ownership story is drawing plenty of attention from bidders who like their patina paired with a documented history.

This half-ton rode out of Chevrolet's AK-series truck program, the lineup the automaker leaned on when it resumed civilian truck production right after World War II. Rather than reinvent the truck, Chevrolet carried its prewar styling forward to meet pent-up postwar demand, wrapping a 115-inch wheelbase and ladder-frame chassis around a 216.5-cubic-inch inline-six backed by a three-speed manual gearbox. It was simple, rugged machinery, and that simplicity is a big reason so many of these trucks are still on the road today.

According to the listing, this particular truck spent years being brought back to its current condition, with the current owner's late husband tracking down correct replacement parts and refinishing it in light green with black fenders and front end. It rides on green-painted steel wheels with chrome dog-dish caps and wide whitewalls, and the bed still wears its wood planking. Inside, a brown vinyl bench seat sits under a crank-out ventilating windshield, and the truck retains its floor-mounted shifter, foot-operated starter switch, and factory heater. The seller notes a replacement VIN plate along with a few cosmetic marks, including a scratch on the passenger fender and some scuffing on the driver's door, but otherwise describes the truck as ready to drive home.

The title has carried a single family's name since February 1987. Per the listing, the current owner's late husband spent years restoring the truck, drove it in local parades, and picked up a few show awards along the way. He passed away in August 2025, and while the title now sits in his widow's name, she says she has no plans to get behind the wheel herself, noting in the listing that the truck "has a few old age spots, but so do I."

For buyers trying to gauge whether the current bid is a bargain, Hagerty Valuation Tools offers a useful benchmark. The guide currently prices a 1946 Chevrolet Series 3100 half-ton pickup in #3, or Good, condition at roughly $15,400, essentially in line with where this auction sits today, though that figure has softened nearly 5 percent recently. Hagerty's data also shows a wide spread in what these trucks bring at auction: 196 examples have sold publicly over the past three years, with results ranging from a $48,400 sale at Barrett-Jackson down to trucks that brought well under $20,000, and the most recent comparable sale, a 1946 Series 3100 half-ton that brought $24,019 on Bring a Trailer, suggests a well-sorted example like this one can outperform the guide's Good-condition number. Bidders can run their own comparisons before placing a bid.

Vintage pickups like this Chevrolet have become one of the more active corners of the collector market, a trend Motorious has tracked in a look at why vintage trucks are hot right now and in a roundup of the coolest pickups currently listed for sale. Fans of clean, unmolested Chevy trucks from this era may also want to revisit a restored 1958 Chevrolet Apache Cameo pickup that highlighted just how much interest these vehicles now draw. With over a week left on the clock, bidding on this 39-year family truck is far from over.