Chevrolet Bruin

The Chevrolet Bruin, also sold as the GMC Brigadier, was a heavy truck that General Motors built in the model years 1978 to 1988. Both were conventional hood trucks that shared the cab of the 9500 series introduced in 1966, a cab better designed than is usual for big trucks but larger than the cab of a pick-up as used in the C40 to C65 series built at the same time. Diesel engines from Caterpillar, Cummins and Detroit Diesel were on offer. Bruin followed the pattern of frontier beast names given to the larger Chevrolet trucks, such as Bison (larger) and Kodiak (smaller), while Brigadier followed the military rank names of the large GMC trucks. Unlike the Titan and Astro and the Bison and General, it had a suitable successor in the Chevrolet Kodiak, GMC Topkick and Isuzu H series. The GMC version was more common than the Chevrolet one.