If you watched the American Country Music Awards last month you probably are familiar with award-winning country music singer Lee Brice. (You know that song ‘Hard To Love’? Yeah, that guy). Well, during the award show, Brice decided to fulfill a good deed that was truly heartwarming; he presented military widow Ginger Ravella with a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 that once belonged to her late husband, Troy Gilbert, who served in the Air Force.
The third-gen Silverado is actually a family-owned vehicle, which adds to its sentimental weight. Brice had been inspired to search for the truck and reunite it with Ravella following his benefit concert for Folds of Honor, a non-profit group that provides educational scholarships to the families of deceased or disabled veterans. Ravella had spoken to Brice, telling him that the song ‘I Drive Your Truck’ meant so much to her because it reminded her of Troy and his Chevrolet truck, which he had to sell before his final deployment.
Having been deeply moved by Ravella’s story, Brice and his crew located the truck so that they may present it to Ravella. The timing couldn’t have been better as Greyon, Gilbert’s youngest son, had just gotten his driver’s license the week before the award show.
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This would be a great story if they would of mentioned that he was a life long GM owner and fan. I reason to believe that this was not the case, but by chance this family just happened to be owning one at this time of their lives which is sad!
GM should be focusing on the families that have been loyal life long GM owners/buyers! Doing something like this is just for media attention and will it assure GM that this family will be a exclusive GM buyer from this point forward? Probably not! So if this is the case then why bother?
How about finding a old truck that a life long GM owner had to give up because of life when he was younger but always stayed loyal to GM threw thick and thin!
We should be taking care of the people that take care of us!
Scott-sorry, but your comment doesn’t really make sense. Maybe you didn’t read the article closely enough before you commented. Lee Brice, the country singer, tracked down the old truck and some people from Folds of Honor bought it from the current owners and presented it to the family. Greyson, their 16-year old son will get to drive his Dad’s truck – his Dad who gave his life serving this country. It was a GM truck, but GM didn’t have anything to do with returning it to them, so I don’t understand your issue. Thanks, GM Authority, for reporting on a great story that involves one of your trucks which holds years of memories for this family!
Other then the fact that it was a GM truck this story is a complete joke! I could care less about this sob story, if this truck ment so much to them then why did they get rid of it in the first place!
They did this so the media would run with it!