C60S Wrecker
 

John Newbold's C60S Wrecker is featured in a nice article in HERITAGE COMMERCIALS magazine, June 2003 issue. She is marked up as L 5847924, which is in the batch L 5847850 5847937 SM 6056 'LORRY 3 TON 4 X 4 B/DOWN'.

C60 wrecker
 

This is the ex John Marchant truck. The link if I remember right is that John Newbold's Father bought and operated the truck after the war, it then passed onto John Marchant. It was sold at his auction a couple of years ago to John Newbold.
Case of what goes round comes round, it's gone to a very good home.

Pete

Chev CMP restorations in the UK
 

See the web pages Chevrolet Wrecker Rebuild and Chevrolet Truck Rebuild on the MVT South Cumbria & North Lancs Group website for some interesting restoration pictures.

Does anybody know "Jon", the owner of these CMPs?

H.

CMP's in the North
 

Hi Hanno

The Oxford CMP crew know Jon Newbold very well, over the years we have traded parts in both directions.

Pete

I know him
 

I am the webmaster of the website for the South Cumbria and North Lancs area of the Military Vehicle Trust referred to in your post, so I know Jon well. If you need to get in touch e-mail me and I will pass on a message to him. By the way, how did you find the website as I did not think many search engines had found it yet? My site monitor reported an access via this forum so I will now take a good look at what is being discussed here that may be of use.

Re: I know him
 

Hi Paul, and welcome to this forum!

I found your website through a link from http://www.solentmvt.co.uk/, whose Chairman & Show Secretary participates regularly on this forum.

On the subject of anything of use, I've started a new thread on the Chevrolet "Breadvan" of which I am sure our resident GM Automotive Historian can fill in all the details.

Regards,
Hanno

I thought Jon had sold the wrecker to buy the truck, however I was wrong. When I went to his workshop there they both were. The wrecker actually earns its keep by recovering broken vehicles. Jon decided to display both at our recent MVT group weekend, so I thought I would take some pics and show them to you. They were displayed as if the wrecker was recovering the truck, so I captured some of the detail that may be of use.

Re: Both Chevys together
 

Paul, great pics - thanks!

H.

Working classics
 

It's good to know these vehicles still serve a useful purpose. If you look at our website I have posted some pictures from our weekend event at which Jon's wrecker had to pull an articulated lorry out of the mud. It is on the Events 2004 part 2 listing. As I said in the posting title it is definitely still a working classic.

A Chevrolet C60S Wrecker rescueing a Jeep during an event at Ede, Holland, September 2006 (source: www.legervoertuigen.com)