Hanno:
My bad, 48-52 is the year range for the first post war body change.
Nuyt: It is a little hard to say but 1947 would be my guess.
Problem we have is that Ford and GM both had a habit of carrying on one or two year old sheet metal in some of their overseas assembly plants. In South America, it could go on for several years.
So many countries were either war damaged or just economically damaged after WWII that they would accept any automotive product just to get their economies going. Thus, usable tooling was often shipped out to smaller export markets and used up until it was done.
Both of you: Please keep these new photos coming........
I had almost given up hope that anything new would be available after the surge of the 1970s and 1980s flood of books on the subject of WWII and earlier vehicles whether they be soft skin or armour. I got most all of those and thought it was over as there was a complete void for almost 20 years.
Now, comes the Internet and for me it is both heaven and hell.
I keep having to drop my photo file to a CD as I get red flashing lights and ding ding bells from my capacity monitor and my bookmark files are so large it takes me a half an hour to scroll through them, always checking for the latest photo or bit of info.
I have purchased a new scanner and hope it will work to start passing on some of the stuff I have. I will post another topic starter on how I organized/misorganized my filing system starting some 38 years ago so you will see how it is that I am so slow to post pics. Well, as Hanno knows so well from our PMs, I am pretty dumb when it comes to doing anything with the Internet other than look, but I will, I will, I will learn.
Bill
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