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Originally Posted by Bob Carriere
Running boards and fuel tank looks more like a HUP tank with the rear filler neck.
Message to Robert M....... see how short the guy is...... door top is only shoulder height!!!
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Agreed that the tanks have fillers similar to HUP but since the front end sheet metal seems to be monkey face (and no HUP were monkey face) and most CMP captured would also have been pre-HUP, it seems unlikely they would have had enough captured HUP tanks to have been able to simply swap them on. They must have seen the same kind of access problem the HUP designers did and just come up with a similar solution. We have seen tanks where the original filler hole was soldered closed and an new filler neck added, so they could have done the same to avoid making complete new tanks. But, if you are making complete new rear bodywork to integrate to an existing cab, why not make new tanks to address the issue of the existing filler being either under the bodywork or blocking your door? You find the fuel filler on you C15A awkward to use and the same tank under Umbau-Wagen bodywork would have been worse.
When using the truck to scale the man, where does your truck come to on you? If the man were truly short, the truck would tower over him but if he is a giant, it might only reach his waist... Many of the earlier photos look to be 2 WD rather than 4WD which would make the truck lower and the man correspondingly smaller....