M38a1cdn

[Mike Baker]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

New M38A1 is now home!!!!

Can someone out there tell me if the CFR# would be anywhere other than the top lh frame rail?

The problem I am having here is that by all accounts it appears to be a Canadian M38A1 CDN3 but has brass American Marine Corps data tags that are old NOS but unstamped???? Possibly just a set someone threw on???

It has 10" brake drums, turn sigs, hot water heater, un hinged type grill etc but has wire mesh headlight guards, again maybe an addition? I thought these guards were typical of the 1952 era M38A1s? It does have holes in the grill for the bar type guards as well.

Chris,

Congratulations! Do you have any pics to post? I don't know of anywhere else where the CFR could be found, but the Army did stop stamping the frame rails at some point (the 1952 M-100 I briefly owned was stamped, my '67 CDN2 is not), so if yours is a CDN3 it will probably not be stamped.

The data plates are probably additions to replace the Canadian ones, which may have faded (the printed parts of mine are very faded).

10" drums definitely suggests CDN3, but some CDN2s were also upgraded with 10" brakes. Both CDN2s and 3s have turn signals (but US models didn't, so far as I am aware), the heater and the unhinged grill. The wire mesh is likely aftermarket, and the bar guards are something I am not sure about. Some seem to have had them, others don't (my CDN2 has neither guards nor holes for them).

My VIN on the registration (I think, because ICBC still won't let me register it - I am inferring from their letters to me) corresponds to the manufacturer's number on the data plate, and to a CFR in the database (67-07840).

Good luck!

Mike