Blitz Chassis and Truck info wanted

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Jason Linders

I am planing on rebuilding this poor old girl, so the chassis is standed and has not been cut and rewelded to make a shot wheel base then, if that the case ill have a mate fix the cracked rails properly and replate it.and is the winch between the rails standed. and what is it then a f60s or a f60l

It is a FGT chassis, Ford Gun Tractor.

You might find it easier to get a F15A chassis and transfer the bits onto it.

As Tony mentioned it would be good if it is possible to discern the Army Rego number once painted under the windscreen.

The winch looks to have the drum on the wrong side, but it is a blitz winch.

[Jason Linders]

Thanks for all the help and how would one go with the missing rear cab section

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Jason Linders

Thanks for all the help and how would one go with the missing rear cab section

You could either be incredibly lucky and find one or you could fabricate it - the drawings exist for the No9 FGT (we have almost all of those) and probably also for the No8 too but not sure how you could access them.

[Keith Webb]

Looks like you have a number of stencils there.



Worth giving it a gentle wet and dry to see what you can bring out.

Usually it will be "GT 42" but at the factory the full model designation was often hand painted there.

[Ken Smith]

Good day Jason,
Nice to see another one saved. I have a rear section of a No 8 body I would be interested in selling, pm me if interested.
Cheers Ken

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Good day Jason,
Nice to see another one saved. I have a rear section of a No 8 body I would be interested in selling, pm me if interested.
Cheers Ken

Hi Ken,
If Jason doesn't buy it I'd be very interested myself. I'll wait to hear the outcome as I don't want to jump the queue!
Cheers,
Tony

[Ken Smith]

Good day Tony,
The body has sold , I am happy to see it go to where it will do some good in another restoration.

Cheers Ken

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Looks like you have a number of stencils there.

They're probably service history stencils like those found on FGT8 ARN 132257. This is Northern Command record so possibly a stablemate of Jason's FGT8 at some stage. Stencils appear to read:

Date repair to Class
Class before repair
N/Comd
Mileage before repair

Mine shows E/R (presumably Engine Replacement) some time in '57, and Jason's shows a '50s date in the same location, so I'm tipping it also refers to engine replacement.

[Jason Linders]

Thanks for all you help with this Tony

[Tony Wheeler]

Here's a pic of the chassis I mentioned Jason. It's very clean and straight, the only imperfections being the missing rear crossmember, damaged fishplates (wrong type for FGT anyway), some oxy damage to the round holes in the chassis rail ends, plus a bit of steel welded onto them.

I need the running gear off this chassis but the frame is yours for $100 if you finish up needing it. I'd leave the springs on as yours have had a hard life.

Judging by your pics I suspect you'd need two new rear crossmembers and some new fishplates as well. I'll be getting several of each made up in due course so I can increase the order if need be. Also I'm not sure the winch crossmember fishplates are present on your chassis, so if you can post some pics of this area I can check.

Anyway it's here if you ever need it and I'll keep it in case you do. As I said though you may be better off with a complete truck if you can find a suitable one up there.

[Keith Webb]

This is on my FGT and shows the same Canadian winch installation as yours would have been fitted with originally. The cable is paid out through the rear fairleads then forward to the fairleads on the bumper, which is why it is on the left side.