Heads Up: Restored C-60L Cab13 For Sale

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Gerry

A Pat 13 C60L with a 261 engine should make this one great truck to drive. My Pat 13 Radio truck became a real pleasure to drive when I put a 261 in. Make it so much more comfortable to drive one the roads today. Will hold speed with traffic and you are not going crazy down shifting on steep grades.

The brake booster also help make this a real drivable truck.

The 261 with the running 216 as a spare that was good thinking.

Again hope it finds a good home.

Cheers Phil

[Marc Montgomery]

Robert you should have bought mine..It was complete, and an original and extremely rare winch model.. and a beauty driver.. drove it back and forth to Ottawa a few times.. and went on the Belgian tour too. It had a 235.. the minimun you'd want.. I would have put a 261 in it if I had had the time, and money. Unfortunately I sold it, to out west..

It was also a PE-197 (1944) but with its orig 20in rims. and it was destined for a radar train which fits as it had an REL tag in the cab, and the winch. It was certainly not built with C-15 parts.

Also original square hatch, not round, and the later spare tire carrier. The truck was original having been purchased from the military directly to the small town municipality, where it spend most of its decades of service, inside the fire hall.
When I bought it, I was only the second owner !

What are difficult to find for this are the things like the large storage boxes and POW carriers. Shovel mounts on the box on passenger side, and pick and helve on box driver side. And details like the passenger floor mounted grab handle.

Never went for a key start.. I liked the switch and floor start lever...

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery

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Never went for a key start.. I liked the switch and floor start lever...

Hi Marc

I always felt that CMPs were inherently protected from theft from the casual modern thief. In many countries they are going to climb into the wrong side of the cab in the first place. Then they have to actually be able to read to figure out which lever does what. Then they are going to be limited to about 15 MPH as escape speed because they won't be able to shift out of second gear assuming they can figure out that the can start it in 2nd.

Having said all of that I have added either a fuel shutoff valve or switch to kill the electric fuel pump as a real deterrent. Figure if they are going to steal it then getting it running only to have it die once on the road is more effective.

But back to Gerry's truck, when you sell it hope you will be sure plug the new owner into the MLU and CMP community if they are not already familiar with it.

Cheers Phil

[Gerry]

Hi Phil,
Thanks for your comments and I will be sure to get the new owner onto MLU. I have an ignition switch cut off key but the starter is still the large floor lever.
Cheers,
Gerry

[Jordan Baker]

Just as an aside, the data plates that came with my CMP are very close to this one. However I was told my cab was from a C60 (its now on a C15a chassis). I cant verify it but I know at lease the dash was.

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Jordan

Not sure if there would be specific differences between the cab 13 of a C15,C30 or C60...... welll yes the obvious differences in the floor plate for the 2 speed T case.......

Remember that the Aussie contract was C60 with C15a small axle power train WITH the 2 speed T case. I have seen such trucks a few days apart in the construction dates with rectangular instrument clusters of the 1940 as well as the laetr round dials. Some with and some with out rood hatches.

Maybe GM was cleaning up on what was left on the inventory/shelves and gambling on such hungry clients it would not be noticed.... besides a lot of them never got to destination but in Davy Jones' locker.

Just out of curiosity.... what kind of instruments do you have...... besides the accordion you hide under your bed.

Cheers

[Jordan Baker]

Maybe it was just the dash that came from a C60. My dash has round gauges.