Heads Up: Restored C-60L Cab13 For Sale

[Marc Montgomery]

George that would have been the same contract as mine.. Alas dont have the serial or date, but I think it was May. Did yours have an original winch? Mine did. This was very rare on a 60, and I was told it was used to hoist the radar masts into place.

I remember in my search for parts, I came across a guy with about 40 crates of orig wheel scotches. Wanted to know if i would buy them all...damned if i can remember at all where or who it was... wonder what happened to them.
I bought a crate (two) for my truck-

Actually, I not seem to recall that the top bows had collars and pins set so the bows were only about maybe 8in (?) and then if you wanted to lower the top for reduced height roughly equivalent to cab height, you pulled the pins out (attached by small linked chain to the collars, and the bows slid down to the stops in the side channels.

I see the Stevensville (ont) group is selling a 1944 C60...looks like a very good basis for a resto.

[rob love]

Not wheel scotches but the local surplus guy has crates of the winch anchor kits (holdfasts?), consisting of an anchor and a bunch of large pegs to hold it to the ground. The winch cable would be attached to those and the truck self extricated.

[George McKenzie]

There was a site bout my truck about a year ago . This truck was for the RCAF used in Canada only .It is painted yellow and had a winch between the back wheels for setting up the radar tower .Mine is 53 and the one at Comox is 52 .Rob ,I have a set of anchor pins for my DT969 They are about 3 ft long and 1" diamiter . will a channel iron frame .

[Bob Carriere]

....damned if i can remember at all where or who it was... wonder what happened to them......

First thing to go is the memory Marc..... then you rlast tooth will fall out....

The Scotch guy was Dennis Walker from the St Catherines area ..... got a few from him a pair travelled to Phil W. for his cab 12.

Dennis as retired from GM his last big farm move, which followed your dealing with him, resulted in a thinning of the herd BUT he still has an impressive collection. He is still buying and collecting.

Not sure if he still has the wheel scotches available.

Cheers

[Marc Montgomery]

Sorry Bob....i forget...what was it we were talking about again?? teehee

Dennis Walker?? St Catharines...seems a bit out of my way...but maybe (??)
Other things I've forgotten...
-the guy who had about 12 restorable Gpw's and MBs in his barn..somewhere in Oshawa whitby area (???).. said I could have them all if I gave him one restored one back....no idea who or where..
-a guy with about a dozen or so orig 16in tyres- wouldn't part with them.. a house mover-said no other tire was low like that and that strong..

[Bob Carriere]

Dennis is the one that had all these machinist CMP boxes ...or stores boxes covered with chicken wire to hold up the tarps..... you featured them in Convoy hoping some would be purchased-saved...... I think most got scrapped and he saved only a few during the last move.

How time flies......

Cheers

[Marc Montgomery]

yeah lots of great info -stories in Convoy..sigh...but you know the story about that

anyway, there was a junkyard in St Hyacinthe a couple of decades ago that had several CMP wrecks, a few CMP 2 and 3ton trailers and also several varietis of office bodies, Office, machinist, dental, etc these were full of odds and ends of old vehicle parts...but were all restorable from what i could see, also couple of CMP 2 and 3ton trailers, and lots of other very interesing things as well

Across the road the guy showed me a warehouse with maybe 50 (probably more) crates of NOS Jowett engined generators!

I remember mentioning this to everyone I could at the time, but I guess distance is a factor and I dont think any collectors (that I knew) actually went there
Of course the place is long-gone..along with all those treasures, probably turned into Toyotas and Hondas, probably since recycled as well