New to me C60L's

[Ken Smith]

Good day,

I thought I read somewhere that the cab 13 Canadian Chev engine cover and the Australian Holden engine cover are different.
Is that correct?

Ken

[Ken Smith]

Good day,
I got the RAAF Derrick Chev shown above home this week, and I am happy with it. I might poke an engine in it one day. I have a 235 spare, unfortunately it has the engine mounts on the side not on the front like the 216. Lucky I am not in any hurry.

I also purchased the C15 and the F15 that was in the paddock with the Derrick.
The F15 is interesting. I thought it was a bitzer, it is the opposite sort of, the ARN on the front is 53899 which is a Ford 6 seater utility and I assumed that the front had been put on to the F15.
I bought 2 Ford transmissions from the same place, and 1 of the boxes has the correct chassis number 3G24582 for ARN 53899. So I have the remains of a hard worked and 6 seater utility.
The rear part of the cab is not bolted on and is fitted upside down. There are other tell tale sign on the back and sides of the floor pan to indicate it was a 6 seater.

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I only purchased it to fit the springs and axles, to my Cab 11 F15 which will make it easier to move it around. Funny thing is both trucks have had about 30 inches added to the middle of the chassis.
The 6 seater has a tac sign with a Boomerang at the bottom but I can't make out the top part clearly, it could be a crocodile, maybe.

Ken

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Good day,

I thought I read somewhere that the cab 13 Canadian Chev engine cover and the Australian Holden engine cover are different.
Is that correct?

Ken

Hi Ken


Here is a link to photos and measurements for the Canadian made Pattern 13 engine cover http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/P...20Drawings.htm



Hope that somebody with a Holden Pat 13 cover can take a look to see what the differences are, might be that they are completely different and not interchangeable or may be that they are just different and are interchangeable as a unit.


Cheers Phil

[Ken Smith]

Thanks Phil, those detailed measurements will be handy. I do have an engine cover in my Indian C60L but would like to have the correct Canadian one, I suspect the one I have is Australian.
Your pictures and measurements will be a big help.
Ken

[Ken Smith]

I went up the road to where I got the 6 seater from, to show my friend a photo of what the truck looked like originally. He said I better come for a walk up the yard and have a look at the other bits that he had found in the last few days and see if they were part of the truck.

I now have the original roof and the front door posts. It appears my friend's Dad had started to convert the 6 seater to a F15 or wreck it, not sure which.

Here is a photo of the door posts, a photo of the interior of the cab and one of the very faded tac sign.

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[Ken Smith]

It is funny how things happen. I was going through Wayne Henderson's thread on the perfect restoration of his Chev 6 seater, and when I got to the last photo with the beautiful pleated seat, I noticed the anchor on the floor for the seat restraining strap. I knew I had seen one of them in my junk pile.
So down to my bits and pieces behind the shed, to an old Chev cab I saved from a local wrecking yard 30 years ago. I have never done anything with it as the roof has always annoyed me as it is made out of 2 pieces.
It turns out it is a Chev 6 seater cab, complete with a fairly rotted original wood frame seat and the left hand side appears to have a strap very much like the one in Wayne's photo.
Unfortunately the cab doesn't have any visible ARN.
I took a couple of photos and was interested in the 2 little clips riveted to the passenger side only, near where the front windscreen lock is.
Ken
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