5/4 van body

Jon Skagfeld · #1 06-10-10, 06:17

Hey, Rob: If it was a comms body, where is the flip up door for the electrical/charger connections?

Memories...my CP CFR was 29264. Believe it or not, we ran the comms suite with a Starlight generator.

rob love · #2 06-10-10, 14:02

The doors are on the opposite side. One has the usual telephone line, AC and DC connections. The other panel has had something removed so acts more like a window now. I am not familiar with what would have gone in there.

rob love · #3 23-11-10, 04:31

Here is the truck with a new roof and the van body installed. The roof had a huge patch on it from all the walking over it, and as a result a lot of water found it's way through all the pop rivets. I had to replace both the inner and outer skins. I just managed to splash some paint on it before the real cold hit, so the cam pattern is reversed in relation to the two greens on the van body. I also managed to find the telephone panel that was missing on one of those little side doors.

The cargo box is now under refurb. The body putty was so thick, it would fall off in large pieces. Sixteen years of service put these commercial off the shelf trucks through a lot of abuse.

Aide Memoire · #4 15-12-10, 05:29

Wound up with two of those at work, still in CF camo, ex-741 Comm Sqn (Res.) Victoria. Both were still the old format type off the Five-Quads as removed with the older interior layout (mapboard etc.) and still had all the shelving, electrical box, heater etc. though again had all the IKEE stuff removed. I don't know how they escaped being turned into LS pods by the Criminal Carpentry Corps, but the current owner found them in a field in the prairies somewhere and shipped them back here. One is currently mounted to an ex-Air Force M1010 Amb chassis that they stripped the back body off of in error (we wound up with two of those at work), and the other is sitting as a project waiting to get mounted on one of the 5/4s kicking around as soon as I can chisel off a couple of hundred pounds of bondo of the best one and replace a few really brutalized body parts. Then it'll be kitted out VHF x 2 and HF.

Heard of one other that came out of Crown Assets locally - Richmond at the time - and it was also on a white ex-UN CUCV. Came across the owner sans truck about a year ago at the gas station (I was driving a CUCV Blazer which got his attention) and he said he still had it. One of the other collectors in town told me the fellow had been to just about every shop in town after he bought it trying to get the thing to start reliably after he bought it from CADC.

rob love · #5 15-12-10, 15:49

Do yours have the same style corners and top as the one I have shown, or are they the early style with the rounded corners? Only the early boxes were to be retained.

I recently found some of the rear tail lamp cages and a couple of new reverse lights for it. The tail light cages were new in the box for $1 each.

I have also been trying to find some of the original 6" tail lamp units, but apparently these are obsolete. Everything today is either 4", 5" or 7". The original will be in a surplus place somewhere. What fun would this hobby be without the parts hunt.