C60 cwt Signals CZMk IV

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Gordon

The finished product looks great, and from all your post along the way we have gotten to see the detail that went it to that finished product.

The empty weight of 4290Kg comes out to 9458Lbs which is just a little lighter than my C60S with S56 radio box total of just over 10,000Lbs. with the heavy radio table, spares storage cabinet and spare tire in the back. All load to go to a show just over it runs 11,000Lbs.

Again great work.

Cheers Phil

[Walde Libera]

You have done well! I remember the year got my FAT (CGT)on the road it had issues with shakiing steering . I thought it was cold tires or old rubber you know it takes a little time to become round especially when it's sitting a while.

I checked everything finally I balanced my front wheels, cost me a $100 bucks but it made the truck drivable what a differance. Instead of using the ugly clip weights I used stick on flat ones and painted them OD.

Walde

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Gordon,

It looks stunning! Not many CMPs with Lindsay house type bodies are properly restored.

Why not ship it over to Holland and join The Final Push early next year? You can live in the back

Hanno

[Gordon Yeo]

Hanno

I have looked at The Final Push and thought what a great experience it would be. Having been to Holland in May 1995 and May 2010 I know how things get done there!! To take the C60 would be VERY expensive, 2000 Km trucking to Halifax Nova Scotia, RO-RO shipping to Holland, staging to the tour departure, then the tour and back home. It would be cheaper to buy a vehicle in Holland!
A more reasonable approach would be to convince one of your countryman they desperately need someone with them, who can play the bagpipes and help pay for the gas money.
Not many Lindsay bodied trucks are restored because they are great lumbering gas guzzlers, have been butchered or had the bodies removed. This one, as it turns out, is a very special one. The Design Records lists the number of Signals Van CZ MkIV bodies having been built as 14. The van body on this truck is #9, any one care to guess how many of the original 14 still exist? Its other great salvation was that it was never turned into civilian use. When I was going to buy it there had been no civilian road registration for the vehicle.

Walde

Thank you for the tip on balancing the front tires. I still don't have many miles on the truck yet but it does have a vibration around 32mph. Lots of tweaking to do yet before it gets ready for next summer. My RCEME V-teck is home on Christmas break next weekend and I'll put him to work, again. Right Neil.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gordon Yeo

I have looked at The Final Push and thought what a great experience it would be. Having been to Holland in May 1995 and May 2010 I know how things get done there!! To take the C60 would be VERY expensive, 2000 Km trucking to Halifax Nova Scotia, RO-RO shipping to Holland, staging to the tour departure, then the tour and back home. It would be cheaper to buy a vehicle in Holland!
A more reasonable approach would be to convince one of your countryman they desperately need someone with them, who can play the bagpipes and help pay for the gas money.

Gordon, just kidding about bringing over the truck, though some guys with deep enough pockets actually have done this in the past.

But indeed, why not join The Final Push in person? Let's work on this idea, maybe we can convince more Canadian MLU members to come over.

PS: here's a picture of my truck carrying 6 members of a Dutch pipe & drum band last June in Normandy.

H.

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[Gordon Yeo]

Mike

Here are two pictures to give you an idea of what the underside the steel panels look like with the interior plywood removed.

[Marc Montgomery]

Beautiful work Gord! Such a rare vehicle...often wish I hadn't sold my own 60cwt.. it used to drive like a dream...although with the 900x20's it was happy at 85-90 kmp, 100 was pushing it. (and really happy at about 50-60kmh. and it too was a rare one, an REL contract and so had the big winch as fitted to FAT's
I only ever used the 4wd twice and on both occasions it was amazing..once when taking it out of storage in a barn across a soft field, I stopped for the gate and it slowly sank. trying to get out with RWD only succeeding in sinking it further up to the diffs...4wd pulled it right out...wow..

BTW- there was a junkyard in Quebec about 15 years ago with a few lindsay bodies (and a few cmps) they were using as storage for parts.. I mentioned it at the time, but dont think anyone else ever went there to save them.. The yard and TONS of parts all gone now...sigh.

anyway.... again beautiful work ! Congrats for saving the piece of Canadian history !! well done that man!!