C8A s/n 3844515289 1943

[M.Morren]

Thank you, Hanno!

Here are the oldest photos I have of the HUM. These were taken before the first restoration by Roy Wellburn in Williams Lake, BC.

IMG_20190212_235743__01.jpgHUP C8A-MACH-ZL Roy Wellburn collection as found.jpg
I got the scan of the photo from the back from Colin Stevens, while the other photo came with the truck.


Here are some photos that were taken while the truck was in Williams Lake.

IMG_20190212_234845__01.jpgIMG_20190212_235112__01.jpgIMG_20190212_235156__01.jpg

Here are photos of the truck in March 2019

[M.Morren]

Some more photos from while the truck was in Roy's collection.

IMG_20190212_234950__01.jpg IMG_20190212_235220__01.jpg

IMG_20190212_235242__01.jpg IMG_20190212_235445__01.jpg

IMG_20190212_235510_01__01.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hello Marty,

Thanks for sharing those pictures of your truck's early days. Hopefully others who know this C8A will help in piecing together it's history.

Hanno

[M.Morren]

And finally a photo of the data plates on the back.
IMG_20190212_234328__01_.jpgdataplates.jpg

Here some clear photos with the numbers clearly visible.
IMG_20190213_000437__01 (2).jpgIMG_20190213_000627__01 (2).jpg

The Chrysler plate is interesting. It suggests that there were quite a few ZL-1 variants built.

[M.Morren]

Here are some clearer photos of the dash plates.

DSC01139.JPGDSC01140.JPGDSC01141 (1).JPG

These do indeed suggest that Zl-1s were converted HUPs. The body tag suggests the same.

[M.Morren]

Where would a ZL-1 fit in the RCEME structure?
I'm planning to dress my truck up as RCEME in the 5th Armored Div. Now I need to know where it fitts in the best. Presumably not the Light Aid Detachments?

Cheers!

[M.Morren]

Currently adding markings to the truck. I decided to go with census CZ 4212641. I am planning on adding the unit and formation markings this week. The truck will be dressed up as 5th Armored and RCEME, 5th Armored brigade workshop (99).

[James P]

^ Nice truck.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by M.Morren

Here are photos of the truck in March 2019

Attaching these pics here so they can be viewed:

IMG_20190323_171527.jpg IMG_20190323_171226.jpg

IMG_20190323_171757.jpg IMG_20190323_171744.jpg

[M.Morren]

The HUM passed the RDW inspection this morning!

Now we need to wait for the registration certificate to arrive to order the license plates.
The HUM should be able to get on the road in a week or two, finally!

2020-09-18 18_58_49-Foto - Google Foto's.jpg

And yes, it now has this very nice stamped chassis number...

IMG_20200918_100859.jpg IMG_20200918_121629.jpg

IMG_20200918_125621.jpg 70bec114-81ea-4a2c-856d-e6e4c992802f.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Congrats! Another C8A graces the Dutch roads again.

[M.Morren]

Today I fitted the new blinkers that I made so that they can be removed easily if I want to. The blinkers itself are, what I believe to be, from the Belgian army around the 1950s or '60s. These are much nicer than the blinkers that were fitted when I bought the HUM.

blinkers.jpg

blinkerwire.jpg

blinker.jpg

I didn't want to drill any holes so I had to pick a location that has a bolt that is easily removable. Luckily the bottom bolt which holds the windshield post is exactly that! I ordered some laser-cut metal plates which are held together by the two M5 screws in the blinker body. The bottom plate has an M10 threaded rod with a hole drilled through the center to accept the positive wire for the light.

mount.jpg

After tapping, the bottom (thickest) plate had to be modified a bit to let the cable through to the tapped hole and into the threaded rod. (I didn't want to break the tap of course)

It took a bit of tinkering to get what I wanted, but I'm very pleased with the result!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Nice job Marty, really looks good!

[M.Morren]

Not much has happened since the HUM passed the inspection. Last August, the Generator stopped working again. This was after I had a quick repair done to the armature coil as it was burned through at one point. I decided to send it off so it could be professionally rebuilt. The armature was sent to Italy where they could rewind it for several hundred euros less (the rest was done here in NL). Because of this, and most likely covid, it took several months to get it back. And when I got it back the truck did not come out of the garage because the winter had arrived and I don't want to drive the truck with all roads covered in wet salt...

Generator.jpg

Since the winter has passed (mostly...) we have driven it a couple of times and very much enjoyed it!

One of the last major visible changes for a while will be the restoration of the side curtains. 2 of them seem to be original with little to no work done to them while the other 5 had the canvas replaced. I'm not really a fan of the 'new' canvas, which has to be around 40 years old already, so I'll be using the 2 remaining original ones as templates for the new canvas.

While examining the, what seems to be, still original side curtains I noticed that they have some kind of small metal plates under some of the nuts.

side curtains1.jpg

Side curtains 2.jpg

One of the curtains which had new canvas added still has the original paint left, and the locations where the plates used to be are still visible. So it looks like the plates used to be on all the side curtains. (at least, all side curtains from the workshop area of the HUM.)

Does anyone know what these are and why they are there? Any info on this will be greatly appreciated!