Heads Up: Chevrolet C15A water bowser

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by M.Morren

The vents were there though if I recall correctly.
I do have two pictures from under the hood where, if I'm not mistaken, you can (just barely) see the vents from the outside.

Hi Marty, yes, those are the vents indeed....and the pictures also show the Cab 12 brace behind the radiator. The vents came somewhere in the second half of 1940 during cab 11 production and were fitted to all cab 12's. My first assumption was that this truck was an early cab 11 (as it has a lot of early features) to which someone had fitted a 12cab nose and vents, but it seems I might be wrong here and it could well be a very early (nov/dec 1940?) cab12, with a mix of cab 11/12 features caused by the switch from one cab to the other and the parts on the production line being used up.

[Grant Bowker]

I neded to back-track, in two of the photos above I can see the ends of the stiffening brace just behind the radiator (one to each side of the radiator).

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Hi Marty, yes, those are the vents indeed....and the pictures also show the Cab 12 brace behind the radiator. The vents came somewhere in the second half of 1940 during cab 11 production and were fitted to all cab 12's. My first assumption was that this truck was an early cab 11 (as it has a lot of early features) to which someone had fitted a 12cab nose and vents, but it seems I might be wrong here and it could well be a very early (nov/dec 1940?) cab12, with a mix of cab 11/12 features caused by the switch from one cab to the other and the parts on the production line being used up.

Nice research, gents!

This could be a very interesting example of a "Cab 11 to 12 transition" CMP thup2:

PS: I added Arie's email address in the first posting (or click this link) so he can be reached easily by prospective buyers.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

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