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I believe I know this truck. Was/is the owner's initials DB?
We recovered it off a farm site near Swift current back in the mid 90s. It was, indeed, the 138th off the line. The ferret tires were picked up from the Beechy surplus dealer. As one of the early trucks, it had a key ignition. I think I still have the ignition switch out in the garage for this truck. I was going to try and make up the key. |
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That would be the unit. DB still owns it, but has moved to somewhere outside of Edmonton. He has donated it to their local vehicle museum. I believe they plan on putting some form of Grain Box on it to show what resourceful farmers were doing with them after the war. His brother was there to help get it out of its Long Term parking spot, and lined up for easy trailer loading. DB called to see if the tyres were flat! Both brothers were Amazed that they weren't.. until I pointed out that they are RF's, and "Flat" was Not a condition that they were capable of. I believe they said the truck originally came from around Neville, SK., and May have been part of a "field Recovery" training mission??
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I blew the inner tube on one of those tires on my KL welding lorry back n the day. We had stopped about 20 minutes out of Winnipeg, and were towing the truck behind an MLVW to go to a DND parade. We ended up towing it the rest of the way to Winnipeg, drove it downtown and through all of the parade, back to the base, and finally replaced the tire before the trip home. The KL is one heavy CMP, yet you could not tell that tire was flat.
That was a nice truck with lots of potential. I think I would have preferred seeing it go to a private collector to have restored to original, but in the end it's his truck to do as he pleases. |
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Do you realize how rare that truck is....... if the almost prestine registration tag is correct..... it was made in the first run starting April 1940.....and although it sports a Ford grill it is a CHEV...... has no side lights installed, now air vents... and probably no device to drive with the doors open inhot weather...... probably no rear axle black our convoy light......
Would be nice if some one from the area gained access and took XXXXXXXXX number of pictures of both inside and out...... underneath etc..... What happened to the repro wooden box that (Cletrac) had built and liquidated at his auction????? it was well made and woould be most appropriate for the early release.
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Bob Carriere....B.T.B C15a Cab 11 Hammond, Ontario Canada |
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Running board seems of a different style.....
One Ford door handle missing...... Typical Ford grill on early Chev......possible part shortage..... Nose sheet metal may have been removed/replaced and original flat head screws and washers replaced with regular bolt heads. One the radiator cover.... the shroud that actually covers the radiator.....3 fasteners on each side........ to my knowledge it is near impossible to re-install one of these 3 bolts after the assembly line manufacturing...... you remove it but can get to the back side and does not have a hidden caged nut. Front bumper is bent steel and not C channel.... Front brush guard was probably not installed on the original factory built.... Below the radiator the sheet metal is missing..... Alex .... Paul.... any other things you might have noticed???? Cheers
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Bob Carriere....B.T.B C15a Cab 11 Hammond, Ontario Canada |
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