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Old 22-01-05, 15:25
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Default GMC 453 for sale

I posted this MilWeb ad here because I´d guess there aren´t many of these still around:
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GMC 453
1940 4x2 cargo Restored - very good state. Picture on demand. Only serious interested please
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Gilis Guy 15 January '05
Is this one of those diverted French Army contract trucks?

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Old 22-01-05, 18:36
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The Models ACX-453 and AC-453 were apparently either civilian or US Army orders.
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Old 23-01-05, 00:04
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The Models ACX-453 and AC-453 were apparently either civilian or US Army orders.
Vanderveen notes the ACX-504 was supplied to the British Army following cancellation of French contract in 1939/40.

I´m guessing the GMC offered for sale is a CC-453. Pretty rare truck, as GMC only built a total of 736 4x2 trucks during 1939-42.

Here´s one pictured in Normandy 2004...
http://users.pandora.be/theliberator.../Gmc%20usn.jpg
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...and one in a scrapyard
http://www.framno.org/junkyard/gmccc453.jpg
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