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Old 01-03-05, 00:20
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Old 01-03-05, 00:55
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Jesus, what an exercise.
I started out to post some good example photos of late 30's Chevs and ran into a major storm with my photo editing program, just did not want to cooperate.

Anyway, we have lots of questions about Chev ID of the late thirties, early forties so I thought to post a catalogue photo of at least one example of each year which I felt best gave the ID clues for each year.

I will try to fill in with pics of 1932 to 1936 soon.
thanks for your patience, I was about ready to throw out my PC as I had to edit each photo about 4 times before it was accepted here due to size limitations.
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Old 01-03-05, 08:45
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...the COE trucks? I will have to dig out my 1937-on Canadian brochures as that's when the first COE Chevs were produced by Oshawa and Pontiac, MI plant for export. I have brochures [British] 1924-1931 to complete the set.
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thanks for that Bill.

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Old 01-03-05, 14:32
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Morning all:

David, I will do the COE pics tonight.
If it is of interest to the group, I can do much the same ID sample photos for Fords, IH, Dodge and maybe a few others. It takes a while as the photos are in many different reference works and I have to resize all of them. I will also try to edit the posts to point out the most obvious differences between year models.
Please let me know if this is of any value.
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Canadian 1937 Models! Note the tractor-trailer unit..and also the 6-wheeler [which may perhaps have been a Thornton conversion].

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Morning all:

David, I will do the COE pics tonight.
If it is of interest to the group, I can do much the same ID sample photos for Fords, IH, Dodge and maybe a few others. It takes a while as the photos are in many different reference works and I have to resize all of them. I will also try to edit the posts to point out the most obvious differences between year models.
Please let me know if this is of any value.
Bill
Bill I for one would value this. Especially the Ford and IH and a few other ones.

Thank you for taking the time to do this my friend.

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Old 01-03-05, 22:54
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Especially the Ford
Cliff, see www.flatheadv8.com for an excellent online model identification chart.

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Hanno thanks for the link that is an excellent site and now part of my favourites list.

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Guys any chance of putting the wheelbases of the common models. I want to do a fitters truck from the North South road (Stuart Highway). These were indian cabbed 39 or 40 models and highly modified.

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38coe, sorry for lousy pic, only one I could find for tonight.+Bill
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Is the '40 COE from a Danish [GM International] or Belgian/Dutch [GM Continental] brochure? The existence of the tractor unit in the export market suggests that there was also a GMC equivalent. This may answere the query as to why there were at least two or three GMC tractor units, 1940 Models, that were used for transporting grain lifters. I suspect that these were diverted orders, either en route to Antwerp or Copenhagen/Stockholm. In the case of the latter a large consignment of civilian GM trucks bound for Denmark was interecepted by the Royal Navy in 1940 and landed in England. There was a kerfuffle between GM in Southampton/London and New York with the British Government because GM claimed that the consignment was due to be delivered to Denmark for Norwegian and Swedish dealers, and both at the time were neutral. The Government attitude was that Denmark was occupied and the Norwegian and Swedish deliveries could not be completed, even though the shipment was US-owned. I am certain that the consignment of Chevtrolet and GMC cars and trucks was auctioned off and the proceeds handed to the Treasury.
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