Finally home!
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:03 am
After waiting five years I was finally able to get my Chevy home, as well as a 61 Ford F-100 unibody and a Tucker Snocat. The snocat I bought because I knew I could sell it, the Ford I'll hang on to, as a maybe later project, the real treasure was the Chevy, The cab is about as perfect as you can find, no rust anywheres, and the hood and fender are really nice, the data plate says it's a 12/42 cab, the bed data plate says 5/45, must have gone through a rebuild before it was sold, oh yeah all the data plates are still there and almost perfect, the engine is stuck, the reason it got into the junk yard was because the blew up the front axle outer joint, so the front end was pulled, but for some reason the gas tank was taken and the movable part of the spare tire mount and they also pulled the transfer case,but the bed is very clean,even the wood is in good shape, now come the fun part, I'm dropping a CCKW 270 with the 5 speed and putting an open cab on it, I saw a picture of a Chevy with a CCKW open cab on it years ago before I bought my first GMC, I was going to cut down the frame on the CCKWX I had bought but too many people told me I shouldn't, so I waited till I found this truck, I managed to hold onto the very clean open cab with a good running engine but no bed and a badly butchered frame and ugly front sheet metal so I don't feel too bad about cutting it up, so next week when I get the other vehicle put away I start on this project! Anyone have a picture of a open cab Chevy, it's been too many computers ago and I lost the picture!