Finally home!

General Discussion about the WW2 Chevy Trucks 2 and 4 wheel drive. Technical aspects should be discussed the the CCKW Tech forum. Forsale/Wanted should be addressed in the CCKW Forsale or Wanted catagory
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Finally home!

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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! Image
Restored M-2-A-1 half-track, 41 CCKW SWB closed cab yard truck, working on open cab G-506 cargo truck
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The only open cabbed Chevrolet is an M6 Bomb Truck

Be advised that the steering arm on the front axle is different between a CCKW & Chevy seeings where you are missing the front axle from the picture
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1942 CCKW closed cab shopvan
1943 CCKW closed cab cargo w/M32 MG mount
1944 CCKW open cab LeRoi Kompressor
1944 CCKW open cab F1 Aircraft fueler tanker
1945 CCKW open cab cargo w/artic cab
1942 Chev cargo
1942 Chev K51 Panel
1944 Chev M6 Bomb Truck
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Re: Finally home!

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The front axle is in the bed, the blew up the outer joint, I have a parts Chevy I've been holding onto as well, really rough but with a complete under carriage, so between it and the CCKW I should have enough parts. I know Chevy never built and open cab cargo truck but I've wanted another open cab truck ever since I traded my M-37 for my first half-track 10 years ago, and it's just too expensive to drive a CCKW around town, with the Chevy you have 4 less wheels, three less U joints, plus it's a lot shorter and weighs a lot less so it won't be as expensive to license, AZ wanted $500 a year to license a CCKW.
Restored M-2-A-1 half-track, 41 CCKW SWB closed cab yard truck, working on open cab G-506 cargo truck
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