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the cooler king · Post by **the cooler king** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:12 pm

Hellow I am a new member located in the pacific northwest.I am the owner of a 42 chevrolet winch dump model.I am close to a restore of this vehicle.two vehicles one truck.One of them possibley came from the alcan highway the way the frame was busted in several places. I read somewhere were most of the chevrolets went up there.That was to heavy work road building for the light chevy frame.They needed more cckws Purhaps the Chevrolets were what was ready and in abundance at the time.I placed a post in the chevy forum. Maybe should have been in cckw tech section?Great hobby. Great website. I just finished watching the film the GREAT ESCAPE this user name was something i had to have. The Cooler King

Bill_Wolf · Post by **Bill_Wolf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:43 pm

Welcome and Thank you for participating in the site.

It is coincidence that you brought up the Alcan as just last week there was a show on The History Channel about the Alcan highway. The show was a sequence on the "Modern Marvels' series. It full of period newsreel of Chevy trucks in use.

Again Thanks for joining. Please send on a picture of your truck.

Bill

the cooler king · Post by **the cooler king** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:34 pm

Thanks for the welcome.I saw the Alcan documentry also. That is what led me to believe the vehicles took such a thrashing.I dont know how to send a photo . There happens to be one on the front page of www.vehiclesofvictory.com
I dont know how long it will be on there . The chevy is navy color in the snow. The Cooler King

Lucky Forward · Post by **Lucky Forward** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:10 pm

A great Welcome to you. I am new here as well. I am waiting till my shop van gets here, my first cckw. I am told 15th of March. Anyway, there is tons of info here and a bunch of great folks to help you.
Denny

abn CCKW · Post by **abn CCKW** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:11 pm

welcome to the group , I m sure someone will have answers for any of the questions you might think of, I think you right about what they used for Vehicles for the basic road construction being tied to what was available at the time , The CCKW dump truck wasnt all that rugged either Its a light to medium dump truck at best , in the Pacific islands the CB's used 4 Ton Diamond T's as they were purpose built dump trucks with the heavy frames to take the pounding but likely were not available until much later in the war .