Open House with CCKWX for sale

Bill_Wolf · Post by **Bill_Wolf** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:16 am

Found this somewhere else....

We will be piggybacking on the Lowell,MA flea market with an open house at 8 Republic Rd. Billerica,MA (Exit 28 off Rte. 3, take right, then first right) Hours 1-5 PM.

Vehicles fo sale include a Pre WWII CCKWX, s/n 353-5141,B1
Among the earliest to be found, delivered 12/17/40. Has early brake system and Grp. 2 battery. Restored, ready to go,in excellent condition.

Also for sale are a Ford T-16 Universal Carrier (similar to the Bren Carrier) and 3 VOLVO BV-202 Snowcats (amphibious, articulated, all terrain, rubber tracked grandson of the Weasel)
Stop by, say hello, and kick some tires or tracks !

Manny Rogers

Anybody here going to Lowell???

mmoore · Post by **mmoore** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:59 pm

Bill, hope someone that goes to this open house gets a picture of the duce of Manny Rogers. according to Dr. Duce the military front clips started appearing in Oct. of 40, before that they must have had the civilan front clip. so this truck must have been very early, interesting, Mick

Bill_Wolf · Post by **Bill_Wolf** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:39 pm

mmoore wrote:Bill, hope someone that goes to this open house gets a picture of the duce of Manny Rogers. according to Dr. Duce the military front clips started appearing in Oct. of 40, before that they must have had the civilan front clip. so this truck must have been very early, interesting, Mick

I will be going to the event and will bring my Camera.

Manny is a great guy and it my hope that he will pull it outside so I can get some shots for the site.

They may be up on Sunday PM...

Bill

mmoore · Post by **mmoore** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:33 pm

sounds good Bill, be sure and get all the details, like how much is that little beauty worth???I'am trying to decide if I should go ahead and finish restoreing my second duece, or sell it and get something entirely different...Mick

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:30 pm

I have seen the truck or Manny's. It looks like an early CCKW. I believe it was Bryce Sunderlin who stated that the original production started in Jan 1941 for them, the "X's".

mmoore · Post by **mmoore** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:43 pm

Dr. Duce, can you elaborate more on the X in the seral number? according to the numbers I sent you, my truck is stamped on the right frame where it should be and it says cckwx 353 7189, now I have another one, that looks exactly like it, and it says cckw 352 37051. If I remember right you told me the first truck was manufactured about Dec. of 40, and the first change in the front clip was about Oct. of 40. is this info still correct?? or did I understand it incorrectly? thank you Dr. Duce, we all appreciate your knowledge...

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:00 pm

The CCKWX was the GMC designation with the X being for the 1st ~14,000 trucks in the 1st order as I recall. The trucks up to about 48,000 were pretty much the same except for a few details and the X was dropped. In GMC nomenclature, the X indicated a wheelbase that was not a GMC standard (special for the Army)

The 1939 and 1940 ACKWX trucks had the 39-40 cab (different though similar looking to the later CCKWs) and the 39-40 civy front fenders (again different than what would have been on the CCKWs had they used the 41-46 civy fenders)

Chevrolet started large scale military truck production in Oct 1940 as I recall. It appears that GMC may have started the CCKWXs earlier than Jan 1941 as many were lead to believe.

Hope this helps