Posted by Gordon on August 02, 1999 at 02:03:34:
In Reply to: Difference between 1/2 t and 3/4 t Carryalls? posted by Rick Charles on August 01, 1999 at 22:03:19:
Well, i think the first couple of replies have about covered it.
Proctor Keefe altered the '39 series panel van body to make the first Carryall (VC6)but it sat too high on the frame, the side windows weren't framed, and so on. My WC 36 has many of the same features as the VC 6. The ordinary half ton carryalls had cut fenders but still had the passengers side mounted spare and higher skirts above the running boards. When they got to the 3/4 ton WC 53 they shifted the spare wheel location and replaced it with a battery box, though the panel in question on y WC 53 looks like it could have been a factory leading job rather than a new body side pressing. they also dropped it by about four inches onto the chassis, requiring a transmission tunnel and several holes in the rear floor to allow for the chassis kick-up. It would be quite possible to hack either type of body about and fit it to the other chassis, but you would end up short of a transmission tunnel, or a spare wheel mount, or the like.
Parts like the doors, screen, and tail / lift gates should interchange no problem, as will winder mechanisms and the like. Body sections above the midway line would be OK too, and some , but not all, of the lower areas.
gordon