Posted by Eric B. on Friday, June 17, 2005 at 9:57AM :
In Reply to: Note,...... posted by MoparNorm on Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 9:31PM :
Norm,
The Green 2wd Carryall is a 1942-43ish truck, and it does have the clamshell doors.
The 1940 VC-6 as Gordon said is based on a 1940 VC 2wd panel body. The VD-21 would have been too long, 133" WB Vs 116" WB.
The 1/2 ton WC-26 to 3/4 ton WC-53 changes may have lost the 4.5" in height that make the panel rear doors fit, but I never checked this measurement.
After the VC-6 which is just a 1940 VC panel body with the windows added, all the carryalls were built special.
All the speculation about Carryall rear doors being built by the same company that also built Chevy stuff etc does not take into account that those companies were building everything special. It is VERY unlikely that there is any other vehicle running around with doors that are of the same size and shape, and even if there are, the body lines would be wrong as the Carryall was based on Dodge only body parts.
Interchange was not a condsideration for this sort of thing, the numbers for the WC-53 were over 8,000, plenty to justify special tooling. Heck someone went and made rear panel doors into clamshell doors for the 24 VC-6s, that is a lot of work to go through if something that fit was already made for another application.
Eric
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