Re: Tom


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 11:16:56 :

In Reply to: Tom posted by clueless [186.15.41.5] on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:09:22 :

If there are two trucks with the same type of well-made wood-framed cab, then I suspect there was somebody doing the conversions commercially. For example know of at least three styles of metal cabs that are commonly seen on M37s, only one of which was the official military "arctic cab". The others need filler pieces to make them fit, but you see a lot of each kind. Then there are also the aftermarket fiberglass cabs.

Someone really familiar with pre-war trucks might recognize your WC cab as something off of some other truck that might have been common in junk yards back then. That would be like the not-quite-right "donor" cabs on the M37s. Another possibility is that there was such a market for enclosed cabs that somebody got some old-school coach builder to build a quantity of wood-and-metal ones on an aftermarket basis. This would have been in the days before fiberglass, of course, and if they were only doing a small run, maybe to convert 10-100 surplus trucks for civilian sale, it would have been cheaper than setting up the tooling to make proper sheet metal cabs.



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