Posted by Gordon on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 12:09:21 :
Right then, finally managed to get back to the garage today and get
some stuff done - made some interesting finds...
1. I had a spare Dodge 6 that came with one of my previous WC 36 4 x
2 Carryalls. Never took much interest in it as it had been left
sitting and seized, plus it had a " Chrysler Industrial IND 6A "
plate on the side of the block so I assumed it was just an industrial
motor. When I had to shift it today I found the block serial number
pad had a T116-xxxxxx code on it - just right for my 1941 T116 one
ton panel van, albeit with a rather high sequential production
number. Anyone have any opinions (Eric?) why it had an IND 6A plate
on the side?
2. Since it was warm today I spread some paint stripper over
strategic parts of the WD 21 panel van to get back to the original
paint colours. I knew that it had been army olive green at one time
as I kept running across that paint but I wanted to get back as close
to the factory paintwork as I could.
Here's the unusual findings though; the dash had white gloss paint
under everything else, sitting on top of factory grey primer and a
nice job too - looks to be factory. No army green on the dash /
interior at all.
But... the outside of the truck had army olive green as the bottom
colour all over, no exceptions that I could find, and it had gloss
white on top of that as a second good paintjob - plus about four
other colours thrown on after that.
So I have a truck that was olive green outside and white inside -
apparently from the factory, and some time later the outside was
painted white to match the interior. Now the only thing I can think
of with that colour scheme would be an army ambulance... Ideas
anyone?
Gordon