Posted by John Eickhof [208.98.157.8] on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 22:47:32 :
In Reply to: Re: M37 bed on a WC 1/2ton pics? posted by Milo in Pa [71.116.20.220] on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 21:05:39 :
Pacific Gas and Electric had a fleet of over 200 PWs in northern California after WW2,(all were built in San Leandro, PG&E is based on Oakland Ca. (a few miles away) they had most with the stock pickup bed (like the ex PG&E truck I have) However, they had some with their own custom built low side bodies with toolboxes and this truck appears to have one of those, it should be a dark brown paint under the faded red / pink! It is a kind of unusual bed built for a purpose. When I was growing up PG&E always had the biggest and best 4x4 trucks around, the most common was the 2 1/2 ton Ford COE line trucks with Marmon Herrington all wheel drive and they were lifted so far up the original headlight mounts were blocked off and were over 5 feet off the ground! The replacement headlights were installed just above the bumper at about 4 feet off the ground! They had a fleet of W500s in the sixties with a similar type bed. (Look at the PW Bus pictures on this site and see a W500 ex PG&E truck I owned hauling my Gillig PW bus. There was a film we say in school in the early 60s that told the PG&E story and featured shots of the big Fords and FFPWs slogging through mud and snow pulling poles and supplies to construct the hydro power system in the Sierra Nevada mountains where I lived! I am still trying to find a print of this film!