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If/when you remove that hard cab the rear wall will no longer be a problem. But you will then need a windshiled frame (inner & outter)& mounting hardware. The bed on there as you can imagine is not OEM for the WC63. What I should have mentioned with my WC, is that during the course of it's...
If you look at the positioning of the pedals you'll notice that trying to graft another cab onto that frame, like an M37 cab for example, would be a major undertaking. Those trucks (WWII trucks in general) weren't much fun for long distance driving with their non adjustable seats and cramped...
My WC51 was painted the same color and had an identical hard cab grafted onto it's original open cab which certainly saved it from the elements. My truck was a European return brought "home" some time in the 1970s. Think it was imported by Seaco from Switzerland...
Yes that is (almost) exactly what it was. In 1943 the Military needed more 1.5 ton trucks and ordered/asked Dodge to produce one. They took their 3/4 ton WC51/WC52 weapons carrier, lengthend the frame added an extra axle and a two speed transfercase. The cab on that truck is identical to the one...
It is a WWII Dodge WC62 (WC63s had a winch) 1.5 ton truck (Weapons carrier). They were built from 1943 to 1945 with a production total of less then 50k (think it was around 43,ooo units?) trucks. One of those was my first MV...
Matt
Tire size is 9:00X16 on 5 lug rims. Engine...