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What a great job you are doing. Makes me want to go out back and kick mine. :( The '39/40 is all wood framed inside and the body panels are nailed to it rather than riveted or screwed. Also, being as the back panel was gone all those years it sat in the forest, there isn't a lot left to make...
zout, thank you for documenting this project. You are lucky your interior is in such good shape. Mine was exposed to a hostile environment with the back open. Mine was a digger truck. It carried piping and an auger unit that was hung A-frame style off the rear and driven by a PTO. They used it...
I plan to moisten it so it doesn't get airborn and suck it into a shopvac with plastic liner. from there it will go into a couple 5 gal buckets. I will seal and label them for proper disposal later.
be cautious with that grey sound padding, mine looks like asbestos and it is everywhere.
I will be happy to get you some close ups of anything you want.
Sorry vultures, I got plans for this and my others, but ya never know what tomorrow will bring. ;)
EDIT: Data plate sez K-18-C
Delivery date to the Signal Corp is 1940, but I think it may be a '39 cab.
I would like to try to restore it as rare as they are. I saved this one from the...
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