My oddball CV10516 came to me secondhand from a fellow who got it surplus from the Navy. It is an odd truck having a 700R4 and 24 volt inverter. The door has the numbers "94-33916" on it, can this be decoded to tell me where the truck was used like on my M51A2? Curious this same number is also the registration number.
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CV10516 CUCV Door Number / Reg Number Decoding?
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Is this a K5 type CUCV? That seems to me to be a standard issue GM model number for the platform. GM has most-always used a 5 digit model number for their internal cataloging system. Each body, chassis, drive, and GVW series had a specific number not unlike a VIN which was a US standardized decodable sequential serial number. View attachment 1991-Chevrolet-Blazer.pdf
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The boys might correct me, but it sounds to me like it's a government purchase civvy K5 Blazer instead of a CUCV and they added the converter since there's only the single voltage electrical system.
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94-33916 is correct for that weight of truck in Navy reg numbers. Oddly, they assigned it a CUCV NSN. SInce 86 was the last big production year with a small number of 87 trucks produced, yes it's a civy truck. The V in the VIN number denotes this. None the less, a super cool truck.