Picture of the Week 10/2/2006

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Picture of the Week 10/2/2006

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Post by armydriver »

What a beautiful early Chevorlet. Thanks for the great photo. I love the embossed side panels. :D
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Hi guys.

Is it me or does this scene look like a model scene?
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The oil drips are realistic enough. Overloon I would guess.
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Appears to be a museum display or a static display of vehicles at some event.
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Another picture from the display at the George C. Marshall museum, Overloon, Netherlands.
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Hi AD
You say what a beautiful (early ) chevrolet, be careful looks may not be correct. The cab has late features - late wipper arms , and wood steering wheel and radiator guard are all late features. The early chevrolet side panels could be a add on as with the early b/o light guard. Another thing it has is a cckw registration number , chevy numbers I believe all started with a 3. However it is a very nice looking truck and it does have the ever original jerry can mounted water bucket :lol: That truck is welcome to stay in my barn anytime :!: and of course all the late features I have said could also have been added on a early truck who knows only the shadow knows :wink:
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Considering the age of all of these old vehicles, late or early add on's are common place. I am not an expert on closed cabs, so did not notice the wiper arms or cab features, however as you said, only the Shadow Knows , but what ever the case it is one nice looking truck. :lol:
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Nice Cheby.....

It has the early loop grill and the add-on BO drive light kit.

It is NOT a Y model though because you can see both sides of the hood hinges. On the CCKWX and the Y model Chevys, the cab portion of the hood hinge runs down the frontof the cowl.
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it might be an early chevy, my 41 is a "Y" model and had the hood hinges as you decsribe, but during the restoration I replaced the firewall with an NOS piece and used the later style hood hinge. As has been said previously, this truck could have had a mix of pieces during it's rebirth, only true way to tell is to check the datplates.............

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Actually, with a Chevy there is no way to tell for sure as far as the serial number and DOD is concerned. No frame numbers was a dumb idea...
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