Re: My daily driver

Posted by Janicholson on December 24, 2016 at 10:08:38 from (97.112.61.225):

In Reply to: Re: My daily driver posted by coshoo on December 23, 2016 at 22:12:04:

The chassis is CJ3B The cab is from a 1949 IH K series 1.5 ton straight truck. History: As told by the son of one of the people in the story.
Missoula Montana 1948, there was an implement dealer that had a customer base making loose hay in stacks. They used dump rakes to gather, and front end loaders (farmhand etc.)to stack it. The loaders used 10 foot wide fork tined "buckets" and trip latch. The Owner decided to make faster, bigger machines for the purpose. He purchased 5 IH 1.5 ton X 150" WB straight trucks to modify. Harvester would not sell the trucks without cabs because they could not transport them. So the trucks were modified by removing the cabs, Turning the differential upside down, re-arranging the steering brakes and clutch to work going backwards. The Lift was frame mounted and extended outside of the wheel base pointing backwards. A 16' wide fork setup was attached with trip system. Evidently the market was saturated as the total production was 5.
6 years went by.
The next business on the street was a body shop. The Owner of that shop and the implement dealer were friends and often shared breakfast and coffee. The body shop guy had been looking at the 5 cabs sitting on blocks for all those years figuring how to use them. One day he broached the subject by suggesting they could make a weatherproof vehicle out of them by putting a cab on a Jeep. Good Idea. The duo Arranged that they would buy the Jeep 50/50 and the cab would be supplied free and labor supplied free. They purchased a new 57 CJ3B Willis, and put the cab on it. It was sold for about 2X the jeep original price as it was seen. Good to go, they did it again and the next was sold part way through construction. The third was sold before work started. They looked at each other and decided they each needed one of them, so the remaining two were kept. Mine was given, by the body shop owner, to his son. The one belonging to the implement dealer was (best I recall being said) sold to a hunting/guide/tourist camp in Redlodge MT. One was wrecked in and accident. One was left to rust after a failed engine. And one was rolled down a mountainside. I modified mine by using a Ford Ranger gas tank under a hatch in the "bed" (better than a 6 gallon tank under the drivers seat), and rack and pinion steering from a 1981 Toyota Tercell. It is immediately surrounded by interested people when in a parking lot. Jim

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