Truck information
Hi Keith,
You have me wondering what year my truck was produced now that you point out so many items leading to an earlier production truck.You are right about the windshield possibly being changed as they are sure to break while in service and are so easy to slide out and slide a new one in from a parts truck so the date on the glass isn't very reliable and with the original data plates gone is next to impossible to find a true date of manufacture for my CMP other than what you have noticed about the truck's early parts to give it a rough date of manufacture.I do not know CMP's that well to know the different parts used during Ford's time periods of assembly.Thanks for the information as I have a blank set of 3 data plates for my truck I got off of Alan Growse and I have to make sure I have all of the proper information before I start to stamp it on the blank plates.So your knowledge of the parts lead you to believe it is a 1942 production CMP or is there something I should be looking at to give me a definite time line of manufacture.I couldn't find a tag on the radiator with a date on it so that is the only other part I can think of that would be dated.
I started stripping the truck down this spring and managed to take it completely apart so I could have the frame sanedblasted and start to reassemble it and then I went to the Military Vehicle Preservation Association's annual convention in Topeka,Kansas this year with Rob Love and went crazy buying parts for my 1943 Ford GPW jeep and wound up being sidetracked from the CMP to the jeep so it sits in the yard in a pile of parts until I reassemble the jeep.I hope to have the frame of the CMP sandblasted next summer so I can start putting the truck back together.I have almost all the pieces for a complete restoration except the hand crank guide on the bumper,a left gas tank and brackets,a horn button,side curtain bag,large shifter knob and a small blackout socket.
Thanks for your help and please let me know if you have any other information that will help me identify the date of manufacture of my CMP.
Regards,Derk.
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