Colin, there are a great many vehicles at the museum that I consider it a privilege to work on. There are a lot more 1912 Cadillacs out there than say vehicles like the Lynx scout car or the C15TA. But when you talk about a 1912 military ambulance, that would have to be pretty rare.
Had the director in today looking it over. Got approval for fresh rubber for now. Tubes, tires and flaps are going to run about 2K by my estimate. Thankfully the tires are still in production.
The harder part is going to come in trying to decide on what do you keep as is, and what do you repair or replace. Overall, I think most of the wood is going to be repaired and preserved. Some of it is a little soft, but complete.
For now I'll complete the cleanup. Plenty of mouse droppings and dust to clean out of the box and cab. I'll get the tires done in the next month so that it can be moved, and let the dust settle. I have enough of the tarpaulin to reproduce it quite faithfully, although there are still things to figure out between the end curtains and the cab canopy.
We got the signage from the Elkhorn museum where we got the truck. It has a little history on the initial find and recovery of the truck from Winnipeg some 75 years back. Notable is that they call it an ambulance or troop carrier, so they may have realized the box is not long enough for a stretcher.
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