Truck 11/4 ton Chev 1976

[Wpns 421]

Hi guys Just saved a Chev 5/4 from the scrap yard and seeing that it is in good condition we will be restoring the truck. From the paperwork we found it belonged to 1 Canadian Field Hospital and was last used on 7 Feb 1993. The truck had the Ambulance box removed to be installed on the LSVW.
Does anyone have a picture of the 5/4 Ambulance. WE have a CUCV ambulance and we know what they look like but the regular fForce 5/4 were different than the CUCV. Thanks

[Dano McLaren]

I have one at home (a photo that is), but am on the road until May 14th. If you don't get one by then I can help you out.

[Wpns 421]

thanksphoto thanks I will wait. We will be in France till the 19th May we are going too the Normandy Coast
Gilles

[maple_leaf_eh]

Lucky for you the CF was cheap with its commercial pattern vehicles. With a few exceptions, the standard GM/Chev parts catalogue will give you sll that you need.

I remember the interior was medium brown with brown vinyl seats and black floor mats. The chrome parts were there, just sandblasted and painted over. The SMP light switch was there, and the dome and dash lights were wired in, along with the usual headlights and BO ones.

There was a posting a few weeks ago from another MLU regular who found a 5/4 CP box without the truck underneath. You might be able to make a deal.

[rob love]

I have a van body on my 5/4 ton. I have seen an ambulance body on the loose but it has disappeared from the farmyard it was in. In fact, I was intently looking for it when I met up with a VIA train. But thats another story.

There were a lot of changes over the 5/4 ton's long service life. The factory brown mats were stripped out, floors painted in a special paint, and thin black rubber mats put in. Seats also changed from the two buckets over to a single bench seat as required. The SMP light switch Terry talked about did not control all the lights: The commercial light switch remained on the dash and controlled the interior lights under the dash. No dome lights on 5/4 tons.

Nice thing about the 5/4 ton is that body parts are still super cheap. Chevy made millions of this type truck with great interchangeability over a lot of years. The aftermarket suppliers are even remaking the plastic grills and the doeskin dashes.

[Ed Storey]

From 1981.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

Lucky for you the CF was cheap with its commercial pattern vehicles. With a few exceptions, the standard GM/Chev parts catalogue will give you sll that you need.

I remember the interior was medium brown with brown vinyl seats and black floor mats. The chrome parts were there, just sandblasted and painted over. The SMP light switch was there, and the dome and dash lights were wired in, along with the usual headlights and BO ones.

There was a posting a few weeks ago from another MLU regular who found a 5/4 CP box without the truck underneath. You might be able to make a deal.

...and the pioneer tools were behind the bench seat, strapped in with webbing through footman loops.

[rob love]

Ed's photo is of one before we put on the folding red cross covers. Seems to me we were installing those around 83 to 85 time period, but I can't say for certain. Not much red on the cross of that 5/4 ton.