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Old 24-11-08, 10:31
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Cliff, I found the front half of one of those .. in a wrecking yard at Laurel Hill , near Batlow in NSW. The yard owner let me grab the Aust. brass ID plate from the cab. The cab had a crude pram top like folding bow set up.. it was very crude how they ( GMH ) cut the cabs down.. I believe that they were hard top cabs cut down. Silly me.. I gave the I.D. plate to somebody . My pic of it appeared in a W & T article years ago ..

Mike
Yes these Airborne GMC's were cut down full cabs and the rear deck also split in half as did the chassis behind the cab. One truck disassembled made up two C47 plane loads. This is one vehicle I am very interested in and I'd love to see a real one one day.

The photo below is of a 1/35 scale model I made at one stage.
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