Advice needed by potential CMP owner!

[Rob MacDonald]

I am strongly tempted to buy Terry’s CMP (http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=13336) but I have some questions before I take the plunge.

I have done several restorations (Harley WLC, Triumph TRW, Ford Model A, 1934 Plymouth PF) and I’m well aware of the problem that ‘parts availability’ can be.

I’m interested in this truck as an occasional ‘driver’ rather than a ‘show’ truck, and so some ‘faults’ (wrong cargo box, fuel tanks,) don’t bother me but there are others that do.

Here are the parts that I’m concerned about finding:

-Transfer shift lever (the current one looks like a piece of bar stock and might work fine, but looks like hell)
-Door data plates (although on this truck they seem to have been mounted on the dash)
-‘Consumable’ parts (those that are subject to replacement due to unavoidable wear-and-tear) such as brake and steering parts.

I don’t want to be afraid to drive this old girl for fear that I’m wearing out irreplaceable items.

I’d appreciate any insight or advice from the membership.