1942 Wc 25 radio command car

[David DeWeese]

Hi,
Picked up one of these a couple of weeks ago. Actually it is two WC25's about 200 miles apart from each other waiting for someone to come along and put them back together.
Knew about the WC25 with the lengthened chassis and cut sheetmetal for a few years now here in Texas, and then the missing rear sheetmetal section finally came along, and .......

Thanks, David

[Bob Carriere]

....and I love those Texas moth holes about the rear fender well.....

Bob

[David DeWeese]

Hi Bob,
Haven't counted the bullet holes yet, but guess there is well over twenty.
Would have probably been more, but someone finally hit the star......
Thanks, David

[Bob Carriere]

Being from Texas......The shooter hit the star first..... but in semi auto he pulled too hard on the trigger and drifted his grouping to the right..... hahaha

It will give you a chance to practice welding hole shut !!!!

Bob

[gordon]

Bullet holes aren't actually that bad to fix. When i did the WC36 body there were a hundred holes in it, but there were also a couple of shotgun blasts which caused a lot more work.

Yep, it was from texas, up at Booker in the panhandle - how did you know?

Gordon

[David DeWeese]

Hi Gordon,
Bought another 1/2 ton command car a few years ago from a nice old gentleman in Gruver, Texas, north of Amarillo.
He told me that in the '40's an Oliver tractor dealer in Amarillo bought a train load of 1/2 ton command cars and sold them to the public.

He said the local farmers bought two of them each for $70 a piece, and used one truck for farm use and the other one for parts....
Almost all you find today in the Texas panhandle are cut 1/2 ton command cars, probably most of them from that load...
Thanks, David