Knock me down with a feather, M43 under my nose

[Jon Skagfeld]

Trying to remember....was the M43 the ambulance version with rear barn doors?

[Bob Carriere]

Ambulance had barn doors and the step to get in folded inside as a seat if I remember correctly..

The radio had a single wide central door and the step ladder was tied to the inside of the door.

Bad sign Jon when you can't remember things..... been looking for hours for my RH BSF 5/8 die to clean up some nuts and can't find it.....found two sets of 5/8 LH BSF but for the love of God can't find the RH ......

Cheers

[rob love]

Interesting thing about the signal van is that the framework of the van is actually that of the ambulance, with two extra of the same ambulance door pillars added to narrow the double door area into a single door. The side outer skin and inner wall panels are also slightly different for the windows. The vans were X152 in the US, so very very limited production, and from the few photos I have seen had the double doors of the ambulance. So that makes the M152 a fairly unique Cdn M37 vehicle.

[Frank v R]

Hi Robin , take a look on Kijiji,
regards Frank

[Dparker]

Don't suppose its got a nice winch ?

[Marc Montgomery]

If it's visible from the road.. the scrappers will find it.. they are very diligent and know how to pressure people into letting do the favour of getting rid of it, before "government environment people" order owner to deal with it..

fewer and fewer abandoned vehicles...and fewer and fewer interesting old junk yards to visit too ! All of the old yards I knew of 20 years ago.. with lots of interesting stuff..are all gone..

[Robin Craig]

Just to update this thread a bit.

It was very strange how when I posted about it suddenly the add popped up on Kijiji as pointed out by Frank V R.

It was at that point that I decided to take things underground and go quiet as in my opinion the vendor was a lurker on here. That seems to have been proven correct.

A number of us locally had made contact and the "owner" eventually sold it to a friend of mine and his Dad after they made a trip out here to look at the sad vehicle, all the rest of the locals including myself having stood aside. The truck has some value but no way near what the owner had imagined.

So, today was set as the target recovery day.

Yesterday I took a big tractor out there and packed down the snow and made a nice road in that we could get to with a 2wd pick up as we wanted to take some tools in to liberate the vehicle.

As an import Brit I love working outside in winter especially when doing tasks like this because of how the snow works and packs down.

Rob had to liberate each corner from the ice in turn with a trolley jack.

R