YelloW M37's

[motto]

Maybe Yellow Truck and Coach are still out there somewhere.

The ex military vehicle here in Oz that I have noted as always being yellow and not built that way is the Cletrac 7 ton High Speed Tractor M2. Everybody that had one seems to have painted it that colour. Perhaps they are trying to make them look like Catapillars. Even a respected HMV restorer here painted his yellow when he renovated it. Go figure!

David

[Frank v R]

Hi Guys , for the most part all the Cdn M-37's that I have seen for sale have been OD , some with camo out west , you may be looking at US trucks that are ex air force, also US civil defense were orange or yellow, Levy's had 200 in the yard in the late 60's,yellow with blue fenders, do not assume that every truck you see with a hard top is a Cdn one, Canada did also have yellow RCAF vehicles , I have a CCKW weather truck that is ex RCAF that is still yellow, at a certain point they started painting them blue and the M-43's were white with the red cross, there was a yellow M-37 on ebay in Vermont and appeared to be a US truck set up for cold weather with the hardtop, the US hardtop has a small oval rear window and Cdn trucks have a large rectangular window,

[Matthew Reid]

These are all CDN M37's I have seen for sale here in Canada

I have seen loads of them painted yellow and other former CDN mil vehicles painted yellow mostly P/U trucks and the likes. Mostly stuff of 1950's /1960's vintage.

Were Canadian flight line M37's painted yellow ?
Were Canadian soft skin flight line vehicles painted yellow at all ?

M

[David Dunlop]

I have only ever seen a handful of yellow M37's and civvies pickups out this way painted yellow. All were ex-airfield vehicles. Some had a matt black hood and all had the large Canadian Forces decal on the doors. The Field Ambulance at CFB Portage was white.

Most all other M-Series Dodges were camo except for a huge lot sold out of Shilo many years ago that were all OD green. That lot had been put in long term emergency storage (i.e. mothballed).

David

[chris vickery]

Here is a theory, just an observation.
Are we talking yellow, like real yellow or a mustard colour?
The reason that I ask is that I have seen cmp trucks and the odd jeep that you would swear were painted yellow. Old school enamel OD paint had a bad tendency to fade out really quickly losing the green pigment. Years of sun and acid rain does a number on any truck that has spent its whole life outdoors. Just an idea.

[super dave]

This M43 is Air force.

[Ewen B]

I also have been searching M37 type vehicles for the last little while and only have come across yellow vehicles in the USA. They sold cheap vehicles to fire departments, forestry service for wildland fire fighting, and to communities for civil Defence. I know a few Canadian trucks were purchased by fire departments and went through the same conversion, then of course Airport and Base fire departments may have had a few. I am wondering if Range Control had a few yellow trucks laying around. There are a few US web sites that even have documentation from companies who converted the 24V trucks to 12 V so that civilian lights, siren and radio systems could be added.

good luck with your searches...sorry I can't help.
Ewen