Chevrolet CMP C15 cab 11 body 2A1

[Bob Carriere]

Good question David

My cab 11 had adjusting mechanism on both side....... is that original..??.. I really can't tell. The driver's side was bolted directly to the floor pan..... the passenger side had a one inch (2.4mm) board between the seat mechanism and the floor plate.

Will need to check the other cab 12 to see what they have.... if any thing still left.

Early seat frames DID NOT fold at the seat pans..... later on all the seats I have seen have a folding joint...usually rusted tight but easily free with some heat.

Cheers

PS...... just realize that in this picture you can see the roof molding curled up over the back of both seats... will have a better picture tomorrow

[cletrac (RIP)]

I must have 25 seats from the various trucks and I'm pretty sure they all have the adjusters. That's Cab 11, 12, and 13.

[Bob Carriere]

We had loosy weather....snow to rain to freezing rain now for a snap freeze to minus 14C

Was on the tractor for 3 hours with the snowblower.....straining all 46 BHP to move that wet stuff before it froze hard again. Came back in totally soaked through the heavy parka to my underwear. Then the power went out for about 2 hours just before supper time.

Raced back to the barn to get a cable to connect the standby generator.... by the time I had everthing ready ....the power came back on.

Hang in there Jacek will do the pictures tomorrow when it is sunny with a -28C windchill.

Cheers

[Alex van de Wetering]

I don't know if this is of any help as the wood on my windscreen has definately seen better days. But, as far as I can see there are only small holes, not the bigger ones as on Jacek's frame. Hopefully Bob can share some pics of his frame.

Regarding the seat adjuster; David D.; I presume it's just a coincidence that the adjuster is missing on both Jaceks and my passenger seats. As David Pope mentions all seats should have the adjuster and as far as I can tell from the manual the idea was one adjuster per seat.....the funny thing however is that January '41 manual mentions two adjusters for the cab, but only one adjuster spring . The november '43 C8 manual does mention two springs though!

I was also looking at the wooden seat spacers from my C8 today. I know there was some discussion about the originality of wooden spacers under the seat before, but my spacers even have a GM part number stamped on them!

Alex

[Bob Carriere]

....some are out of focus, some need resizing, cropping, text and arrows added.

And I just realized I forgot one measurement...... whcih I will get tomorrow.

Pics to follow.

[Bob Carriere]

As far as I can tell from the rotted wood I have left there were never any holes in the wood prior assembly..... but they do make sense. Predrilling would be strongly advised in hard dry wood.

I have darkened some pictures to better see some of the holes.

More will follow tomorrow.

I must add a word of "Thanks" to Brian Ashbury who sold me the repro wood in the pictures well done. But it has inspired me to do Version 2.01 with small improvements and metal reinforcements. The changes I will make will be documented but they are NOT original. In my mind those improvements would have been initiated by the coach builders IF the model 11 and 12 had stayed inproduction longer.

But then the eventual improvements became cab 13.....

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Cheers

[Bob Carriere]

This time the front roof of a cab 12 which was easier to access. Hole pattern is the same.

Two sets of holes..... NO screws left at all.