How To: Ford CMP "Blitz" miscellany

[Jacques Reed]

Thanks Hanno,

Remember seeing that link. A mate of mine has a beautifully restored 1938 civilian Ford stake side truck and it's body sits on wooden sills so it must have been common body mounting practice.

Don't think steel pads with insertion rubber underneath is a period correct body mounting procedure but hopefully someone in Australia can shed some light on it and the recessed channel.

Cheers,

[hrpearce]

Picture under my body.

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the photo looks like the sills are only about 1" thick which is the same size that my mates Ford stake side body sits on.

Now if I can only find why someone went to the trouble to recess those channels into the transverse cross members I would be really happy. If not original, recessing them seems like a lot of work for no apparent reason.

Bet as sure as I would cut out those channels on mine and weld my other channels on top of those cross members someone would find that there was a wartime modification to lower the floor, or the center of gravity, or some other reason.

Think I'll wait and won't do anything too hasty, not that I do it the best of times!

Cheers,