1939 CMP? on Ebay

[rob love]

Looks like a 41 to me. The air intake louvers indicate it is past the 5000 or 6000 production number. I don't know the exact cutoff, but I know the louvers came in somewhere between 5000 and 10,000.

[Paul Singleton]

The seller with the F-8 cab 11 also has a Humber on Ebay. It is interesting that vehicles like this are still turning up 60 years later!
http://cgi.ebay.ca/WWII-HUMBER-COMMA...QQcmdZViewItem

Paul

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by rob love

Looks like a 41 to me. The air intake louvers indicate it is past the 5000 or 6000 production number. I don't know the exact cutoff, but I know the louvers came in somewhere between 5000 and 10,000.

The louvres may be a bit of a red herring as the rest of the truck looks Cab 11. I've emailed the seller for additional info, such as the build date on the data plates. This might be an early F8 cab 11. Derek.

[cletrac (RIP)]

It's definitely a cab 11 and the louvres indicate a build date of mid 1940 or later. The attached picture shows what the prototypes looked like in 1939.

[Grant Bowker]

I think we have discussed this seller, their identity and the quality of what they sell in past on this forum in the context of a C8A HUP/HUW/ZL variant. My memory is that opinions varied widely from "wonderful" to "looks good from far but is far from good".

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

I think we have discussed this seller, their identity and the quality of what they sell in past on this forum in the context of a C8A HUP/HUW/ZL variant. My memory is that opinions varied widely from "wonderful" to "looks good from far but is far from good".

Evening all, I just received a reply to my question sent earlier today asking the seller to double check the data plate for date of manufacture. Here's his reply:

Dear corporald,
Good afternoon Derek Thank you for your email. We did he best we could in an ice-cold dark barn. Think we remember reading 1939. It seems to us that the differences are academic due to the rarity of any variety of these early WWII trucks. Please feel fee to email us again if we can assist in your bidding. Cheers Walt

[cletrac (RIP)]

The only way to tell the date on a cab 11 Ford is to look at the serial number that's stamped into the frame under the passenger side door. A 1G prefix is 1940 production and 2G is 1941. They didn't have a data plate with the date on the early trucks as far as I can tell. I wonder where he found the 1939? The cab 12s had the date on a data plate.

[cletrac (RIP)]

I looked at his other items on ebay and it's interesting to note that most of them don't get a single bid.
He says the Humber is in the final stages of restoration but it doesn't look like he's started on it yet. I guess maybe all my acquisitions are in the final stages of restoration too if I use his standards.