Blitz Chassis and Truck info wanted

[Keith Webb]

It depends whether yours is a No8 or 9. They both have wooden floorboards in the rear but the No9 does have provision for a spare on the right side, and it also has a ramp carried on the outside of the vehicle. The No8 is considerably narrower inside due to the lockers on both sides of the body and therefore only has a single door on the back as opposed to the two doors on the No9, which also has a step in the roof.

Feel free to post some pics of yours here.

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

I am interested in this no provision for a spare. Mike Cecil in his AMEP series states that the rear floor is timber planks and there is no spare tyre mount .I wrote to Mike in 1992 and queried that statement as I have what appears to be a spare tyre mount welded in the rear compartment from new and mine has a steel floor, I didn't get a reply and as Mike is a good researcher I wondered are there early and late bodies? I can't find a Holden body number or where there has been one but there is a little copper/lead tag about 1 inch by 1/4 inch soldered under the lower right of the rear door opening.
Imagine trying to lift a CMP 20 inch wheel up on to the roof, I think something or somebody would have got broken but I guess when you are in the bush you just had to get on with it.
My rear body section is Chev as it turns out.

Cheers Ken