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30-01-09, 08:10
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I.D. required Chev ?
Came across this old girl today
Could anyone identify the model ?  I do not know anything about American ww2 vehicles What would you expect to pay for this vehicle in this condition ?
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Have a good one  Andrew Custodian of the "Rare and Rusty" 
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30-01-09, 08:52
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A few hundred
Pounds, Dollars, whatever, if it had the original drivetrain.
Because it has originally been the Signals Van or Panel Van version you don't even have a usable cab to start with. It really has value only to another Chev owner who wants parts.
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30-01-09, 08:59
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Panel Van
I agree that is is a cut-down Panel Van with the flat front. These are from my site:
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...tarychevs.html
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30-01-09, 10:10
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This is what a K51 Chev panelvan/radio truck should look like. Scrap value is all your find is worth.
One photo is from the AWM and shows Australian Forces using it in the Pacific and the other is a US Army Signal Corp. photo showing vehicles ready to be shipped overseas from the US.
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Cheers Cliff Hutchings aka MrRoo S.I.R. "and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night" MrRoo says "TRUCKS ROOLE"
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30-01-09, 10:53
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Thanks for the replies
What size engines did they they run ? 216,235 ,etc. ? If anyone is interested in it I can try and contact it's owner and see if he wants to part with it 
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Have a good one Andrew Custodian of the "Rare and Rusty"
Last edited by aj.lec; 30-01-09 at 11:01.
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30-01-09, 13:57
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Splash lubricated 235 I think.
Not a great engine, compared to the similarly sized 270 in the GMC.
There are a few parts that were unique to the Chev, such as running boards, engine side panels, floor panel, and I think some slight firewall stuff, otherwise much the same as GMC. From memory Chevrolet made one largish batch of panel vans, the majority of which went to a specialist sub-contractor to get turned into signal corps trucks, leaving the un-modified panel vans as much rarer than the signals units.  If you see it again have a look for the spare wheel mount bolted to the side of the chassis behind the drivers door. A panel van came with a full cast steel spare wheel mount. Conversions to signals van usually involved torching them off level with the running board to make way for the side equipment boxes. If your find has a stub of a spare wheel mount, or marks where one was torched, then it is probably the K-51 signals van.
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Gordon, in Scotland Last edited by gordon; 30-01-09 at 14:00. Reason: adding Erik's panel van image
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30-01-09, 15:29
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aj.lec's Chev looks too wide across the floor level of the cab to be a K-51 and/or panelvan. I have a vague recollection of a Bus type body that was built up wide across the floor like that.
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30-01-09, 22:53
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A bus variant might explain the window holes on the curve of the back of the cab where they have rolled it around to form the back of the cab
These looked original as they were pressed into the metal work with the seal lip
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Have a good one Andrew Custodian of the "Rare and Rusty"
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30-01-09, 22:58
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Engine
Engines were 216..the 235 was a rareish heavy truck unit introduced in 1941. From known serials, it appears that Flint, MI and Norwood, OH plants were heavily involved with the asembly of the military-front panels.
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