original Ford bed or not.

Mart said:
Some lrdg info here:
https://www.o5m6.de/western/LRDG.php
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Mart, that link is downright pornographic. Maybe not to everyone, but my two main focus points for any leisure time are absirbing everything I can about WW2 and working on old ford trucks. How I wish there was a TV show where they work on trucks like that. I only get one car channel, motor trend and if I never see another '50s chevy pickup an inch off the pavement with an LS 'motor' I will be a happy man. THIS is a really cool thread!
 
Commonwealth vehicles. I have those Goodyear wheels in 16" Most were the 13" rims. Newc
 
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Thanks Mart for this great Link.
 
Neither the back of the cab nor the bed started from the '40 Ford stamping.

The cowls in some of the photos on that LRDG site appear to be the "drive away cowl" type as would've been used on school busses, fire trucks, etc.
 
There were two styles of the factory cowl. With and without a windshield. I picked up a no-windshield version a few years back and it became the basis of that blue jalopy I posted earlier. The windshield version cowl I had to make when I built my wood wagon. Should be the same for '40-'47.
 

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paetsgone said:
I am looking for 13" wheels with the Ford stud pattern if you have any.
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I have nothing like that. You should post in the Fordbarn for sale/want ads. That's the protocol here. Are they a special balloon tire setup like an 'air wheel' or 'jumbo'? and they have the 5 on 5.5" bolt pattern?
 
There were a bunch of special tires and wheels for the desert troops. The Dodge weapons carriers that I used to collect had an 18" wheel for the desert instead of the normal 16, and then used the 18" tire from the amphibious GMC ducks. I actually found a set while in Mexico at a small junk yard back in the 90's, but they were rusted to death from the salt air. I assume they were never sold because what the hell else used 18" tires !
 
Goodyear Air Wheels; Only in WW2 Commonwealth vehicles in 13". 16" in Civilian style. Those open 'drive away' cabs were used for commercial bodies and fire trucks clear back through '32. Sometimes called 'Orchard trucks'. Newc
 
I saw a pair of those wheels and tyres once, and was told they were "sand tyres", which would make sense, I suppose.
 
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