Oh no!!!!!!!!! That's just crazy. Jim, why did you force him to chop the truck? Does he have any of the odd parts for it? Trip to Montana?
He doesn't have any other parts, stripped at the fire dept. MACCUS was going to get the cab and bring it, we didn't know it was a M48, but the guy had already cut it and wanted the whole section gone as one piece and wouldn't send it any other way (wouldn't even let us pull the 2 front cab bolts to remove the cab), so Gene told him it wouldn't fit on the trailer and that ended that route.
reframe it and call it good
If it was reframed with a different frame-S/N may as well build a replica.
Short wheel base guys..................not easy to put another frame under the cab.
The M48 is the long wheelbase deuce tractor (same WB as M35).
Hmmm...I wonder if you...or Maccus had any choice words to say to the feller....that should not be posted here of course.
I saw the plate and didn't tell gene until the guy left for obvious reasons.
The guy was a nice enough guy but it really could have been Wreckerman's western twin. We stripped everything down after he left, no rust ALL bolts EASILY unscrewed. But EVERY one he did in MT was cut with a torch and now I have about 18 to drill and easy out.
Overall I am very happy with the sheetmetal. I am only missing a gasser fuel tank and the M48 will have all new rust free GASSER sheetmetal.
Oh well, Guess I still have the only one. What are the odds??????
