From: Joe Garrett [mailto:j.garrett@gte.net]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 8:05 AM
To: Jim Wiehe; Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: RE: [MV] Articulated M54?
That was true through the fifties. When Kaiser started making the trucks
(after they bought out Studebaker and Packard, about 1962) they started
putting all the headlights in the high position.
The hardware for the headlight panels is reversible and you can change yours
from high to low and vice versa very easily. My experience is that when you
see low mounted headlights it is a pre-1962 truck. Because of the winch
thing, the reverse is NOT true. High headlights can mean anything from
ex-winch to "once disassembled and put back upside down" to post-1962 truck.
Joe Garrett
cell 425-344-1402
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wiehe [mailto:j.wiehe@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 7:46 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List; Joe Garrett
Subject: Re: [MV] Articulated M54?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@gte.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 22:16
Subject: Re: [MV] Articulated M54?
< It has the headlights mounted low, too, which indicates an early
production truck.>
I thought that having the headlights mounted low indicates that the truck
does not have
a winch, while the high mounted headlights would be used with vehicles with
a winch ?
This is one way to tell if your truck had a winch and it was removed or
didn't and had
it added later on.
Jim Wiehe , VA3JHW
mail to : j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
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