From: Steve & Jeannie Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 04:48:11 PDT
Congratulations !
They are a nice truck. You do have some work to do, but it looks
like you have a solid truck to start with.
The last picture of the crane is that of a Schield-Bantam
http://www.cckw.org/weare_2004117.jpg is what my open cab looks like.
If you have technical questions, you can get expert help on the cckw
site: www.cckw.org
Good Luck
Steve AKA Dr Deuce(s) [8 of them]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bever" <goin_myway@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:17 AM
Subject: [MV] Bought Open Cab CCKW after reading posting from list member.
> Hi List, I just want to thank one of our list members
> Tom Woodburn MVPA 16138. Back on 24 March some of you
> may recal Tom posted a message regarding an older
> Gentleman who had some WWII era trucks that had been
> sitting around on his farm for some 20 odd years and
> was wanting to get them sold off or scrap them out.
> Tom noted that he had one CCKW with a crane on it, 3
> Internationals, and a 52 REO. I was pretty busy at
> the time with work but managed to call the guy up
> about a week later. Turned out he had already
> scrapped two of the 2.5 ton internationals but still
> had the CCKW with crane, the last remaining 2.5 ton
> international, and the 52 REO. Upon further discussion
> with him on the phone he advised that he also had
> another CCKW that was in pretty decent shape that he
> had decided he would sell it as well. So I set up to
> drive to his place (about 120 miles from my place) to
> check out what he had. I went to his place on a
> Sunday and ended up buying the open cab CCKW that you
> can see in my yahoo photo ablum buy going to this
> site:
>
> http://photos.yahoo.com/goin_myway
>
> open the album with the red CCKW on it and scroll down
> to the bottom of the album. I have 4 photos of it
> posted. It turned out that he had bought it from a
> local fire department 6 years ago drove it to his farm
> and parked it in a barn were it had remained ever
> since. I ended up buying it along with an original
> type WWII bed and a winch for mounting on the front. I
> have not had a chance to do anything with the truck
> yet but I know the engine is free and I believe I will
> have it running and driving in no time. I also
> committed to buying the remaining CCKW and the
> International. I just hated to see these trucks end up
> being sent to the scrapper. Unfortunitly I could not
> save the other two International dueces. I looked at
> the 52 REO Gasser which at one time had a LeRoy
> Compressor on it but I could not swing getting it. I
> got ahold of a guy that probably would have bought it
> but he was too late getting ahold of the owner and it
> has already been cut up for scrap. Anyhow I wanted to
> thank list memeber Tom Woodburn for passing along the
> info. It got me to the open cab CCKW of which I am
> really happy to get. It also saved at least for parts
> or possible restoration the CCKW and the
> International. I have not really seen very many
> International duces nor have I seen any CCKW open
> cabs. Hope you enjoyed this story. There is still
> MV's out there in the hills. Forgot to menchin these
> trucks were in southern Indiana. I am also trying to
> figure out how to post the sites for list members to
> click on to see a photo of my truck. So try this site
> and see if it works. thanks
> Dan Bever
> MVPA 18507
>
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/goin_myway/detail?.dir=/2b41&.dnm=6759.jpg&.src=ph
>
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