From: Dan Bever (goin_myway@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 07:58:14 PDT
Steve, Your photo of the Crane CCKW inspired me to
call up the guy who has the one that I am buying and
advise him to not remove the crane as I decided to try
and get the whole thing. I had told him last week
that I would just take the truck and to go ahead and
cut the crane off. He is usually pretty quick with
the torch but fortunitly we have had cold and rainy
weather over the last week and he had decided to wait
before firing up his torch. I had made my decision to
try and save the whole truck last night and then
couldn't sleep half the night worring that he might
have already cut the crane off. But an early call this
morning confirmed that he had not. So I am going to
try and get the whole unit. It might be something that
I end up not restoring but figure if I don't someone
else might get the chance. I know that this one is
missing the motor in the crane and only the section of
the crane arm that you see in the photo is left.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/goin_myway/detail?.dir=2b41&.dnm=a80a.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/goin_myway/detail?.dir=2b41&.dnm=c762.jpg&.src=ph
In your research on this type of unit would you know
if there are anymore that have survived in the US? Do
any other MVPA members have a setup like this? Your is
an open cab and I note that this one is a closed cab.
Would this have been made special for the military?
thanks
Dan Bever
MVPA 18507
--- Steve & Jeannie Keith <cckw@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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