<< Do you ever get hassled by police/CHP officers who want to verify that
there's a club meeting or show at one end of your trip?
I live in Tennessee, which I suspect is more laid back on these things than
California, but I have never been stopped by police for any reason while
driving an HMV. I have pulled up to license check road blocks & they just
wave me on through (helps to wear OD t-shirt while driving around!!). Those
that I encounter while eating/buying fuel etc, either ignore truck or ask
interested questions, ie ever get stuck, how much one of those cost, where
you keep that thing etc.
I could not find manufacturing dates on the nameplates of the trucks I
bid on, but I'm under the impression that the M35-series trucks were
all made around 1968-1972.
M35 series go from 50-51 on up to mid 70's, M35A2 sub-series go about 1967 to
mid-70's.
The trucks I bid on have much newer engines
(1980 and 1988), so I suspect that they had engine replacements. Is
there any way to obtain evidence of the age of the truck so they don't
just use the date stamped on the engine?
My REO built truck has the serial number and mfr date stamped in the frame
rail behind right front tire.
Studebaker built truck have serial number stamped in frame rail also, but I
don't remember on which side of front...if you need I can look at mine when I
get home tonight.
Studebaker-Packard also stamped in frame rail.
Don't know about White...
Kaiser-Jeep and General Products Div. and AM General more challenging....
One way to educated guess the date is to crawl under truck; on the
differential housing on each axle, and on the transfer case housing, and on
the transmission housing are name/id plates that have dates on them, either
in box marked "date" or as part of another number....
If several of these are close to the same (month,year) you can pretty much
bet that is year truck built.
A lot of cargo beds have name plate welded on left front corner, and most
wheels (not tires) have a date marked in them, although on the older (50's)
they are sometimes only visible from the inside.
I wouldn't use any of the above alone to date truck (as all can be changed),
rather a concensus.
Also, one of the numbers in the contract number on dash is year contract was
let to build truck, not year actually built. But obviously truck couldn't
have been built before contract date.
Ex-Air Force trucks are easy, as year built is part of registration number.
On early M35 series trucks the headlight bulbs mount to a panel, which in
turn is mounted by rubber dampners to another panel on front of truck, later
models dispensed with this first panel...don't know when this change occured,
never really thought about it before, but could probably figure it out by
looking at my trucks if you like.
Hope this helps, and good luck,
David Doyle
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