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Old Truck
Jun 3, 2020 02:54:59 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
I think it's WWII vintage and definitely American, or Canadian. Hopefully someone can enlighten me.
Jun 3, 2020 03:48:10 #
Would like to see more of it. Especially the outside.
Jun 3, 2020 06:50:27 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
flathead27ford wrote:
Would like to see more of it. Especially the outside.
In fact the old truck is still in running order and is used as a water tender for fire fighting on a remote property.
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Jun 3, 2020 08:10:41 #
John Sh wrote:
I think it's WWII vintage and definitely American, or Canadian. Hopefully someone can enlighten me.
Search military water truck 1940's think you will find it there.
Jun 3, 2020 10:07:56 #
Jun 3, 2020 10:08:08 #
The last photo appears to show it with a wildland fire truck. Best guess, then as now rural fire departments bought and used Military surplus - this as a tanker.
Jun 3, 2020 21:12:45 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
quixdraw wrote:
The last photo appears to show it with a wildland fire truck. Best guess, then as now rural fire departments bought and used Military surplus - this as a tanker.
This reveals all.
There are more operational old trucks on the property. I will create another post for them.
Jun 4, 2020 05:29:23 #
At last, it’s a GMC, long since gone but I think it became Chev trucks. General Motors Corporation.
I don’t think GMC trucks were called that much after the war?? Maybe wrong??
I don’t think GMC trucks were called that much after the war?? Maybe wrong??
Jun 4, 2020 05:48:02 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
I was in Thailand with the RAAF during 1963. The USAF had GMC trucks there at that time.
Jun 4, 2020 07:02:54 #
GMC is still alive and well. Never left and Chevrolet trucks coexist as well. There was talk of merging the two into one truck brand during the eighties, but it never happened.
Jun 4, 2020 08:44:37 #
John Sh wrote:
I think it's WWII vintage and definitely American, or Canadian. Hopefully someone can enlighten me.
Looks to be of the 1936-38 variety....2nd WW water tanker/ X-military and probably used by some local Fire Dept. for brush fires and extra water on a house fire perhaps....never have enough water when those fires get going and take a farm house quickly otherwise.
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Jun 4, 2020 09:30:07 #
By modern standards, a ride as smooth as silk? 🙂
Jun 4, 2020 13:49:31 #
Bunko.T wrote:
At last, it’s a GMC, long since gone but I think it became Chev trucks. General Motors Corporation.
I don’t think GMC trucks were called that much after the war?? Maybe wrong??
I don’t think GMC trucks were called that much after the war?? Maybe wrong??
GMC is alive and well. Check the web at ww.gmc.com. I owned one in the late 1970's.
I am not sure they are significantly different from the corresponding Chevrolet models though.
Jun 5, 2020 21:21:53 #
I was told by a Chevy GMC dealer that GMC and Chevrolet come off the same assembly line. That was in the early 80's. I asked what the difference was, to which he replied, the paint colors, the emblems and trim. Then I asked what differences in the engines. His answer, GMC paints them black and Chevy paints them red. Guess that was a few years ago, seems like yesterday.
Jun 12, 2020 10:16:13 #
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