To continue from my
welcome thread.
I got in to Chevrolet trucks, specially CMP's via two sources.
Tamiya's model kit of the Quad gun tractor and the Long Range Dessert Group Canadian AK Chevrolet.
The Second source was one of my dad friends bought a CMP C60L cab 13, (3tonner) a truck type that served with the commonwealth force during the war and then subsequently by the Danish army (and many other) from the early post war years up to the seventies and sold out in the late eighties.
But with this Chevrolet we went to shows in locally but also to the big military vehicles shows in Uk, Normandy etc. which then really opened my eyes for these vehicles, and In all I must have ridden a couple of 1000 miles in that truck as a child.
The Danish army never used the early style Gun tractors like the Tamiya kit, cab 12, so I had to look aboard for one, I ended up finding a restoration project in Norway (yellow and red one), then a couple years later another, this time restored, came up for sale also in Norway so bought that as well and sold the other on.
I have since then been working on adding missing details, working together with other owners a cross the world.
These gun tractors where designed for towing a 25pdr field artillery gun, an ammunition limber trailer and carrying the gun crew.
They where extensively used in all theaters of the WW2 by the commonwealth troops.
It is based on the CMP mechanicals, 216cui engine (with a 6 blade fan for extra cooling doing heavy towing and winching), four speed transmission, transfer box for 4x4 with high and low, and power takeoff for winch.
The CMP truck line, Ford and Chevrolet, was a brilliant idea which encompassed a number of different sizes, body configurations and chassis lengths. The largest 6x6 Chevrolets where fitted with the GMC 270 cui.
Cheers
