OHHHH, I see what your talking about now! There are no capscrews or captive nuts nor were there ever any in the back holes in my ’50.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2563346430098611668oTuZRG http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2018188790098611668WxwQiv http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2670542290098611668hBXLdc And I went back and reread page 11, your correct it does say “four capscrews”. When I read it (14 times) I just naturally skipped over it because I knew from my having the doors off and on a couple of times that there wasn’t any screw or nut plate in the back. And I remember now questioning those holes myself at the time.
As far as the “four” in the text, either they did have one back there prior to ’50, i.e., 1947-49 and discontinued it after ‘49 or there is a mistake in the text. Back in the 60’s and 70’s I had a friend that was a technical write for, of all people, the GM training center here in LaGrange, IL. The thing that always baffled me was that Tom had never changed a tire and barely knew where you put the gas, back in those days someone pumped it for you around here. Tom didn’t have a clue as to how a machine worked yet his job was to explain it in the textbooks. He would go out to the line and watch other people doing the job and record what he saw. So ever since then I don’t have 100% confidence in what I read in a technical manual.
This might be another one of those features that helps distinguish what year a truck is when the VIN tag is missing or your thinking about buying a morphodite.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
