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my 36 truck has a drab green dash and seat lower metal, should these be painted the same as body?
Also anybody know where I can get a spare tire well for passenger fender and the parts fot eh tire holder?

The dash on your truck was painted brown color (check with a 36 truck owner it maybe a semi-metalic??) The seat metal riser panel frame was black enamel body color ended at the rocker panels and edges of door frame and posts.

my seat riser panels are that drab green, original, never painted...I wonder if this might have been an Army truck years ago..as the past owners told me a guy had it up in Alaska when in the service..in WWII...does anyone know how many chevy 1/2 tons were made in 36? (low cabs?) thanks for info 35 trucker! BD

Chevrolet did sell a lot of trucks to the US Military and painted them Army olive drab color at the factory. I have the Indianapolis body plant blueprints for the 1935 open cab truck supplied to Artillery Corps (same as shown 75 years of Chevrolet by G. Dammann page 119). I believe I sent you production figures for 36 but they don't separate the High from the Low. The high cab cowl roof & doors were build the entire year on the "single unit" (Panels, suburban & canopy delivery) trucks. The pickup & 1.5 ton cab went into production very early in 36 calander year. The interior of the low cab dash and door trim were painted brown crinkle paint.

Some of my 1936 high cab literture shows what looks like a black dash panel. Picture is in b&w hard to tell but is a lot darker that the brown trim areas.

All the low cab 36 truck dash and door panel metals were painted brown crinkle paint. Olive Drab would have only been a military truck or a Bell Telephone truck.

Thanks James for the input and thanks for the things in the mail, I'll return chips, ad and brochure. Was that little sunshade over the windsheild an add on or did it come with some trucks?

It was an dealer option on the 34-35 trucks except all the "single unit bodies (panel, canopy express and suburban)which came with driver side only. The 36's on high cabs it came standard on driver side and dealer option on passenger. 36 was the first truck with inside rear view mirror (it also had the left upper door hinge outside rear view mirror. You can order a reproduced "1936 Engineering features" book from "Crank'en hope publications" 461 Sloan Alley, Blairsville, PA 15717 phone (412) 459-8853