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I saw this while browsing through JC's huge Yahoo photo collection that he linked to in another post. There's a photo of (what appears to be) an Art-deco era 4x4 Chevy 1.5 ton. I'm pretty sure I see a front differential and manual hubs. Does anyone know any more about this truck? I've been dreaming of building something exactly like it. There's an unrestored '41 1.5 ton for sale locally and I'd like to buy it and add one ton axles (modifying appropriately - perch relocation and narrowing). A divorced transfer case would be used, or a later 4-speed tranny with transfer case attached. I want this to look period - no monster mudder ambitions here. Here's the truck I'm talking about:

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It's a cool looking truck, I've seen pics of military Art Decos with 4x4. Definately won't be the fastest truck around, but definately unique.

I think this is military. The cabs of the military version were vertually the same as the commercial (I believe) and the firewall forward changed in terms of sheet metal for the military versions. A friend of mine just brought home a 41 military 1.5 ton and the wheels and hubs up front look just like these in the picture. Too bad we can't see the lugs as the military versions are 6 lug all the way around. I saw a 4x4 art deco COE military truck on ebay about a year ago which looked about like this so the military did have a use for some commercial type bodys used on military chassis.

Scott,
Check out: http://www.cutsoldtrucks.com/

He's got some pretty unique 1940's F**D Marmon Herrington 4X4 conversions as well as some hard working stovebolts. He calls them "working class trucks".