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rotorwrench · 08-14-2018, 10:26 AM

If you bob the tail, it will look a bit shorter. The 101 wheel base COE trucks of the era were the short ones. They made dump type boxes for them too.

We had a 1939 COE when I was a kid. It was a hand me down from a great uncle after he passed. It wasn't Ford though. It was a Chevy with the little 216 6-cylinder. It was one of the first dump bed trucks in the county I grew up in back in southwestern Kansas. They used hoist beds or scoop shovels to move grain before that. Not an easy life back then.

The single speed axles would likely be Timken types. They are near impossible to get gears for. Even a later electric shift 2-speed axle could be used but the electric parts would all be 12-volt most likely.

08-14-2018, 10:26 AM	#13
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,445	Re: New '39 COE owner questions If you bob the tail, it will look a bit shorter. The 101 wheel base COE trucks of the era were the short ones. They made dump type boxes for them too. We had a 1939 COE when I was a kid. It was a hand me down from a great uncle after he passed. It wasn't Ford though. It was a Chevy with the little 216 6-cylinder. It was one of the first dump bed trucks in the county I grew up in back in southwestern Kansas. They used hoist beds or scoop shovels to move grain before that. Not an easy life back then. The single speed axles would likely be Timken types. They are near impossible to get gears for. Even a later electric shift 2-speed axle could be used but the electric parts would all be 12-volt most likely.