From: Conrad Vogel (conrad@nidlink.com)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 08:35:58 PST
Tony,
All ACKWX and AFKWX trucks origanally had the GMC 256, which was kind of
a crossbreed between a 248 and a 270. It's hard to tell what Government
Contract number the ACKWX was built under without having the Government
Registration Number from the hood. It was stencilled on the top and
bottom - if he still has the original hood that is.
I'm not around mine at the moment, and don't have the serial number to
compare against mine, but if I can dig it up, they may have been built
(somewhat) sequentially with the contract numbers.
Conrad Vogel
mailto:conrad@nidlink.com
mailto:conradvogel@hotmail.com
http://www.nidlink.com/~conrad/trucks.html
'40 GMC ACKWX-353 (was grandpa's farm truck)
'61 GMC 1/2 ton (was grandpa's farm truck)
'61 GMC 3/4 ton
'61 GMC 4000 (was grandpa's farm truck)
'62 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 (Annie)
tonygull wrote:
> The serial no of Les ACKWX : ACKWX-353-6930.
>
> Photos in a week or so hopefully.
>
> He was most grateful for the info, he has blank
> side panels that can now be louvered at an
> aero engineer shop he has access to.
>
> I will ask Les, i think he had some wheels made
> to suit, also think he had a way around
> the instrument panel situation.
>
> His truck did not have the correct engine,
> which my book says would be the 248ci,
> but has a Chev Blueflame motor fitted.
>
> he thinks the truck may have entered Oz
> in the Port of Woollongong, with a shipment
> of trucks etc from England...during the '50s
> thousands of off-road trucks were imported under
> special duty-free provisions, mainly from Belgium,
> to complete major infrastructure projects.
> When they were 'worn-out', they would be
> auctioned and a new lot imported.
>
> Les told me when he first developed an interest
> in these matters he went to an aution (in the
> 1960s) and the truck went for $1200, his
> weekly wage was $30...so he started to build one up from surplus parts
> ...he still has it, I saw it, but i dont think it ever got finished.
>
> regards tony
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