I just removed my tank from the GH truck. It is a frame mount with 3 support straps. Curious if anyone has used any of the services in Hemmings for tank restoration. Is it worth the cost, or should I look for a replacement tank?
Pictures coming of the tank. I think it may be an odd duck.

 

It's an odd duck, because your F250 Good Humor ice cream truck is an Open Drive-Away (Cowl & Windshield). So, there's no in-cab fuel tank, because there's no cab.

A Conventional Cab is body style 81. A Cowl & Windshield Open Drive-Away is body style 85. A Chassis & Cowl (no windshield) Open Drive-Away is body style 84.

C5TZ-9002-A .. 17 Gallon Fuel Tank-mounted left side-inside frame rail / Obsolete / ONE FoMoCo Dealer has ONE / No one else has any, I sent you an email with the source.

Applications: 1965/69 F100/350 body styles 84 & 85 / 1965/69 P100/500 (P Series Parcel Delivery) / 1970/71 F250 body style 84 & F350 body styles 84 & 85 / 1970/71 P350/500 / 1972 P350.

1973/76 P350 w/104" wheelbase w/o Evaporative Emission / 1973/76 F250/350 Crew Cab-Optional-Use in addition to in-cab fuel tank.

btw: How many original Japanese Zero fighter planes are extant today? No more than 5 out of over 15,000 produced. Japanese aircraft did not have self-sealing fuel tanks. One bullet in the tank, the gasoline exploded.

US aircraft had self sealing fuel tanks, when bullets entered the tanks, the rubberized liner sealed up the holes. This is the same rubberized liner material I noted above.

 

See, now that's the kind of info I like. Ford parts info, followed up with a brief history lesson.
Now, in addition to the tank, looks like I need supports as well. Does anyone reproduce these? Part 21C9053 or C6TZ9053A.

 

Dang, I just spent 20 minutes trolling thru the 1964/72 truck catalog looking for a pic of those fracatta straps/part numbers that you asked me about in an email.

Now, I see you already have the part numbers!

No one has 21C-9053 as I said in my last email and no one has C6TZ-9053-A either.

But, the 21C straps may be reproduced, as their original application was 1942/47 Commercial (1/2 ton) Panel Trucks.

 

20 Minutes??? Wow you must be slipping. I thought all of these part numbers were filed away "upstairs".
I was lucky enough to make contact with your referral. Many thanks! May have to fabricate the tank brackets though. The pleasures of owning an "odd duck".

 

The straps are usually basic number 9092, but are not listed under that number for Drive-Away's.

Then I went looking for the parts catalog pic...but there isn't one for Drive Away's. So, then I looked under P Series Parcel Delivery, cuz some a these old rolling piles of misery use the same tank, found the number: VOILA!

Next, I had to sign on to the two parts locator sites, type the numbers. Found zip, zero, nada. I sent you a return email with what I had found.

All this jazz took 20 minutes. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, you already had the part numbers, but you failed to list/tell me that in your email.

So, I wasted 20 minutes. If you had included the part numbers, signing on/searching woulda taken about 3 minutes.

 

The Zero was a fast & maneuverable machine, partly because it did away with niceties like the self sealing fuel tanks...and armor plate for the pilot.
Humorous true story-the Zero was built by Mitsubishi-yes the same Mitsubishi that sells us automobiles today. The Ford dealership I work for was started in 1946 by a man who was a US Navy pilot in WWII. When Japanese cars started becoming popular in the 70's and 80's, it took quite a bit of convincing to get him to buy a Mitsubishi franchise! He said something to the effect of "Their planes shot me down two times, I'll be dammed if I sell their cars!"

 

Convenient, if you catch any machine gun fire driving your Good Humor truck....

 

LOL, Bandits two o'clock...

Here is a picture of my assistant hard at work. You always have to be on your toes.

 

What a cutie!

Hey, my dad was also a waist gunner in a B-17!

 

Hey Greg,

That pic was taken inside a B-17. Amazing how thin the skin was on the aircraft. I remember watching "12 O'Clock High" as a kid, and those planes looked big inside and had a lot of protection. WRONG! Now you can see how enemy cannon fire would tear through those things. My hat is off to all those who serve, especially our Dads who fought in the World War.
I also had a war time bike. A 1943 BMW R75 with sidecar. Loads of fun to drive, not so fun finding replacement parts.

 

Wouldn't even have to be a cannon! My dad came home with a piece of flak that couldn't have been more than 3/16" thick by 1/2" square. Went thru the bottom of the aircraft and into the parachute he was sitting on!

He dug it out when they got back from the mission.