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While we're on the subject....
Here's a photo of a 'one ton panel' said to be a 1940. I agree with most of that, but what about the 8 lug axles? Looks like it's been that way a while. Shouldn't it have 5 on 7.25? Most likely somebody swapped them out in the past. Looks too long to be an altered 1/2 ton.
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Yeah, it would not originally have 8 x 6.5" pattern. If it's a tonner it would have had 5 x 6 7/8" pattern. If it's an early 3/4 ton I believe it would have had the "wide five" like a half ton. As a practical matter its later axles made it more functional in a modern world. Stu
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When my kids were young, we watched a movie called 'The journey of Natty Gann' a story of a teenaged girl on a cross country solo journey to find her missing father. She locates him in Washington or Oregon working as a logger. The men are run up to the site each day in a 'crummy' which was a 1 1/2 ton ford panel. Why do I remember this so well???? The yellow could easily be Weyerhauser crummy. On the trucks I remember as a kid, the fenders were always dark green. I agree the 8 lug is way more universal and easy to deal with. I'm gonna say those are 17" wms like on a '48-later tonner.
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