I am working on a restoration project and am in need of a sleeper for the late 60s or 70s C model COE truck. This is the Ford sleeper that covers the back window and has room for a small bed.
I am not having much luck on this so far so if anyone has any kind of lead it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Andy. You can email me direct at andys@albaughinc.com

 

Foud 2 sleepers. Brought one home last week from southern georgia, along with a 3 ft. long snake, and will pick one up in indiana in a week or two when I am back out that way.Feel lucky to have come up with these as all the old road trucks seem to have been crushed as of late.

 

There's one in a truck boneyard about 20 miles from me. Not sure if it's still there, tho.
That guy also did a lot of crushing a couple of years ago when the price of steel was high.

 

I don't think a C-Model is a COE. Search Yahoo images for COE Truck. I thought COE is a "cab over engine" but doesn't tilt. I think "Cabover" Tilts to service.
Best, Dennis.........

 

True a tilt cab is not a COE, but lots of people mistakenly call them that. However the original C series was a COE, up until '58 when it became a tilt cab. During most of the the 60's, officially in the Ford service manual, the C is called the "Tilt Cab Series" and the N is called the "Cab Over Engine".

 

I remember seeing a few N-model Fords years ago. I found one link with a N-model as I remember them:
Don Querciagrossa Truck Pictures
I never thought of a N-model as a COE. Dumb attack I guess.

 

Here is a brief history of the COE Fords. Starting about 1937 or 38 Ford came out with their COE. The Ford COE was still in production until 1956. In 1957 the C series came out and as someone stated and was referred to as a tilt cab. In the world of truck lingo it was considered a COE just as a tilt cab Pete, KW, or a Freightliner would be called a COE. In 1961 Ford came out with the H model, essentially a stacked C cab, also a tilt cab if your will but still considered a cab over. In 1963 the Ford N series came out. Some people refer to them as a cab over, but actually they fall into the cab forward class of trucks and are not a true cab over. The term cab forward first appeared in the trucking industry in the late 50's or early 60's to describe a truck that did not have a tilt cab but still sat on top of the engine. These trucks always had a short hood on them.

 

This is the way that I will always think of a cabover ford. No hood at all.Same as Pete, Freightshaker,etc.

 

Well, Ford refered to the "N" series as a "cab over engine" model in the service manual covering 1963, the year it was introduced.

 

Ford also referred to them as short conventionals too.

 

Short nose conventional is the better term for the 60's N Model. Those H model cabovers are affectionally called "two-story falcolns". Even though they are called tilt-cabs, the C-series is a true COE. The cab is over the engine completely.
In the late 50's chevy-GMC had a model they referred to as the LCF. It was a short nosed gas job that had the motor stuffed under the floorboard like the vans do today. Every manufacturer had a spin on different ideas.