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$25 to Help Me Identify This Vehicle - 1953

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YouSuckI'mOK - 06 Apr 2005 00:56 GMT

1953 Dodge

Info tag states

TYPE BD4 (translates to 1-ton vehicle, 1953)

VEH#/CHASSIS 81469947 (translates to being a 1953 B-D-4 built in Detroit)

B-4-D-126 (translates to 126 inch wheelbase)

MODEL DWS109 (here I am lost - never saw that model code before)

Pictures are here -

http://www.inet-lender.com/1953Dodge/

So far, I purchased the DUNN books (no mention or pictures of this type) and
the 1953 Dodge Trucks Shop Manual (no reference to this type)

Pretty Please?

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nospam.clare.nce@sny.der.on.ca - 06 Apr 2005 05:55 GMT

>1953 Dodge
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>http://www.inet-lender.com/1953Dodge/

Just to be sure - check the wheelbase. I'm sure it is longer than 126"
That baby's been modified. like an early fifties Mercedes, and
possibly custom bodied at that, grafted to a lengthened Dodge chassis
- possibly a forward control commercial chassis, lime the early
Travco.

I've found another picture of a similar van - supposedly a grumman?
Different grille. See it at:
http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma/04099.jpg and
http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma/04100.jpg

Then again, about 2/3 of the way down the page at
http://www.oldtrucks.com/bigrigs/46-50.shtml is a ford bread truck
that looks amazingly similar.

>So far, I purchased the DUNN books (no mention or pictures of this type) and
>the 1953 Dodge Trucks Shop Manual (no reference to this type)
>
>Pretty Please?

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