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by W. Winget » Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:27 pm
There was an identical one I think in Alabama a few years back for 2K, but you need the chassis under it...
"Production" of the Standard B (Liberty) was for cargo trucks, following WWI, all sorts of things happened like troop seats added in (about '22) metal dump bodies, single wide rear tires cross hatched tires, etc. but if you want a factory or Wartime truck, it's going to be a cargo bed with 6 flat tread solid rubber tires with either metal or wood wheel.
The Liberty bed has 10 bolts per side board and then a header angle iron with about 5 additional bolts per side, this means the sideboards really never came off, they don't just drop in slots like a modern flatbed, each bolster has three pieces of cast metal with the last upright being wider. So repoping those has been a hold up, no one wants to take apart a good bed to loan one for casting.
Any bed would be fine to parade with for next years 100th anniversary, but a factory bed is what I want to shoot for.
V/R W Winget
PS: San Antonio Tx. Roads department volunteers restored a Standard B with a nice steel flatbed and Pneumatic tires, doors, etc. "restored" is a very loose term to many, this forum is generally not using that term so loosely. WAW
Looking for 1918 Standard B 'Liberty' truck parts