What do I have?
Bought a Chevy frame out of the woods, no body. It's in amazingly good shape for a northeast find with only a little rust, probably too good to use for parts. It is supposed to be a 1963 Chevy Panel Van, described to me as bread truck, probably P20 series. It has a 133 inch wheelbase, 8 lug 17.5 inch wheels, and Eaton HO52 Diff marked PL1212 which I traced to a posi 5.14 ratio. The number on the frame horn near the steering box is T113607. I have the decoder chart but can't seem to figure out what it started life as. Can anyone help decode? Any suggestions on what to do with it?
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Is it a dually or SRW? I have a 64 GMC 133" WB that is a 1 tone...but it is a dually. Mine has the HO72 Eaton rear end. If yours is a SRW it still could be a 1 ton I believe...I am sure someone more knowledgeable will help soon. Free bump for you though.
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Tarrytown, NY
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looks like you have a GMC frame there. Leaf springs for one and in the middle where the drive shaft goes past in not enclosed. Don't really know what year. Dose it have drum or disc up front?
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If I bought that my guess would have been 1 ton SRW stepside, but I've never seen the bread truck style frame alone. It looks alot like my 3\4T GMC frame except I have Dana 60 rear. RTD's truck is a cab chassis DRW 1 ton so that might be difference there.
Were they called step vans then? I know some people call them panel trucks VS the panel trucks that are like a closed in suburban. |
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if it was one of those panel vans , wouldnt the steering box be pointed nearly straight up...just curious , cause i dont know
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in my mind . i picture it as being vertical and the pitman arm being 180deg from where it is...swing side2side..
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like this ...pic i grabbed off net
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Probably a Chevy since GMC normally did not stamp anything on the the frame rail as shown.
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Look at the body mount right behind the front spring hangers for the rear axle. Makes me think either a suburban/panel or the step van
I pulled a 9 foot stepside bed off a 65 Chevy a couple months ago. That frame had the same mounts as a regular, 8 foot bed truck |
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Did you ever measure the wheelbase on it? The 1-ton panel trucks were 133" and so were the 1 ton pickups with 9ft step side bed. 1 tons should have 8 leafs in the spring pack as well. C-20's were coil spring. Looks to be 1963 or newer since the front suspension is coil spring and not torsion bar.
If you can get the stamped code off the top of the rear axle third member that will help narrow down the year and maybe the application. |
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