Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:10 pm by Smog_guy
There's a thread here that has cab wood dimensions for the A and B model but I don't recall one for the C yet?
C is definitely a different cab.
Are you restoring, hot rodding, updating, gonna drive all the time??
My advice these days would be to replace wood with metal.
I don't know anyone making wood kits like there are for Chevy.
C series wood content varies with year and factory where it was made. That's a fact!
Early C models were erector set/ lincoln log picture puzzles! Say '34 '35?
I know because I have one or two.
They made the C into early 1937 and those have the least wood.
Especially prized are the all-metal doors. Late production.
Which one do you have??
On the HAMB I've seen folks reinforce their termite trucks with electrical conduit.
It's cheap and easy to bend. Evidently works, too.
I can hear BOOS from the traditionalists!
OR, you can purchase the hard-rock maple and cut out the wood pieces using what's left of your wood as a pattern.
These pieces are complicated in any instances. However, we humans can overcome this challenge.
As far as the pieces that are completely missing or too- far gone.
What then?
On my C series cab I got the doors to fit as close to perfectly as possible an then temp. welded straps to hold the cab in place.
Then had a pretty close idea of what the floor looked like.
Originally the C floor had two heavy pieces of wood laying flat about the dimensions of a 2x8 or so (but tapered) inside each door connecting the cowl feet and front cab feet to the stamped metal boxes in each rear corner of the cab.
If this all sound complicated and overwhelming you can sell your present project and move up a year or two to the D Series IHC (1937-40).
It's ALL STEEL! YAY!!!
Good luck, Don
Btw the red C-30 is just a picture I found on the HAMB.
1933 IHC Bus. Cpe
1933 IHC B-3 f
1935 C-1 IHC pickup
2 x 1936 IHC C-30 Fbs
3 x 1938 IHC D-2 Pickups
1938 IHC D-30 fb
1941 IHC K-1
2 x 1947 IHC KB-1 Pickups
2x 1953 IHC R pickups