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Had a little time again

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I’m a little bored so I went back to the truck to look at more clues. Ok so the door is a 42-46 and the cab seems to be same - there are no screw holes for the rear window retainer.  The doors do have three holes each about 6” between them and looking at the “shadows” I’m seeing a Shell Oil shape logo.  Watch the 10 sec clip here and let me know what you think.   

Well well its NOT a 41 after all - at least the passenger door isn't

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When one doesn't sleep well, one does research into life's mysteries. In this case the mystery is The last Project.  There is, as you may know, a forum for almost every interest on the web. in this case, I use the Stovebolt.com forum a lot to identify the truck.  There are years of data there - crowdsourced knowledge that humans could only dream of pre-web. I first signed up to help my late brother with his 46 1/2 Ton that he sold to a framer in Australia when we passed on the gift due to its size.  Now we are at 3/4 ton so 50% the challenge - ha!  Today's indicator is the passenger side door handle . Seems in 41 the key hole was in the center of the door handle and as seen here we are below, we are below making a 42-46 era door:  Okay so its not a 41. That is okay since the 2AAF engine is surely a 216   and the wheel base and bed are for a 3/4 ton.    I will need to look at the trans and the diff tags to continue.  The Chevrolet manuals are handy  by year :  http://chevy.