Casey, been out of town on vacation for a couple of weeks and just got your
post. Yep, some of the '47s did have a column shift. Mine does. When I
first got the truck, I thought it had been converted to a column shift, but
was told by several knowledgeable people that some of the '47s did have the
3-speed column shifter.
The '47 2nd Series (first Advance Design pickup) was introduced in the
Summer of 1947. Could be that Chevy started putting some "new" parts on the
late '47s and later decided to use them exclusively....like on all the '48s.
Just my guess.
Bob Adler....any data on this??
Tom Caperton
'47 2nd 3100
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From: VIKINGHILL@aol.com
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: [oletrucks] More VIN questions...
>In helping out with the construction of the web page with the vin #'s, I
had
>an interesting situation come up, My truck was sold as an '48, and has all
the
>signs of being a 48. The radiator has an "48" stamped on the resevoir, and
the
>shifter is on the collum. When submitting the information for the sight, I
>noted that the 1st letter is an E instead of the F that was supposed to be
for
>the '48. The code went on to reveal that the truck was produced in
Atlanta,
>in November. My Questions are these: Did any '47's come with collum
shifters?
>And, is it possible that I have a late, late, verry late '47 that had
already
>began to use '48 parts?
>
>I do not know if such a possibility exists, I've contacted the second owner
of
>the truck and he purchased the truck in 1968 and said that he thought it
was a
>'48 because of the radiator.
>
>What do I have?
>
>Casey
>?'48? Chevrolet Thriftmaster 3100
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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