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Hello all! Thought I'd better introduce myself rather than continue to "lurk". I'm Jonny, I live in the UK and a couple of weeks ago I bought a freshly-imported C-3-B truck as a bit of a restoration project. It needs a fair bit of work, but does have the advantage of a solid body and chassis and a good drivetrain. When it arrived it had no brakes and incredibly loose steering, but I've fixed these and now plan to set about fully rewiring it, tidying up the odd bits of bodywork that aren't right (such as a couple of cracks in the rear wings fenders) and painting it in a suitably Fifties cream-over-red colour scheme. The truck is one of the later C-3 models, have found a few places that call them a "C-4" and the Dodge shop manual refers to them as "C-3 After". It's got a 241ci Poly V8, originally it should have had the 270ci but there are a few quotes in the service history for replacement engines at around 150,000 miles. It's a fairly basic version, no fancy optional extras such as a heater or radio and it has the 3-speed column shift manual transmission. My plan for the truck is to restore it rather than to modify or hotrod it. I'll modernise certain aspects, for example by adding a heater, seatbelts, UK-spec lighting and new electrics, but I'm aiming to keep the looks and the drivetrain as original as possible. Have found a lot of useful info on here so hopefully I can contribute something of use as well!
