1941 Chevrolet light rescue

[explorer2770]

Last weekend, a colleague gave me his stash of kits that he was never going to build and one of them was a 1941 Chevy pickup kit. Instead of building it as a pickup, I decided to do something different and make it a war years light rescue.

I figured that a cash strapped municipality needing something to haul rescue tools after the start of the war would have gone to the local car dealerships to find something, anything, to haul their gear and they found this half ton truck. Instead of just throwing everything in the bed, they had a couple of handymen on the department make a simple box to carry the equipment. And voila, a light rescue was born.

I used the old Bell telephone boxes as a guide for this rescue box. Once painted, I will have silver straight pin heads to act as exterior bolts on the hinges. I plan to add a ladder rack and might throw some tool boxes on top to carry more gear. If I get really ambitious, I'm thinking about making a trailer pump for this to pull.

Now to decide upon the color combination:
Maroon red over black like the box art
Beige over black
or Tan over maroon red.

Recommendations welcome.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Looks good! Beige/black or maroon/black is a hard choice, but I'm sure it'll look good any way it's done!

[espo]

I remember this type of utility box on many types of trucks years ago. Many times the utility box had already been on more than one truck and usually they didn't care if it was pretty or matched the new truck. Often they were just painted black so that it didn't matter what color the new truck was.

[wayne swayze]

You have my attention. Like the look of the rescue box....reminds me of the telephone repair trucks in my home town back in the 50's.