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It's bad but it may not be as bad as I first thought. It appears to only be in the straight section of the frame. It slowly gets better as you move forward and appears to stop just before the frame begins to rise at the firewall. On another note I'm being told that finding a period correct...

In my mind the only way to properly fix this would be to completely disassemble the frame to pull the doubled section, fix and straighten the inner doubler and rebuild the frame from the ground up. While the truck is quite rare I don't know that it is worth this level of repair. Thoughts?

Got the WC59 home. Everything looks good as far as the engine goes. Clean oil, good coolant, clean carburetor. This one actually looks like it was a runner when it was parked. Body looks good although there will be holes to fill when the arctic cab is removed. Now the bad. As I was walking...

Today might be some day. Possible candidate found. It's slightly newer so unfortunately is has paddle latches instead of the period correct straight handles but it looks like the correct body. Does anyone know when paddle latches first appeared in general? The first is a sample body...

For now I'm going to try to find a windshield for it to get the cab closed up and store it. Too rare to use for parts. Might be able to find a telephone body for it some day.

While searching for parts I ran across what I thought was a WC51 parts truck (minus the windshield of course). The sheet metal looked good so I struck a deal based on just a couple of photos. Turned out to be a WC59 telephone maintenance truck minus the service body. Since so few of these were...