We're top and tailing this month's editorial content with two features on 3A-ton Dodges which aren't what they appear to be at first - or indeed second -glance. What do I mean by that? Well, take a look at the impressive vehicle decorating these pages. If you've a little knowledge of the Dodge WC-series or have a vehicle directory to hand you might believe it to be a WC60 emergency repair truck. Indeed, check the truck over at a show and you'll spot a very convenient (perhaps too convenient) brass plate suggesting exactly that and informing you that the body was manufactured by the American Body & Coach Co of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1942. On the other hand, if you really know your Dodges or take a second look at that vehicle directory you'll start to realise that things don't quite add up. The fold-down locker doors either side should have strengthening ribs on the outside, not the inside, and the rear body is too far forward, causing the spare wheel to prevent access to the driver's seat just as it would on an early WC51 weapons carrier. Then the penny will drop; this 'WC60' is on a 98in (2489mm) wheelbase chassis, not the 121 in (3073mm) chassis that the WC60 shared with, among other types, the WC54 ambulance.
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