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Posted by Eric B. on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 17:36:02 :
In Reply to: Re: Factory Image proof... posted by John on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 17:12:23 :
Otherwise the 1958-60 and 1961-71 W500 winch bumpers are much the same.
Here are a few more images to look at:
1956 HW
http://townwagon.com/pgpws/pgw500/w500pages/5images/56hw4lf.jpg
1958 W500
http://townwagon.com/pgpws/pgw500/w500pages/5images/58w500saudi3.jpg
Another 1958 W500
http://townwagon.com/pgpws/pgw500/w500pages/58w500inwa.htm
Now I have looked at some of these trucks in person, and I know the 1958-60 W500 winch extensions, and other details are different then the 1961-71 W500s, but the images do show the same general style of bumper.
In my experience the bumpers work as follows in the 1961-71 era:
D100-D200-W100-W200 (no winch)
W100-W200 with winch, and W300
(with or without winch), D300, D400, D500, W500
W500 with winch
Obviously I may be missing some detail, and I did not mention the 1961-66 Town Wagons which used a different bumper, but the same one on D100 and W100 Town Wagons. Winch W100 Town Wagons got the same bumper as the standard pickup W100 with a winch.
It is easy to get confused when dealing with something as rare and outside the norm as the W500 winch bumper. I did not understand it right away either when I first saw one.
Eric