Interesting Cletrac Crawler - Cherryville, BC
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N 50° 11.543 W 118° 33.129
11U E 389208 N 5561174
This really interesting hybrid can be seen at The Gold Panner Campground & Pioneer Village, 11.2 km south east of the Cherryville Tempo Gas Station.
Waymark Code: WMFXY2
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 12/14/2012
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The chassis is a Cletrac Model W Crawler, the radiator is likely from a 1940s Kohler Genset, and the engine (NOT a Kohler) is a later model 3 cylinder overhead valve job of unknown heritage or vintage.
There's another Cletrac Model W sitting right beside this one and I'll include a photo so you can compare the chassis. (I'll also include a pic of a spiffy, new looking Model W, so you can see what they're supposed to look like.) Like the other one, this one probably lost its engine and it was replaced with whatever the owner could get his hands on.
I guess this may possibly say two things about the Cletrac:
1 - possibly they came out of the factory with less than robust engines.
2 - people seem to have found them so useful that they would go to great lengths to keep them running.
Cletracs originally had a 276 ci engine that produced 20 hp at the belt and 12 hp at the drawbar. Weighing 3418 pounds, they could achieve a drawbar pull of 1790 pounds in high gear. In high gear, one of three available, the machine could move along at 4 mph at 1200 engine rpm. The model W was produced from 1919 to 1932.
Coordinates are for the entrance to the display area.
Engine Type: Internal Combustion
Wheel Type: Steel
Make: Cletrac (Cleveland Tractor Company)
Model: Model W
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