52 Chevy panel project...lots of ???

[2ndGenRR]

Hey everybody - My brother just picked up this monster from Colorado. It's a 3/4 ton (at least?) panel, that is longer than normal panels (it's just shy of 20ft). However, it doesn't show any signs of being lengthened either on the chassis or body, which leads me to believe that it came this way from Generous Motors (I'm originally from Flint...sometimes local vernacular slips out ). Anywho...it lived it's entire life in Wray, Colorado, orginally as a school bus and then as an ambulance for the fire dept. It was modified for these endeavors by a company named Winter Weiss out of Denver.

Anybody know anything else about these trucks? Or have you seen any? Owned one?

Also, looking to convert the front suspension to ifs. I have heard of the '73 - '87 swap...can anybody point me to a thread on these conversions. Would like to use 3/4 ton stuff, but it looks like it is wider than 1/2 ton and therefore wouldn't work. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks for the info.

Pat