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Less than 3 months to go, anyone else want to provide some input into the weekend?

Radiation meters at a scrapyard? The only meter that I have seen when I pull in with a load of steel is the scale.

A couple YouTube videos of the Tournadozer in action, including one factory film... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIlssUFEo04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQa_TzmhlY

Saw this on eBay a few days ago - no link because that's against the rules, but only the pics is what I need. This is a military C-model Tournadozer, made by Le Tourneau in 1956. Almost looks silly, like a kids' toy, but back in the 1950s it was a serious earthmoving machine. In a world of...

Ditto that! I don't believe this guy has all of them rigged up to work at a moments notice. However, you can bet that he knows every circuit in those rigs with his eyes shut!

Saw this while cruising around for ham radio information. Not everything he has is military in nature, but take a look at the pics, you have to see the amount of military radio gear he has saved up, and on display in his hamshack (more like a ham MUSEUM)! Very cool.... http://www.qrz.com/db/w9evt

Try rigidsteel.com, I have used them before for some Jeep parts for an old CJ-3A I had. They carry LOTS of parts for jeeps from WWII through present, including the full-size jeeps and Cherokees. You can almost build an entire flat-fender jeep with all the parts they carry.

SBC conversions are common in the M715, but SBC conversions are common in everything out there, mainly due to parts availability. If your M715 can get running with minimal effort, keep it. It's a good engine as long as it's in good order, if it ever needs a rebuild, THEN you can chuck it and...

Very cool save, and a great price! My first MV project was a M725 ambulance version of the M715. It was in a lot worse shape than yours, and have a lot more work to do to get it running. You bought yours cheap, but in the right shape. Keep us informed with pics as your project comes along!

I plan to be there again as usual - depends on the work situation what days, however. Recently interviewed for a new position, the job is cool but the hours are very random, almost an on-call situation. Might affect the days I can attend.

I owned two - they are very useful, but a deuce is the minimum you want to haul it with, as far as military trucks go. (Stretch hauled it home with a 3/4-ton pickup, but I think he was borderline nuts). Going up and down hills EMPTY on I-95 in northern VA, slowed the deuce down to about 25 on...

Very cool truck, nice to see a shop truck saved, very few are...

What he said. There are lots of guys here who could use the parts for their own build. Torch what's leftover.

I wouldn't say the M123 series, any variant of it, was rare, in the sense that few were made. However, as most of them were made in the 1950s thru the early 1970s, that would make the youngest ones about 40 years old. They are too big for most to own, certainly not a daily driver. Most, when...

Found a few pics I took at Haspin in camp - I didn't take the camera out on the trail, everyone has a better camera than I, and the pictures they take always end up here and are good pics, so I don't bother with my camera much. Had a great time again, can't wait for next year....

Met with Jason yesterday, he was a great guy, picked up the M37 off of my friend Ralph, who had a stroke last year and won't be able to drive it anymore. The M37 was Ralph's baby, he had great plans for it, but in his improving (but still handicapped) state, it would be a long while before he...

Don't worry about it - keep driving it, the longer you own it, eventually it will be a new truck!

That's an awesome looking truck. Hope it goes to someone who will not only use it, but take care of it.

Sold a non-runner with a lot of new parts on it for $2,500 in 2011, but it was an eBay sale, and I really needed the money. Have a gentleman in TN interested in a friends' M37 that was running a few years back, complete, no big issues, with a ton of spare parts and two spare engines, etc. for $5K.

Good news about the interior, is that the military CUCV series was pretty spartan. The seats, center console, overhead console, that crappy-looking headliner, you can rip all that out and replace with a couple bench seats from M1008 parts trucks that lots of the guys here have. I'd breathe a...