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June 22nd, 2015. Bet they got a distant look at a GMC DUKW and decided they needed to copy it. All it needs is a sampan mast and sail to look like an interisland barge.......:D

June 22nd, 2015. hoosier unimog: There was a Sauer truck like the one in your photo that used to show up at the NSSA Shoot at Fort Shenandoah over by Gainesboro, Va before I left the area in 2007. All that I remember was that the winch was either behind the front bumper or behind the cab...

June 22nd, 2015 Hendrik74: Nice Tatra.... If you are considering house prices in Sweden versus Italy, perhaps you will find both the winters and the food somewhat different.... I suspect they don't know about Italian bread (peasant bread or mother loaf) in Sweden, so you are going to have to...

June 14th, 2015. Boy, when you altered that truck, you really opened a can of worms. If I were the inspector I would say rollback or wrecker, but not a military truck..... If you put the truck back to its military status you might make FMV if you repaint it and take the name off of the cab...

June 13th, 2015. $295.00 for plates!!! Ouch! Better move to either Texas or Illinois as our FMV plates are much, much cheaper, and here in Illinois there is no mileage or use restrictions.....:sad:

June 13th, 2015. And while you are theorizing in the tires being mounted one way or the other, remember early in WWII the White scout cars used basically ag pattern chevron tires. If they were mounted directionally, as they are on tractor rear wheels, they only pull well in forward motion, and...

June 13th, 2015. Backing Mr. Patracy as noted above, one will want to tread lightly, I know its irresistible to cross the boundaries, but the lightening bolts that will descend from Olympus do tend to refocus one's thoughts.....:twisted:

June 13th, 2015 68M35: Good luck with getting your deuce insured for commercial work....that will probably not fly as the inspection restrictions are much tighter on a non-farm use working truck.... Beyond which, dream on, the chance of getting a deuce to run 100 miles a day year in and out...

June 12th, 2015. The M105 is too much trailer for any civilian pickup, I don't care how you modify the trailer or the truck. They were designed for a two and a half ton medium truck, and even your 2500/3500 's are mere toys by comparison. If you get into a wreck pulling an oversize/overweight...

June 9th, 2015. The 1098 would have benefitted both from portal axles and locking differentials, but then, that is what the Army bought, as they didn't want a U1300L Unimog, so they bought the Austrian knock off.......8)

June 4th, 2015. Another Ahab: I have some small part of her stories and, of course, her 201 (orders) file, but that generation was not overly wordy about their experiences, be they in combat or not. One of her Quartermaster soldiers later became quite famous when he sang "Old Man River" in...

May 31st, 2015. Most diesels do have that capability to operate in reverse, some capitalized on it (large marine engines) and had their valve gearing set up accordingly. The M-19 Fairmont Railroad trackcar with the ROC gas engine was designed to do that so the car could run in reverse......8-)

May 31st, 2015. Generally there are few restrictions on an SEE, as Case built the forerunners of that design using S406 or 408 chassis and Schmidt equipment. They are capable little trucks, and will generally beat a conventional backhoe over the road to a job site.

May 31st, 2015. It might be time to get David Doyle to do one of his most exquisite vehicle design histories on these trucks, and then figure out how many still are surviving in operable condition in 2015!:D

May 31st, 2015. Interesting truck, but man, I would hate to find spare parts for it, as I suspect GMC or Chevy did just what AMC Jeep used to do, buy one part from every maker and create a vehicle out of the potpourri! It would have made an interesting truck, but at that time civilian pickups...

May 31st, 2015. Sorry to see even fair tailgates get wasted, given the number of M715's in need of those particular parts. Perhaps most people don't know, but with a little care, even fairly bowed tailgates can be straightened using a jack and a press frame. If you can straighten a car or truck...

May 15th, 2015. If there were 150 to 200 operating survivors in the US I would be amazed, as they were specifically engineered to be lifted by the pre Huey helicopters the Corps had then (the old Sikorsky's), so the critters were skeletonized and pared down to the maximum, and could be absolute...

May 15th, 2015. I regret to say that the windshield he has is likely M38-A1 with the adapter channel box to fit it to the Mite. The original windshields were little more then an aluminum storm sash set up on the side with one brace at each end, and they were really prone to flexing and...

May 15th, 2015. Other then the peculiar chromium yellow-green primer they used on the aluminum bodies, the trucks were painted the same USMC green as all other Marine wheeled vehicles, yellow lettering on hood sides and tailgates, unit insignias and numbers painted on the front quarter panels...

May 13th, 2015. Amazing how an engineer with a computer can design a cooling system so fouled up it takes a true genius to fix it! At one time cooling systems were: 1. a radiator; 2. a thermostat (or not, depending on if it was a thermic syphon system); 3. a water pump (or not, see # 2 above)...