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January 14th, 2011. Dear Goat Whisperer: :-D Thanks for the video, it gives a whole new meaning to "Screaming Jimmy", but I will say IT IS faster then a deuce, and I believe the normally aspirated deuces might have been a couple of decibels quieter in the cab. If they weren't such a...

January 14th, 2011. The rule of thumb with a deuce....? They are big, mean, and go places nothing else can, and when you get one stuck, it's usually memorable.:???: And as to the Swedish Chicks...I hope they looked better after a coupla beers, Ya, Sure, You betcha!:twisted:

December 28th, 2010. 7 Dust: Regrettably I am in Illinois and my deuce is down in NE Texas, many miles from you. I agree with one post up here above, though, IF you can borrow two or four 10 ton Simplex railroad car jacks from someone in your area, and you are willing to do some hard ass...

December 23rd, 2010. Troop 2865: Here's to you from Springfield with an unusual pair of vehicles on my part. I hope to run into more of the Springfield area fellows though most have been laying low of late, I guess Christmas has them busy. If you're up here on a...

DEcember 23rd, 2010. Ouch!!! Was that a WWII Marine command truck version (I don't have my copy of Doyle's book handy-it's packed)? I think you might have underdeclared your vehicles value as a collector truck, but it does look like you're in for a new frame, and as to the hinges...

December 18th, 2010. Now to drop the angry cat into this dog fight.......:razz:! I know we are discussing HMMWV's here, but I do believe that David Doyle turned up something a couple of months back on the fact that the US Attorney General stated the only applicable regulations on the M35...

December 13th, 2010. :ditto: What he said! I would get a really good Deutz air cooled diesel unit with a Marathon Generator set built, as the parts are very available around the world and the unit's are super-reliable in every climate.:D

December 13th, 2010. Some M35A2's behave that way. After replacing the starter and solenoid with a brand new NOS starter and solenoid.... I wanted to try and see if it would start below 32*F.... Except I forgot to allow for the oil pump, rear main seal and clutch that went out on the trip from...

December 7th, 2010. PEARL HARBOR DAY! Honor the few we still have with us! #1 reason for selling a deuce? Moving to a state with laws that are not particularly conducive to owning and running one of these trucks daily! (Regrettably, right now, that's where the work is for me, but maybe I'll...

December 5th, 2010. Gents: All jesting aside.... I used to use my deuce about 4500+ miles a years as it was registered as a 10,000Lb capacity pick up truck. As that is the way the title came down from Colorado, I just paid for total loaded weight (Tare plus road capacity according to the...

December 4th, 2010. :-? Gents: What follows is a bad day in mudville scenario back in August 2010 here in Springfield, Il. I had stopped short at a stoplight behind a Dodge Caravan...about 25 or 30 feet short. As I was closing up the gap, at the last and worst possible instance my foot slipped...

Unimog Road Trip December 4th, 2010. Gents: It took forever, but see below for the photos for the road trip from Paris, TX to Springfield, IL July 3,4, & 5th, 2010. You don't want to know what all I had to master to get these off the telephone......:p The Pictures are: 1. Memphis Visitor...

November 25th, 2010. Happy Turkey Day, Gents!:grin: I have sat back and admired the intellectual powers brought to bear on the question of rod bolt failures, and the acuity brought to bear on solving the issue at hand. Might I ask, why do you suppose Uncle didn't go...

November 17th, 2010. I wish you fellows in Wisconsin luck with the new HMV law, but now that I am just over the border in the People's Republic of Illinois, I rather hope the law doesn't catch on here. My deuce is currently under repair in Texas, but I have already found out that IL law...

October 15th, 2010. Gents: Just my2cents worth.... I am not sure that lockers would do all that much for the FMTV's, given who or what might be driving them, under what conditions of service....? It's easier to pull a truck out with a wrecker or another truck, then it is to...

September 30th, 2010. NOW that I am, unfortunately, a few states nearer to the insanity of WisDOT then I was in Texas, I for one, AM paying close attention for fear this disease will creep over the border to the people's republic of Illinois. I can't wait to see how the Unimog or the...

September 25th, 2010. Good save on the truck. We had a coupla of those back in the 1970's that had the tar beat out of them hauling barrells off the barges at Wheeling Steel's Follansbee Coke Plant...when they left our employ I doubt they went 50 miles further before the engines...

September 23rd, 2010. Wilco: Please forgive the well intentioned, but alas, often caustic, comments on here. EVERYONE on here is an expert on something, even if it's their only lint filled navel..... The truck may not be perfect right now in it's paint or markings...

September 23rd, 2010. Well, it looks like Saddam's Nightmare just didn't want to leave north east Texas for Illinois!!! I loaded her and the M105A2 up on the last week of August in Reno, Texas for the move to Springfield, IL, and when I left on the 1st of September, I made it all the way to...

September 22nd, 2010. I still think my insurance company is in shock, as I gently bumped a Dodge Caravan due to my foot slipping off the clutch on a downshift with the Unimog coming to a stop. The impact was less then 1MPH..... I did about $5.00 damage to the Unimog's bumper (paint scratch)...