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Where are you intending to relocate the air intake stack, exhaust stack, and vent tube bundle too? If you shorten that stuff to make room for a cab extension, you're going to seriously reduce the vehicle's ability to ford water. Diesel engines are not like gas engines- even a tiny amount of...

FWIW, the cab is ginormous- my wife is a little pixie (not quite five feet tall), and she can stand up completely and walk around inside the cab without hitting her head on the ceiling.

How many people are you trying to seat in the cab? The rear cab wall is a structural member- the center rear cab mount attaches to the bottom of it, and it is no little thing. I'm not sure how you would be able to cut that wall out to extend the cab rearwards, and still be able to have that cab...

Have you seen our thread? https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/just-purchased-an-mtvr.194777/ We built a rear "drawbridge" door to serve as our back porch, and it is powered by a pair of 3,500 pound winches with automatic load holding. Our winches are located at the rear, in the upper...

I also believe that extending the box over the cab roof is impractical. For starters, the truck is designed to twist when it articulates, and the bed has a torsion-free mounting system, so you'd have to have a fair amount of clearance between the top of the cab and the bottom of the overhang...

I believe that a walk-through type box would be impractical for the MTVR. Our box extends about 5" forward of the front of the bed, and we use the platform between the cab and bed as our front porch. We also mounted our generator to an extension of that platform, behind the stacks.

Technically, there is about 31.5" of space in between the back of the cab and the front of the bed, but there is a lot of stuff in between the two- the air intake stack, the exhaust stack/muffler, the transmission fill tube, a large bundle of vent hoses, the master battery switch, the "slave"...

As far as the height of the bed, keep in mind that the tire brand, tread depth, tire pressure, and the load in the bed will determine the height of the bed itself. Our vehicle has the original Michelin tires, they are at about 90% tread depth, the CTIS system currently has them inflated to the...

I am measuring about 75.5" from the leading edge of the cab to the leading edge of the bed...

When we're on the freeway in our MTVR, we're usually doing 65 mph...

That was the point at which we decided the container wouldn't work for us, if we had to cut it all apart and weld it all back together to make it the right length and the right height. Our design is 3/4" plywood sheathing inside and out, screwed and glued to 2x4 framing with a fantastically...

A normal container on an MTVR is going to make it over 14 feet tall- that's one of the reasons why we ended up building our own box.

So...back to my original question- are there currently none up for auction, or what?

Huh? Ours was an AMK23 (built with armor, not armor added on), and ours came with doors...and they didn't remove all the armor, so we've been pulling it out as needed...

Why no doors?

We have experienced it. I think I may have even started a thread on it somewhere...

Has the supply dried up, or is my search-fu just weak?

Are you Frank H.?

Thanks, guys. My wife and I have now moved to Texas. I suggest you do the same...

I was aware of the power reduction, but I didn't know the exact numbers. We used the 2-7.1 Highway setting the whole way. We had enough power to get the job done, and I didn't want to stress anything any more than we already were, so I avoided using the 7.1-15 ton Highway setting.