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Hey Rosco, I just moved to Fairbanks this past August. PM me if you ever want to get together!

Welcome to the site, from just north of you-Alaska! Tell us "recovery" stories! Feel free to PM me as well.

:funny: Now I'm trying to imagine being stuck next to an M939 at a traffic light that's pouring the bass like most compact cars owned by <20 year olds. rofl

This from that one mudding adventure you guys had?

Like others have said, congrats! Can't wait to get one myself.

Thanks! Yeah I only didn't buy it because of lack of money/space (If I'd gotten my dad to go in with me on it as a "project", him being a vintage car enthusiast, and we'd ended up with the 6 acres it looked like we might be living on, I would have snapped it right up). All it needed was tires...

Is it drivable? Could always drive it back, though a "recovery" trip with an unknown truck can be hit or miss. Nevertheless, congratulations!!! I almost bought a '68 M35A2 as my first vehicle and daily driver, as an 18 year old college student.

Hey mhb285, I'm originally from Atascadero! I'll be back in the area in December, PM me if you want to get together!

Sounds like a crazy trip! I assume it was uneventful? Maybe I'm crazy, but that's my idea of a pleasurable trip actually, I'd love to drive across the United States in an M939 series 5 ton one of these days. (probably recovering one I just acquired).

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the doghouse?

Agreed, I'd like to see video of a 923 doing a burnout LOL.

Absolutely, people either laugh really hard at my expense or cringe really bad whenever I relate that story!

Your remark about scraping the inside of the windshield made me laugh. I had my first experience driving a stick shift in an M49 fuel tanker Deuce, (well, let me rephrase that, trying to pop-start said M49 by having someone else tow me around with a material handler) and I learned that empty...

Interesting thread! I've thought about putting some sort of a stereo in my 5 ton once I get one. Not a subwoofer type guy but I'm more of the quadraphonic sound type I guess.

Agreed, great looking truck! Picking your daughter up from school huh...I bet that was the center of attention in the parking lot! :lol:

Yeah, the Fairbanks winters are going to suck regardless LOL. Some improvements would definitely be necessary if I were to embark on such a crazy venture. I've read plenty of stories high school and college students daily driving Deuces and 5 tons but never an M37, which is why I...

Good to know about the completely manual steering, though I think I could live with that. It's what creature comforts you're willing to live without I suppose.

OK, maybe I should have worded my original post better: It looked like I might have the 200 mile round trip every weekend, but since then that didn't happen (in a way, I'm thankful!). So at this point it would probably me more around-town-ish driving, since I think I want to get some housing...

OK, so here's the deal/backstory: -I've been infected with the "Green Iron Disease" for about 20-ish months now. You know how that goes, it can strike at any time without warning and the incubation period is extremely short! -In December of 2014 I got "hooked" and promptly had a brilliant...

Drivebymashing, does this mean you're now planning on getting one?