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Thanks, Chuck, for this great post. I was reading this thread and planning to post some of these same thoughts. The brakes on this truck were designed to stop heavy loads and there is no question that they are better than what is found on the older trucks. The trucks were designed to be...
I can check. I will PM you after I contact him. I am completely willing to share sources, but I want to make sure that he wants me to share his contact info. As I said, he is a big-time collector. I have seen other pics of his stuff and, seriously, most anything he owns is nicer than most of...
Nope. $35K USD. I just went back and re-read his original email to me (Price was £19995). At the time, it converted to $35K USD...now it is around $32K. Trust me, I would have bought the tank, except my wife was lobbying hard against it. In the end I agreed to buy an M1015A1 when she suggested...
I was offered the T72 pictured below for $35K USD about a year ago. It has/had 250km since a complete overhaul, has/had only five shells fired from its main weapon and the main weapon was still live (the tank is in the UK where this is legal...of course I know this would have had to be demilled...
Chris, I will second your last sentence..."borderline beyond repair." You deserve some serious credit for resurrecting what was really a residue truck, no offense intended.
Greg is right on the money. I had a hankering for a U1300 at one point. I priced them domestically at between $25K-30K (this was a few years back). I also priced them in Europe. By the time you did all the legwork and paid all the fees, you were looking at near the same money, but with more...
Joe, I have had M939A2 trucks with the slash in the VIN and some without...all what appear to be original data plates and most built in 1989 (regardless of slash or not), but a couple from the 90s. The slash was purposeful, but I am not sure why some VINs have them and some don't. I would just...
There is a "fix" for this problem. CUCVFAN knows what to do. He was able to fix the problem in his old 1987 M1028A2 that had the same charging system as the ambulance. I would prefer that he explain it to you, but there are a few wires that you swap around. It decreases the output of the...
My recommendation is to do some homework by watching the sales. Since time is of the essence...it ALWAYS is...I would recommend that you price out a similar truck retail. Once you know what they should sell for, figure out what you feel would be a good price at auction. Then, compare that to...
Rather than modifying your CUCVs, perhaps, it makes more sense to buy another vehicle that will do what you want. Basically, you are taking a square peg and cutting off the edges to fit into a round hole. There is nothing wrong with swapping in a better motor or transmission, or adding an...
It was never delivered from the factory to the military as a dually. GM made a dually variant, but the military did not order any. Instead, ALL of the duallies were purposely converted, most using a military kit (I have seen a few that utilized some civilian components to convert a truck to a...
I agree with the others who said that their trucks started with the glow plugs only. While it generally does not get that cold in MD, it was in the 20s for several days in a row recently. My truck started without any hesitation. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly it started...like a...
My recommendation is not to try to start your trucks when it is that cold unless you have to do so. Why put the strain on the truck? Strange things happen when it is really cold out. Things fail that would otherwise be fine.
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