Forest Gump '88 M35A2C Recovery Kleiver Armory

[frodobaggins]

My God It's HUGE, are you sure this is a deuce

 

[mkcoen]

Want to trade for a nice M101A1? Sorry, after yesterday I'm not going to deliver it. (although I will be in Pullman in August for a wedding so I could pick the truck up then )

 

[Chevytruck]

nice recovery!

powersteering is a big bonus!

 

[KaiserM109]

… Anyway as you will notice, she was affectionally or I mean he was affectionally known as "Forest Gump". Not sure if I'm going to keep it there but for now it stays

You gotta keep it, but you also have to put 9th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry bumper numbers on it.

AW
Formerly of 9th ID, 15th Combat Engrs. and 1st Bn, 11th Arty, Vietnam

 

[mkcoen]

You gotta keep it, but you also have to put 9th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry bumper numbers on it.

AW
Formerly of 9th ID, 15th Combat Engrs. and 1st Bn, 11th Arty, Vietnam

Actually I believe his father-in-law was in 2/60 INF (also 9th ID and my former unit) which would be more appropriate.

 

[scooter01922]

NICE score, thats one really, really, really clean truck.

 

[wsucougarx]

Actually I believe his father-in-law was in 2/60 INF (also 9th ID and my former unit) which would be more appropriate.

Wow, outstanding memory!!!! My father in law was indeed w/the 2/60th, 9th Infantry Division from '67-'68 and was actually included in Senator John McCain's autobiography on pg 276 of Faith of my Father's (SSGT Randy Carpenter). He pretty much spent his entire tour in the Mekong, along w/the rest of the 9th.

 

[wsucougarx]

My God It's HUGE, are you sure this is a deuce

LOL, that's funny. My son's biggest adventure was collecting those airsoft bb's off the ground. There were 1000's all over the place. I got my truck and he got his bb's. Now it's just a matter of time and they'll be all over the house

 

[rchalmers3]

BUtiful truck, looks like a score! Thanks for posting your recovery with pics!

Rick

 

[Jeeperjoe]

nice score... now only if i can get that lucky....

 

[KaiserM109]

Actually I believe his father-in-law was in 2/60 INF (also 9th ID and my former unit) which would be more appropriate.

Welcome home brothers!

We dropped a lot of HE for 2/60. Glad we missed ya!

 

[srodocker]

So what vehicles your bringing for the ralley?

 

[wsucougarx]

Hmm, probably the new one

 

[srodocker]

why not have the wife drive the new one and you drive another one

 

[wsucougarx]

LOL, if she were going. Nah, she doesn't quite have OD Fever or anything related to it. She's got "Why do you need 3 deuces? Fever"

 

[srodocker]

hrm my gf and mom are still at..."why get one at all" stage and then my dad is looking for places to help store one already

 

[wsucougarx]

I completely drained the fuel tank last night. Yikes there were patches of brown goo on the bottom of the tank. I got her cleaned up pretty good and gave her a good diesel rinse before putting fresh diesel in. Need to get the oil changed and fuel filter changed out tonight.

Future projects:
Manual Windshield Washer
Air tank relief valves (Hmm need 3 valves)
Double gun rack (more or less to hang things off of and good cup holder)
Winch kit (already have bumper ext and winch brackets)
900 series grab handle for hood handle

 

[Hammer]

Ok, NOW I know who outbid me!
I remember seeing that truck there the first time I was on that base.
Guess it was defaulted, and went back up for auction.
Drooled over it again the second time on that base when I got my M109.
The CWO on that post is a nice guy. The motor pool there is full of some pretty helpful people!
And they told me how they had put a number of those vehicles up to spec before turning them over to DRMS/DRMO. I drove a few of mine 360+ miles home from that base!

Sounds like Gump got a good home. My wife is jealous, she wanted that truck! lol

 

[Sumoman]

Momma always said an M35A2C looked good in the yard.

Ok that was bad, but congrats anyway, NICE truck.

 

[wsucougarx]

Ok, NOW I know who outbid me!
I remember seeing that truck there the first time I was on that base.
Guess it was defaulted, and went back up for auction.
Drooled over it again the second time on that base when I got my M109.
The CWO on that post is a nice guy. The motor pool there is full of some pretty helpful people!
And they told me how they had put a number of those vehicles up to spec before turning them over to DRMS/DRMO. I drove a few of mine 360+ miles home from that base!

Sounds like Gump got a good home. My wife is jealous, she wanted that truck! lol

Hammer, wait a second I thought you were liquidating your 2.5 tons for a 5 ton Were you the one who I was bidding against until the end? So exactly how long has that truck been sitting there?