Guntruck from the 512th TC

[Uglyranger]

Gun Truck 512th Transportation Company, Vietnam

 

[m3a1_ht]

You gotta love a gun truck. Wild Thing tailed me in a recent parade. Here is some more to look at:
http://www.transchool.eustis.army.mil/Museum/GTPictures.htm

BR,
Dan

 

[MrAugust]

look at M35s and M715s in england and me and my mates are there with our 2 replica gun trucks....

 

[FrankUSMC]

I found out this year that a friend of mine was the driver of a gun truck in Viet Nam called "Lil sure shot". Does any one know were I can get the book "The hard ride"? I think that is the name of it. I would like to get it for him.
Thanks for any help.
One of the few, Frank

 

[clinto]

Another Georgia guy! Welcome to Steel Soldiers!

 

[Guest]

Frank - Apparently you can get it right from the author. More info at...
http://134.198.33.115/atav/hard_ride.htm
Looks interesting. I hope it works out.

BR,
Dan

 

[WillWagner]

I like the yellow headlights. Wonder if those can still be had?

 

[m3a1_ht]

Forgot to log on... Here's something else interesting. A military report on convoy protection - essentially a history of gun trucks. It is 97 pages long so it make take a bit for the dial-ups.

BR,
Dan

 

[bigmike]

That gun truck site was cool. Thanks for the addy. I thought about making one some day...ya never know.

 

[Uglyranger]

Big Mike:
Here is a site dedicated to Vietnam Gun Trucks....a lot of good information, and plenty of pictures:
http://groups.msn.com/VietnamGuntrucks/_whatsnew.msnw
There is some information about "The Hard Ride" by James Lyles.

 

[MrAugust]

hard ride details were posted on M35s and M715s in england.... order code the lot and part 2 is now out....

 

[MrAugust]

http://academic.uofs.edu/faculty/gramborw/atav/gunstory.htm

 

[m3a1_ht]

Well, let's try that one again!

Here's something else interesting. A military report on convoy protection - essentially a history of gun trucks. It is 97 pages long so it make take a bit for the dial-ups.

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/killblane.pdf

BR,
Dan

 

[EastCoastKaiser]

I like the yellow headlights. Wonder if those can still be had?

You'll see a set on my M715 in my Avatar Picture. Another member spotted them on my truck and asked the same question so we started searching based on the numbers and mfg on the back of my lights. Apparently they are no longer manufactured. We weren't able to find anyone with any old inventory either. You might get lucky, I can get the numbers off them if you want. They aren't very practical on the street (probably not legal either), more like fog lights. I use them for show only.

 

[vtdeucedriver]

That truck is the GT "STEPPING WOLF"

 

[papercu]

gun trucks

Found some more pictures of the gun trucks in Vietnam. Wayne

about halfway down.

http://www.landscaper.net/theguns.htm

 

[jatonka]

RE: gun trucks

Jeff Houghton, can you pm mde asap? I'm in the middle of a gun truck build. need physchological mentoring and tech question answered. And spelling tutoring!!!! JT

 

[hndrsonj]

I have seen yellow lights somewhere, got to go look.

 

[m35a2cowner]

Yellow lights

Seems like someone was trying to get rid of some a couple of months ago. Try a search using amber lights. If I remember correctly there was a thread on how to convert you deuce headlights to a more common 24 volt setup avaliable at NAPA (Lucas lights?) and I think one of the things it mentioned was amber headlights.