M35A3, another opinion.

[Recovry4x4]

I went by the local guard unit this morning on the way home from work. There was an M35A3 sitting by the fence. For all the folks who have been looking for those wheels, I would suggest you go by your guard to see if you can have a looksee yourself. Those wheels are purt near as ugly as the trucks themselves. I'm telling y'all, those things are funny looking.

 

[Wick246]

Wait a minute that's the same opinion as before.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Why, yes, it is. It was just re-enforced this morning when I had another look. Wick, you got me figured!

 

[Wick246]

I don't care for the hood, the auto transmission or the CTIS which doesn't sound like it has ever been reliable on a fleet wide basis. But the big downer is the price - thousands more and for all that money the truck doesn't do anything more than the A2 and it's ugly to boot.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Yup, well put. In a sense, like the HMMWV. Don't get me wrong, i'd love to have one but the amount of money to get one would get me 5 to7 deuces.

 

[cranetruck]

This pretty much says it all (except for no multifuel ).

(Image from the web)

 

[micky]

I have checked out 2 of them up close. I think they are way too cool! Other than the exspense of procurement, scarce spares and the poor performance of the CTIS I would love to have one. Of coarse I would have to have a complete A3 for parts. I am looking for the wheels and one of the Isringhausen seats. I would really like an Allison but the whole deal is completely unreasonable as far as price so I am going to forget about it!

 

[DrFoster]

I like the single wheels, muffler, and the almost 5-ton intake, but that's it. Those CTIS hubs make it look corny. I guess it has always been function over form for these trucks...

Now the new 8 Tons are COOL! I think oshkosh makes them. We had 6 in the artilllery battery I left in 1999.

 

[burt gummers]

looks like the wheels on an old steam engine...

 

[spicergear]

I know where 6 of them are and the guy won't budge on them. They look better without the CTIS wedge thing.

 

[clinto]

Those things are ugly. And I don't like automatics.

 

[BFR]

looks like something the yugoslavian army would have rejected

 

[Recovry4x4]

Looks like a Kia copy of a deuce!

 

[Armada]

Bwaaa-haaa-haaa-haaa

 

[red devils dude]

I like the single wheels, muffler, and the almost 5-ton intake, but that's it. Those CTIS hubs make it look corny. I guess it has always been function over form for these trucks...

Now the new 8 Tons are COOL! I think oshkosh makes them. We had 6 in the artilllery battery I left in 1999.

the MTVR? it's 7ton off road 15ton on-highway with a independent suspension
sound right?

 

[Djfreema]

I looking through auctions on GL and saw remnants of a burned out OSH KOSH pictured above. It looks repairable (frame and suspension). Only draw back its one of those auctions for 200K LBS of metal. I want to say it was out of 29 palms, Ca.

 

[rmgill]

Good videos of the MTVRs here...
http://www.oshkoshtruck.com/defense/products~mtvr~home.cfm

They're making a cabforward MTVR too.

 

[TONYBALONY]

DONT KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT EM , BUT I QUITE FANCY ONE O THEM THERE M900 SIERRES, BUT IN U K QUTE NON EXCISTANT , DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE OSHKOS , BUT THE TANKTRASPORTER AINT GOT A GOOD REP OVER HERE , BREAKDON PROBLEMS , SEE EM AT SIDE OF ROAD QUITE OFTEN , AND OUR R.E.M.E. ( MECHANICS ) CANT WORK ON EM , I THINK THIS APPLYS TO EARLY ENGINE MODELS . IF THE 6X6 HAS SAME ENGINE .... AS A MATTER OF INTERST IS THE M35 A3 CUMMINS ENGINED , ....... I LIKE REOS ON SUPER SINGLES , THEY LOOK QUITE COOL

 

[Wick246]

I think the M900 series and the Oshkosh 7 tons above are very cool trucks. Like everything though it's all in the eye of the beholder. Here I am saving and scraping my heart out to afford a 30 + year old MV and the bosses son brings in his new 06 Dodge Cummins 3500 with over 300 h.p. and I think approaching 700 ft. lbs. of torque now. He also has an '03 (I think) lifted extend cab desiel 3/4 ton Chev with leather seats and all the options and his wife drives a couple year old Jeep SUV. Some days just are not fair!

 

[TONYBALONY]

YEH BUT SURELEY THE TRUCKS ARE CHEEPER YOUR SIDE OF THE POND , I KNOW WHAT YA MEAN THOUGH I HAD A DREAM .... FOR ABOUT 10-15YRS YO GET MY BESS, N NOW I GOT HER I AINT GONNA SELL HER FOR ALL THE CASH IN THE WORLD!!!!! ( GOT A GOOD DEAL , WIFE LEAVES I GET REO , PERFECT!!!) ( NO OFFENCE TO ALL THOSE LADYS OUT THERE , BUT MINE WAS A PAIN IN THE ...........