Maybe a CUCV too!
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:21 pm
Wife and I are out to SE Nebraska for family time, and in her small city (more appropriately big town), there is a surplus army truck dealer, mostly big stuff, flatbeds, five tons, and wreckers and such. His primary occupation is using his army wreckers to pull sunk farm machinery out of fields, and semi's out from under bridges and such. Takes really big machinery to do that sort of recovery. Last summer, I bought some accessories for my then just acquired M37, although he is primarily a Big Surplus Truck dealer. He has this nifty M114, he put a replacement motor in it. We had those in Germany when I was there in '69 - '70, company commanders had them, the rest of us were ridding in M113's. Some of the 114's had these potent 30mm Vulcan's on them. The driver of our CO's M114 panicked on a lake exercise, and swam away from his leaking 114, and we watched it sink to the top of the antennae.
The local chap has these two awesome Unimogs, army surplus, with shovels on the front, and back hoe's on the rear. An so contractors can keep building them for the military.
Dropped by today, and got all interested in a pristine CUCV, surface rust only on the frame, has a gas 350 in it, has the racks for M16's in it. Saw that it was a unit's Commander's vehicle, so no wonder it is so nice. Wife says "maybe", and the price is well below what beat and rusty ones seem to sell for.
I can't post any pictures yet of the 114 or the CUCV (he has several) 'till I get home next week.
I drove HUMVE's a lot in Desert Storm, and CUCV's too.
NV
The local chap has these two awesome Unimogs, army surplus, with shovels on the front, and back hoe's on the rear. An so contractors can keep building them for the military.
Dropped by today, and got all interested in a pristine CUCV, surface rust only on the frame, has a gas 350 in it, has the racks for M16's in it. Saw that it was a unit's Commander's vehicle, so no wonder it is so nice. Wife says "maybe", and the price is well below what beat and rusty ones seem to sell for.
I can't post any pictures yet of the 114 or the CUCV (he has several) 'till I get home next week.
I drove HUMVE's a lot in Desert Storm, and CUCV's too.
NV