- 7,055
- 143
- 63
- Location
- Mid Hudson Valley NY
Thats why there are MIL SPEC's....
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Although I have compiled the data on literally thousands of deuces, I do not have enough data amassed yet to feel comfortable publishing a "master list"
The most common vehicles in the collector market came from the South Bend plant.
Those that begin with M are broken out earlier. Those that came from Kaiser-Jeep can be broadly broken out as follows. SN beginning with 06 and up were made by AM General. Those with a SN beginning with 04 and down were built by Kaiser-Jeep. 05 is the tough one, and could be Kaiser-Jeep, General Products Division or AM General.
I am getting closer to being able to break those out with a chart, but am not there yet.
Hope this helps,
David Doyle
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http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/35013-manafacturer-needed.html
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/33614-deuce-manufacturers.html
Yeah, they are still out there. Getting one that has already been repowered would be easiest but the clowns at the depots remove the original data plates and put new ones on. My goal in MV life is to find an old gasser with a nice frame and matching data plate that someone sold the axles out from under. With a frame and an original matching data plate, I'll get the truck I want.Kenny GL just sold a 57 utica-bend in eastover a couple months ago.CARNAC helped me get the year as being a 1953 studebker on the first truck VIN M31239 and David doyle let me know my second is a 1963 studebaker-packard VIN M61659.
YUP - EVERY one of these trucks was made in AMERICA, by AMERICAN companies for the AMERICAN armed forces (although some were later ditributed worldwide).Mine was made by Americans in America.
YUP - EVERY one of these trucks was made in AMERICA, by AMERICAN companies for the AMERICAN armed forces (although some were later ditributed worldwide).
On every truck there are the fingerprints, the blood, sweat, and tears of many a worker who kept in his or her mind the fact that they were producing for the greatest fighting forces in the world the BEST piece of equipment that they could provide them.
These trucks are also covered with the prayers of those workers who, in spite of any possible corporate-political wranglings, asked GOD ALMIGHTY to bless their work toward the victory of our troops in whatever conflict they were engaged at the time.
Gentlemen and ladies, these MVs represent American inginuity, American labor, American patriotism, and the very essence of what has made America great, and will continue to bind this country together in spite of what "politics" might do to undermine those divinely providential fundamentals of America.
I thank GOD that they were always AMERICAN MADE![]()
I have an American built truck that can go under water...and take the abuse of war...can your civic do that?![]()
Err, actually there are some that were assembled overseas from components made in the USA during the Vietnam era (and I don't mean the Kia KM250 near clones of the M35A2). Of course, the same thing was done in vast quantities during WWII with a variety of military vehicles.YUP - EVERY one of these trucks was made in AMERICA, by AMERICAN companies for the AMERICAN armed forces (although some were later ditributed worldwide).