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Our local city public works has been using M1008's and fixing them up for plow, work and maintenance trucks. This one is the vehicle maintenance shop's road service truck. They did an extra nice job on it.

I picked these off the internet somewhere. May have even been this site. I have a M1009 getting painted black in shop now. I will post when done.

Without a doubt that is the most incredible scale model I have ever seen. [thumbzup]

Thx guys. The security aspect is a plus and the storage on the sides would be nice. If I am able to get them they would be used for off road law enforcement response such as disasters or remote crime scenes. These two had soft skin doors but I could acquire the hard doors later.

I was at Letterkenny Army Depot yesterday picking up some trailers for our Sheriff's Office thru the LESO program. I saw a couple of hard top HMMWVs there and wanted to know what they were used for. I searched and found that it was a kit that could be ordered thru supply to convert soft tops but...

Welcome from just up the river in Wheeling. We run some former military stuff here for off road and disaster response (floods mostly). The city likes to use 1008's for snow plows and work trucks. We dont have any big dumps or graders like you though.

I rememeber watching news coverage of the recents events in Egypt and seeing Abrams tanks during the protests. I thought to myself "Self, I hope those dont get used against us or our friends."

Thought I'd post an update. Couldnt get any of the auto body programs at the schools to help out. Too many dents to pull out of the drivers ed car I guess. Anyway, I made a deal with our maintanance shop, if I did the grunt work they would spray them. Well I think I'm ready to take it to them...

Thanks for the pics. Ever since my brother in law was in Marine Artillery, he talked about driving "7tons". Being from the Army I had no idea what he was talking about. I only new the deuce and 5 tons.

Same plane was here a few years ago and a friend of ours tried to get his father to go see it because he was on bomber crews in WWII. He never talked much about it before and politely said he had no desire to see this one because he lost too many friends in them. I also had a neighbor where I...

We had a B17G Flying Fortress at our local airport (Wheeling/Ohio Co, WV) this week. Saw it land and taxi after a flight with some folks who put up the cash for a ride. Its the Sentimental Journey with the Commerative Air Force.

Hey LT, one of my old partners is a pilot in that unit and I hunt with one of the crew chiefs. Sending a PM.

Sorry. I thought I did the pics right. Take 2.

We went to Letterkenny Army Depot and recovered these two M1009's through the 1033 or LESO program. Towed one, drove one. Had no major issues but noticed the rear seal on the transer case of the one I drove was leaking. Tailgate and rear axle were spotted pretty bad. We plan on getting one more...

Test test test.