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Just my two cents...
The M151A2 was ordered in 1969 and the first units rolled off the line in 1970. While Vietnam was still raging at the time, the drawdown was well underway and I don't have any photos or details to say that the A2s were in Vietnam at all. I have plenty of pics of M151A2s...
I saw this on the CL near me, listed as a 1951 trailer. The pics are small and the owner hasn't responded to my emails yet. The trailer looks like a M104 but I've never seen one other than in a military manual (drawing), not sure exactly what it is. Anyone know?
You won't get much of a deuce or 5-ton in trade for that. Maybe a basket case, or a running farm truck, at best. You could trade TOWARD a deuce, but you will probably still have to have a couple thou in your pocket to make up the difference.
I'd say $1,500 to $2K. It's a good start, but will still need a lot of work to get presentable, or even working reliably. Cheaper you can get it, the better.
There have been a couple guys who made a CUCV variant out of a Suburban, with excellent results. I think a crew cab CUCV would be pretty awesome.
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I hate to be the anti-gimpy, but I always seem to have good experiences with GL, or at least neutral. I cannot say that I have had a bad experience with GL at all, I must be the only one. I have had, however, problems with getting on bases (not GLs fault), a few items were not as good as...
Looks like a M199 two-axle dolly up front pulling the semi trailer. The trailer itself is very unique, never seen one like it. Perhaps WWII or early 1950s?
CJ2A frame with M38 body. It's a Bitsa Jeep. Made of bitsa this, and bitsa that. They are very common.
Regardless, if he doesn't have a matching frame for the M38 body, you can still match what you have together and make a Jeep that won't be original, be will still be fun!
Why not fix it yourself? Cut the front wall off, build a new front wall out of wood, or plate steel, or aluminum sheet. That trailer still has plenty of life left in it!
I'm planning on bringing a CUCV M1009 but that's dependent on a couple bonuses that I am still waiting on. If that falls through, I'll just be towing a M101 to sleep in.
I have a bunch of pics of CUCVs, every one I have seen the front turn signal lens appears to be clear, with maybe an amber bulb behind it. However, most turn signal lens on other vehicles are amber, with a standard white bulb. Are the turn signal lenses on the CUCV supposed to be yellow, and...
Then the earliest of the FMTVs will start coming out, but that's a ways off. Plus with reset/rebuild programs, and defense dollars always short, more and more trucks will be sent through them to provide like-new trucks to the DoD at a savings over new ones. So the majority of the HEMTTs...
Is this a Canadian M104 trailer, or an old American M104 trailer? I can't see much of the front wall of the trailer box, but it looks like it has it's own tailgate, like the early M104 trailers the USA used in the 1950s.