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SBC conversions are common in the M715, but SBC conversions are common in everything out there, mainly due to parts availability. If your M715 can get running with minimal effort, keep it. It's a good engine as long as it's in good order, if it ever needs a rebuild, THEN you can chuck it and...

Very cool save, and a great price! My first MV project was a M725 ambulance version of the M715. It was in a lot worse shape than yours, and have a lot more work to do to get it running. You bought yours cheap, but in the right shape. Keep us informed with pics as your project comes along!

I plan to be there again as usual - depends on the work situation what days, however. Recently interviewed for a new position, the job is cool but the hours are very random, almost an on-call situation. Might affect the days I can attend.

I owned two - they are very useful, but a deuce is the minimum you want to haul it with, as far as military trucks go. (Stretch hauled it home with a 3/4-ton pickup, but I think he was borderline nuts). Going up and down hills EMPTY on I-95 in northern VA, slowed the deuce down to about 25 on...

Very cool truck, nice to see a shop truck saved, very few are...

What he said. There are lots of guys here who could use the parts for their own build. Torch what's leftover.

I wouldn't say the M123 series, any variant of it, was rare, in the sense that few were made. However, as most of them were made in the 1950s thru the early 1970s, that would make the youngest ones about 40 years old. They are too big for most to own, certainly not a daily driver. Most, when...

Found a few pics I took at Haspin in camp - I didn't take the camera out on the trail, everyone has a better camera than I, and the pictures they take always end up here and are good pics, so I don't bother with my camera much. Had a great time again, can't wait for next year....

Met with Jason yesterday, he was a great guy, picked up the M37 off of my friend Ralph, who had a stroke last year and won't be able to drive it anymore. The M37 was Ralph's baby, he had great plans for it, but in his improving (but still handicapped) state, it would be a long while before he...

Don't worry about it - keep driving it, the longer you own it, eventually it will be a new truck!

That's an awesome looking truck. Hope it goes to someone who will not only use it, but take care of it.

Sold a non-runner with a lot of new parts on it for $2,500 in 2011, but it was an eBay sale, and I really needed the money. Have a gentleman in TN interested in a friends' M37 that was running a few years back, complete, no big issues, with a ton of spare parts and two spare engines, etc. for $5K.

Good news about the interior, is that the military CUCV series was pretty spartan. The seats, center console, overhead console, that crappy-looking headliner, you can rip all that out and replace with a couple bench seats from M1008 parts trucks that lots of the guys here have. I'd breathe a...

Good save on the truck! If you need parts to restore the electrical, Lord knows there are a lot of CUCV parts truck owners here that can help out with the resto. Be a great truck to see at the Rausch Creek PA rally in October!

The only 1919s that FedGov still owns are in their museums. And the ones we gave other countries for Lend Lease in WWII. And the thousands we left behind in Vietnam are still technically ours. So you're going WAY back in time. The M939 series trucks started coming out in the early to mid...

Perhaps it's a Grove aircraft tug? There aren't many manufacturers for the big tugs, Google Search is your friend....

Helicopters from the 1940s-1950s all looked very odd to me. Part of the reason was most of them were piston-driven craft, which was limited in their lift capabilities. The airframe was designed around the engine, and shortcuts had to be made to limit the airframe's size and weight, to minimize...

Looks like a neat project! Taking the spare parts and making something totally new and useful out of it....

It's almost July, we have to start planning the Fall 2013 Rausch Creek PA rally for those who want to come out and wheel their MVs over rocks and dirt again! The poll questions give three options for weekends. Mid-to-late October has always worked out well for us. Any later and it's too cold...

Any updates?