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Here's some info on this years Gathering, you guys and gals are more then welcome to attend or bring something to show, I'll be posting the gun trucks that are comeing in a bit but I'll start with this----Hope to meet a bunch of ya------if your interested in these gun trucks you won't want to...

GREAT lookin truck and Thanks for posting the pics-----We'll have about 10 of em at the Gathering this year in Carlisle Pa.----You and your gang are more then welcome to come with or without yer truck, but again thanks for keeping the memory alive-----Driver

JoeM62---from what I remember most were tied down with cables one way or another---I did hear that the Colonel was bolted down, these trucks were terrible top heavy and real light on the front end, I remember doing some night convoys on King Kong---I sat on the rear with my legs across the rear...

Here's a couple photos----------Driver

Catapilliar yellow?---I guess maybe different units used different stuff but I would guess in the motor pool painting the stripes on the floor and the posts or anything you would want seen there would be more safety yellow around, granted there wern't many napa stores around, but the guys...

The Gun Truck replicas and cargo trucks that have the yellow nose that I know of use NAPA safety yellow # 6033---the stripe goes back 5 1/2 " with a 3/4 inch space and then a 3/4" stripe--kind of a rally stripe thing ---the 523rd put the second stripe on their trucks in 1970---some units put the...

If I may----Vietnam colors looked great, with the 8th groups yellow nose and the yellow headlights no 5 ton ever looked better in service------the truck you got looks great, your not that far away--maybe one of these days I'll get a better look at the ole girl----congrats on a great choice of...

Here is a photo I just copied off the Vietnam gun truck site, It was posted by Edd Pavlic, I believe it was taken outside the MP barracks in Phu Tai------I can't read the names cept there is that Proud Mary II again-------------Driver

I remember the first time I seen the Untouchable replica gun truck at the Veterans reunion in Kokomo IN.--I just stood there speechless, I ask if I could open the drivers door and when I did and it let out that certain squeel from being heavy with armor it was almost too much-----Thanks to every...

IRACinc out of Ohio has replicas---the aluminum recievers------Driver

I may know a couple guys also---even though the front shafts are removed it would free up a ton of resistance-----------Driver

I just talked to Randy--Most you guys probably already know this but the 5 ton bell housing is a ton different from the deuce bellhousing so you'd have a bunch of fab work to get that 5 ton bellhousing in a deuce---but still if you got a 5 ton multi--get that 6453 tranny----you'll love...

Scrap yards, old farm trucks like the old grain rigs and some old cement trucks---look for the old aux boxes Dana, Fuller, or Spicer---you can find them with 14% 17% even 26% over drive, and not only that but also with direct drive, under drive and a nutral I believe---Soooo when your running...

I too have been to Teds motor pool after an invite for me to see his vehicles---great guy---I enjoyed the tour and talking with him-----hope to get together with him this summer, ------------------Driver

Love dem graphics---------Driver

The Great Eve of Destruction was in some video used on the military channel on a show called weaponology---it was a wheeled armor show----it had other quads, some convoy, and regular gun truck shots during that portion------along with some dialog from Richard Killblane the Transportation Corps...

Great looking tribute truck, its bound to bring back memories to many gun truckers and help preserve that particular time in our history, THANK YOU for your time, energy, and expense in building a great looking truck----sure hope to see it one day-----Driver

Sometimes there is more talent in building something need specific rather then over kill--Randy could have built a hitch that would haul anything he could put back there--but then again why??? he could have built with that overkill in mind, like a 150 pound hitch instead of a 50 maybe 60 pound...

Well---I have seen the hitch---know what he whats to pull with it---and have seen it going down the road and back, every time---No sweat Randy---Ya did good--------Driver

Here are the ones I could find right off----In James Lyles second book The Hard Ride he has another photo and it LOOKS (??) like the bumper number on the drivers side is G 9 he also states the truck was with G Battery 65th Arty---I'll keep lookin----------Driver