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Good eye my friend, yes data tags says wo/w I'm assuming that possibly the county highway department that had it installed the winch, frame extensions and linkage on it.

Troop seats holes in bed is all I really see other than antenna mounts. The troop seats themselves have some holes but not sure they've always been with the truck by the paint. There is a cable passage between the cab and bed

Would the radio set have been in the bed of the truck or would it have had a com shelter of some sort?

Thank you so much for the info, tires all dates Goodyear 1954 unfortunately engine is gone so original generator all gone too but I agree this one is probably going to be one of the easier trucks to get back together

Ok guys I recently got a new to me M-37 project truck at auction, it is probably the best shape candidate that I've seen. Engine is out of it, there was one in the bed on a stand. It obviously isn't correct as it has 6 volt equipment on it. I also got another engine in the round metal military...

Early 1951 M-51 dump truck, fresh restoration wearing cargo cover and troop seats

Been working on getting the M-51 ready for painting. Mad dash just a couple of weeks to get it done for the Portland Indiana MVPA show. Got them all lined up along the tracks so I have room to start painting next week. Nevermind the bobcat and the bucket truck lol

These lights are the omnivolt models and should be good for 12-24 volts without any mods. Just make u a pigtail adapter for military to civilian truck and they work just fine

Definitely doing an oil and filter change, ordered vented caps for the fillers to hopefully remedy the situation from happening again. I will pull plugs to take a look and fog them to replace lubrication washed off my the gasoline. Thank you for the insights

M51 with new fuel tank on it, came to find it today with a ton of pressure on it from thermal expansion. Had a vent hooked up to the top of the tank, a non-vented cap. Found it had pushed a ton of fuel into the engine oil pan talking gallons. Drained everything, checked vent with a vacuum pump...

Now that's a herd of goats

www.taticaltruck.com I talked to him at Findlay show. Jeff symanski

Someone at the Findlay show I talked to told me they had some of those. Let me see if I can find his contact info

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Round 4. Great show very nice venue. Lots of friendly people, great meeting new friends and catching up with old ones

Round 3

Round 2

Here's some Findlay show pics. Thank you my photographer Joely

Thank you, we had a great time with the show well worth all the hard work getting the truck ready

Good day, good trip up, lots of networking and parts gathering and enjoying the day. Darn green disease it's running rampant here lol