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Took my 85 year old Mom as a passenger in the Doylestown, Pa. Memorial Day parade monday. My late father was a veteran of the Korean war, he would have appreciated it.
Picked this up Monday. M1008 ex Brush truck. Has Body lift, inner fenders removed for when it had the water tank. Used to have a Hale pump
on the front that they threw away. Poor Park Ranger thought the steering box was a PTO unit. Runs and drives, always a bonus. Parts truck for
other projects...
MN1028a1 that actually is in decent shape for the price. Only missing one alternator and batteries. Something else to play with as time permits. 480 mile round trip to recover yesterday.
Picked this up with a bunch of other CUCV and CUCV II paper yesterday at Aberdeen. I've had these for civilian vehicles but first time for a CUCV.
As you can see this was for a M1031, dated 6/3/86. Shipped from Flint Assembly plant to Warren, Michigan
Picked this up yesterday. Not many left in this condition in the Northeast at least. University of Maryland farm Truck. Pretty rust free M1028, all original, lots of dirt but runs and drives. Don't think it ever went out on the road, was used for hauling water tanks. Spring semi- restoration...
Lined up all 4 running CUCVs and the K30 dump for a group shot. K30 dump is ex Military also, started life as a base fire truck. Garage still full though! Happy Memorial Day.
Just bought a couple more cucvs. This one in particular from the Pa Dept Forestry. Truck does not cycle when you turn on the key, but actually started after sitting a long time. Can not find a glow plug card. They had an M1009 and a parts truck set up the same way. Thoughts? Thanks
If only GL did it this way.
For $25.00 at Manheim auction they will load your vehicle with this John Deere. So I paid the $25 to have a non-running M1008 loaded on my trailer. A no brainer in wet 28 degree weather with no helper. In and out in 45 minutes.
And btw, people complain about GL fees...
Got my Father's M151a2s to run today after a long hard winter. Sadly he passed away in February but I'm taking his place in the local Memorial day parade with one of them. Thought I would share. One is a 71 and one a 77. One a Ford the other a AMG. Thanks to Rick Theirs on advice on getting them...
If this is posted somewhere else I apologize, remove it, but I don't remember seeing it. Pretty interesting. Folder is dated 1982, revised 1/83.
Note in these specs that M1031 has NP208 transfer case and not NP205. There are 5 loose spec pages for each type of CUCV (A,B,C,D,E) with this that I...
Finally got a trailer to go with my CUCV. AMA enterprises M101a2/M116
Belonged to the local EMS in Lansdale Pa. Even came with a title and 2 brand new tires.
Went to change starters on the M1028a1 today. Found it was missing the bracket. Upon further inspection it COULDN'T have had a bracket as there is no embossing in the block above the freeze plug like there should be. Have had about 20 CUCVs and have 2 engines in the garage and they've all had or...
My Dad's new ride, a 1953 M37 firetruck. Looks really clean and runs really quiet. Got it near Erie Pa. He's 79, a Korean War vet and says he always wanted what he drove when he was in the service. He's the one who got me started in the CUCV thing too, God bless him.
Visited and bought a complete CUCV bed from Eastern Surplus today. Very good experience with the salesman named Caswell. Luckily went with the M1028a1. Had to pull a deuce out of a snowbank first (bed was in back of truck and truck didn't run) . Wonder when or if my truck ever did that before...
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