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York Hoover van body I found a couple of photos of the York Hoover Van body. The trucks they are mounted on in the radar set up photo are not Autocar's, but you can see the difference in use of the van body with one for the generator and the other for the "electronics". If anyone just...

I think all CCKW/CCK bed acessories would be too small. Tillie is almost 18 feet from the back of the cab to the rear of the frame. The bumper hits most people about in the nipples. We checked out a CCKW shop van body early on, but the wheel pockets in the body (built for 7.50 x 20 tandum duals)...

While a good idea, Jollyroger and I have joined forces and purchased an M816 Wrecker from Goverment Liquidators. An M819 might have been a better pruchase because of the longer boom and 5th wheel, but maybe another day. "So many to own, so little time"

Tillie's tow bar Got this photo of Jollyroger's Autocar and the tow bar this morning. The truck has the name Tillie on the cowl, which we assume was from the comic character "Tillie the Toiler" popular in some circles during WW2.

That for sure is a 5 to 6 Ton Autocar. I will tell Jollyroger you have some parts and manuals. He did get a complete set of shop manuals with the truck when he bought it. It also came with a spare T-case. We found the serial number which encorporates the model number on the passenger side frame...

The tractors were a shorter wheelbase. Most tractors were the 4 to 5 ton front axle except for the U8144-T which was a special tractor for the bridge hauling semi-trailer. The U8144-T used the 5 to 6 ton front axle the same as the U8144-A. Notice the larger front axle hub on the u8144-A which...

Thank you sir. As best as we can determine, there were only 607 manufactured (and that was the years 1941 through 1945). At this point it seems there are only 3 known to exist. Jollyroger managed to pick this up from Fred LaPerrier's collection.

Jollyroger wanted to be able to tow his 1941 Autocar U-8144-A with one of his 800 series 5 tons. This was accomplished by stealing some lift shackle brackets off a parts M54 and mounting them on the Autocar front bumper and frame. The other option was to use some M109 brackets, but the M54...