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Looks like the U 8144T. That was the 5-6 ton tractor version. It was mostly used as the bridge pontoon tractor truck. Whacha gonna do with it?

The frame , bumper support and bumper were each made of 3/8ths steel. We think there was some hardened material because we hit some hard spots in the bumper supports. OK, for this job we used some Snap on Thunder bits and a Snap On slow speed air drill for the pilot hole and secondary hole...

The York Hoover van bodies were truck brand specific. In the radio setup picture the trucks are the GMC cabovers. The GMC cabover van bodies had square rear wheel well openings. The Autocar van bodies had round rear wheel well openings. In the first picture there is also a picture of the...

I was going to just use an M36 A2C (16 foot) bed originally........Then I did some measuring. 17' 6" from the back of the cab aft to stern of the frame with no bumperetts. So my overall length is about 18 feet. Then we measured the rear axle width. It is wider than 8 feet or 96 inches by about...

While that would be awesome.......Tillie only likes to go about 35 MPH.......She will creep up toward 45 if you throw her off a cliff. And she is a rough ridin SOB. So not a good recovery vehicle in the modern age.......But a cool idea.

Here is some more of "Tillie the toiler". I will likely never find the original box for the back of the truck. But we will keep looking. I have a flatbed stakeside bed with troop seats to put on. It is a modern bed for hauling containers and such. But I can make it look old with some creative...