cool deuce pic of the day

[Monster Man]

Originally posted by big daddy

Man, I love these pictures.Alright I'm new to this whole scene but could someone post some more pictures and maybe some info behind these gun trucks.Also what about some more 5 ton pics? Thanks

http://www.guntrucks.com/
http://groups.msn.com/VietnamGuntrucks
http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/JulAug03/gun_trucks.htm
http://134.198.33.115/brown/brown.htm

most of the gun trucks were 5 tons, but since it's a deuce thread I didn't want to get off topic Apparently there is only 1 authentic vietnam gun truck left in existence, "Eve of Destruction"

 

[big mike]

<img src="http://www.njfourwheelers.com/pictures/photogallery6/images/duece02.jpg" border="0">
I saw this happen. the truck was sinking each time the drunks in the back would jump off the troop rack. BTW thats not a lake, its actually a giant mud puddle under some high tension wires
<img src="http://www.njfourwheelers.com/pictures/photogallery6/images/duece04.jpg" border="0">

 

[stefos]

Speaking of water crossing.

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[Longhunter7]

Stefos!

Welcome to Steel Soldiers! It is good to see the members in Europe joining in!

Have a Happy Holiday season! <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_cool.gif" alt="Cool">

 

[BCR226]

Here are some links to some pics from the Leesburg 4th of july parade in Virginia this year. My 2.5 is the one plastered with the support our troops banners at the bottom...

I'd post the pics but for some reason the pics won't show.

Mike

http://www.leesburg-hdra.org/parade/parade-Pages/Image33.html

http://www.leesburg-hdra.org/parade/parade-Pages/Image34.html

http://www.leesburg-hdra.org/parade/parade-Pages/Image35.html

 

[big mike]

its not a deuce, but an equally cool experimental M151 project. the pic is too big to post here, so you gotta use the url link
http://www.tnjmurray.com/forsale_photos/xm408-2.jpg

 

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[3]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Well, can't see much deuce but when it's time for a 2yr old to sleep, not much stops him!</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/3]</font id="green">

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[Desert Rat]

Ken;
My three year old is about the same way! He loves riding shotgun whenever he can, awake or sleeping. BTW, I love the Indiana University cup cubby! Go Big Red! Anyway I'm feeling much better now. The kids gave me one rough flu to fight. Also, check your PM too.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Good Eye on the IU koozie. I'm afraid to report that it no longer lives, got crushed by the deuce. Belive it or not I remember exactly where and when I bought that one. Just to let you know, I had that since 1991. Mighta been the oldest koozie!

 

[Desert Rat]

Ken,
Sorry about the koozy<img src="emoticons/icon_smile_sad.gif" alt="Sad">! Sounds like you need another then! Shal I make arrangements?

 

[Monster Man]

not sure if this is a deuce or not- front wheel positioning appears to be a 5 ton, but it's mostly obscured and I see no exhaust stack. Could it be a gas powered deuce? <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_shrug.gif" alt="Shrug">

<img src="http://academic.uofs.edu/faculty/gramborw/atav/devil.jpg" border="0">

 

[stefos]

It is a drop side 5ton. Look at the end of the cargo bed. 5ton's have an extention at the back of the bed. Anyway it is a nice picture.

 

[steelsoldiers]

As far as I know all Nam era gun trucks were 5'ers. The only deuce gun trucks I have seen are the replicas that folks are putting together these days. Those were some bad machines and the only thing that kept the Viet-Cong from shooting the crap out of every supply convoy.

 

[Monster Man]

Originally posted by steelsoldiers

As far as I know all Nam era gun trucks were 5'ers. The only deuce gun trucks I have seen are the replicas that folks are putting together these days.

on page 1 and 3 of this thread I posted a few gen-u-ine deuce gun trucks. I pulled 'em off of vietnam photo collection pages. <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve"> Seen a lot of quad 50 deuces though

 

[Monster Man]

<img src="http://www.guntruck.com/Resources/M398Lacrosse01.jpeg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.guntruck.com/Resources/M398Launcher02.jpeg" border="0">

<img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve">

 

[steelsoldiers]

Originally posted by Monster Man
on page 1 and 3 of this thread I posted a few gen-u-ine deuce gun trucks. I pulled 'em off of vietnam photo collection pages. <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve"> Seen a lot of quad 50 deuces though

No kidding? Hmmph, well you learn something every day.

Sweet missle trucks!!

 

[big mike]

one would think that the intense heat from a launching S.A.M. would burn the soft top

 

[Monster Man]

<img src="http://www.buschandbusch.com/guntruck5.jpg" border="0">
http://www.wood.army.mil/ENGRMAG/PDFs for Oct-Dec 03/Saul.pdf

<img src="http://www.buschandbusch.com/guntruck1.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.buschandbusch.com/guntruck2.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.buschandbusch.com/guntruck3.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.buschandbusch.com/guntruck4.bmp" border="0">

this site is truly fascinating, and there's a ton more pics that are questionable if they were deuces:

http://groups.msn.com/VietnamGunTrucks/

regardless, they are amazing trucks, I can't believe only ONE survived

 

[Monster Man]

Originally posted by big mike

one would think that the intense heat from a launching S.A.M. would burn the soft top

this might have been their response to that problem <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve"><img src="emoticons/icon_smile_rotfl.gif" alt="ROTFL">

<img src="http://www.guntruck.com/Resources/M387GMLPhoto01.jpeg" border="0">

in any case the Lacrosse wasn't a big success, they only used it a couple years

 

[stefos]

I have pic of a rare truck too. It is my V17A MTQ waitting for a restoration. It doesn't look good but it runs and stops fine it has no major rust and most of all it has no milles. The only problem is that it is a gas OA331 model and a gallon of gas is over 3.5$ here.

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