drgreg
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A buddy and I picked-up a couple of CUCV's today. Mine is a M1009, his is a M1008. We won 3 trucks at a local auction, I did not think that I wanted a CUCV, but it happened.
It is a '85 with 36,000 miles, it has the normal WI body rot, but it is a overall solid truck with a clean engine bay and interior. The alts. were removed as was the top and tail gate. The VA used it for a welding truck, hence the missing top. They installed a make-shift steel and plexi-glass cab closure, that will have to do for now until I deside what I am going to do with the truck.
I installed the batteries and it fired right up. I took it for a spin around the area and it ran out good.
The IDIOTS at the VA, a 1000 acre mega-complex with thousands of employees, could not locate the keys for either truck. They said they had the keys but when I went to pick-up the truck last Thursday, they could not find them. I told the cheif idiot that they should be all the same key, but he said they were not. So we used a skid loader to load both trucks today and low and behold when we got the trucks home, I borrowed a key from my friends M1008 and it works. Now I have several coppies of the elusive CUCV key and will not be caught without one again.
Once again the really nice thing about this truck is (1) NO EUC, (2) local auction, 5 miles from my office, (3) no SF97 or title fees, and all for a total of $200, who said there are no cheap CUCV's around.
It is a '85 with 36,000 miles, it has the normal WI body rot, but it is a overall solid truck with a clean engine bay and interior. The alts. were removed as was the top and tail gate. The VA used it for a welding truck, hence the missing top. They installed a make-shift steel and plexi-glass cab closure, that will have to do for now until I deside what I am going to do with the truck.
I installed the batteries and it fired right up. I took it for a spin around the area and it ran out good.
The IDIOTS at the VA, a 1000 acre mega-complex with thousands of employees, could not locate the keys for either truck. They said they had the keys but when I went to pick-up the truck last Thursday, they could not find them. I told the cheif idiot that they should be all the same key, but he said they were not. So we used a skid loader to load both trucks today and low and behold when we got the trucks home, I borrowed a key from my friends M1008 and it works. Now I have several coppies of the elusive CUCV key and will not be caught without one again.
Once again the really nice thing about this truck is (1) NO EUC, (2) local auction, 5 miles from my office, (3) no SF97 or title fees, and all for a total of $200, who said there are no cheap CUCV's around.
