Oddball deuce or?????

[ccf460]

Yeah, I was really hoping it was original, but seems like someone would recognize it.

 

[topo]

The axles look a lot like the timken axles and spring set up under the 1943 White 666.

 

[porkysplace]

I agree on the windshield.
I googled international red diamond engine...that's it! Anyone know if they were ever used in a MV?

Yes IHC built some 5 tons with them , also a lot of WWII trucks used them.

 

[ccf460]

Maybe this poor thing is all/ mostly military?

 

[Jeepsinker]

Sounds like it could be an IHC built 5 ton. Did you look at any of the data plates on the dash? Who knows, it may even be a rare one off, or experimental truck or something.

 

[ccf460]

No, i just bought it and the M46A2. Next week my wrecker driver will bring them home. But, i will be going back over there tomorrow to pull front driveshafts and will get more info on it

 

[Jeepsinker]

Cool. Post up some pics of the M46 here while your at it if you could.

 

[Warthog]

Here are a couple of posts for the windshield.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?83092-M37-Hardtop-Question
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?104738-M50-Series-Brush-Truck-Conversions

 

[JasonS]

I looked at buying an FWD earlier this year but passed on it. Here are some pics:

 

[JasonS]

Red diamonds were (are?) also used in tractor pullers.

 

[ccf460]

Jason,
The engine looks similar. The axles not so much. My rears look like top loader rockwells, and the front looks diferent also.

 

[porkysplace]

I looked at buying an FWD earlier this year but passed on it. Here are some pics:View attachment 506743View attachment 506735View attachment 506736View attachment 506737View attachment 506738View attachment 506739View attachment 506740View attachment 506741View attachment 506742View attachment 506744

That's a Dodge cab that FWD used till the early 1970's.

 

[maddawg308]

Strip it of every military part that's salvageable, then any part off the rest that might be of use to you or someone, and scrap the rest. It's not an experimental deuce or something really rare. I've seen cobbled together trucks all over the place that look military; it just turns out that many farmers and other agricultural users of these trucks are very resourceful people, and weld together anything that will stick out of whatever parts they have laying around.

 

[Warthog]

If it is a Red Diamond engine (looks like one), there are many people looking for them. They really want the split manifolds.

I had a IH Fire truck with the Red Diamond engine.

 

[73m819]

The INC. military gassers (m62, m54, m139) had Continental 6602s, a 602 ci six cylinder. The red diamond is a old engine that was even used at the of the WW2, this engine is one of the BEST engines that INC has built, it is a torque monster, like the 6602

 

[DeucesWild11]

Eastern Surplus is selling new windshield sets like what you see in the OP.

 

[JasonS]

That's a Dodge cab that FWD used till the early 1970's.

I don't think so. I have looked at IHC trucks with that exact cab. From what I have read on the internet, IHC cabs were used on several makes of trucks.

 

[porkysplace]

I don't think so. I have looked at IHC trucks with that exact cab. From what I have read on the internet, IHC cabs were used on several makes of trucks.

They were dodge cabs we have upgraded at least a half a dozen to the Paystar IHC cabs . My buddy has run nothing but FWD concrete mixers since the late 1950's still has a few on the road and at least 15 sitting .

 

[JasonS]

They were dodge cabs we have upgraded at least a half a dozen to the Paystar IHC cabs . My buddy has run nothing but FWD concrete mixers since the late 1950's still has a few on the road and at least 15 sitting .

http://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1386007210

it was known as the Comfo-Vision cab and was used by IHC from 1950 on L Line, R Line, S Line, V Line, heavy duty F and M series and Western L and R Line models built at Emeryville, California. It was used by Diamond T from 1950 to around 1958-59. After White bought Reo in 1957 and DT in 1958, the C-V cab was replaced by either the Reo cab or Autocar Driver Cab on DTs. White Motor Co. had bought Autocar in 1953.
Other manufacturers to use the C-V cab were Cline, Duplex, Hendrickson, Sicard, FWD, Oshkosh, and Leyland/Canada.

 

[JasonS]

Note the caption for the FWD truck: http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t644/ronhorse34/Rmodelcabsthree_zpsf845af32.jpg