AndrewH
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I have recently acquired an interesting critter and I am looking for any and all insight, information and leads to get it back together. It is a 1967 XM778 Diamond REO truck Division of White motor Co, built 2 1/2 ton truck. I'll post pictures and let them do most of the talking. I am after any information of this truck. I have never seen another one and the great and wise Google search doesn't reveal much. I have found a paragraph in Fred Crismon's book, "US Military Wheeled Vehicles" showing the XM-778 at the Yuma Proving Ground in July 1967. As far as I can tell, I am the second owner after Uncle Sam. This truck most recently serving as a tanker truck with the White Lake Fire Authority and maintained by the DNR Garage out of Gaylord Michigan. The truck did come with the DNR service records going back to 1970. The Fire Service took of the body and modified the truck to suit their needs, as is usual. As we all know, fire trucks take a beating and the records show numerous repairs related to off road damage. The truck has taken it well and actually runs and drives pretty well around the yard. My intentions are to put the truck back together as best I can with the information I can get. It appears to have been equipped with a thermostatically controlled radiator cover in the Wheeled Vehicles book. This may be a stretch, but I am led to believe this was an arctic prototype which is especially neat to me because I have wanted to build an arctic truck for some time.
If anyone has information, pictures, manuals, seen one, poked at one or anything I would love to hear about it. Thanks!
If anyone has information, pictures, manuals, seen one, poked at one or anything I would love to hear about it. Thanks!