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that looks amazing man, looking forward to the finished product.

Finally got a chance to upload some piccys.

Here we have some good shots of the 230 tornado, and a look inside

Only the first and last piston appear to be stuck, and judging by the looks of the other 4, it shouldn't take much to revive this beast.

Hoookay. Now that thats all taken care of I've been able to get some work done over the past few days.

Firstly I decided to give the engine a good going over since i had'nt done that yet. Upon doing so I found the exhaust manafold was busted in two places.

Also tried to get the engine to rotate, but couldnt so i pulled the oil pan just to see if this engine was actually still alive. Upon inspection all pistons and cylinders are pretty much corrosion free. But the question remains why wont it rotate, but thats put off to the side for the time being since i still need a few engine componets anyways.

Next is the 'top', which consists of the windshield, arches and the homebuilt hardtop which has been all popriveted and welded together. The goal here, obviously, is to remove all welds and rivits to get it back to its original componets and im making good headway here

Unfortunatly the place I'm staying now has no internets and I cant upload pics from this computer, but fear not, they will be up as soon as I get a chance. Thats it for now folks but stay tuned... or whatever.

Whats the story on that track? Is that a post war modification, or a private dept. job? I've never seen anything like that before..

yea there' http://www.steelsoldiers.com and http://www.militaryphotos.net and of course there smaller vehicle specific forums which i call tell you if you want to know

this is quite the beautiful project piece, congrats mate!

Not as of yet unfortunately, i had to unexpectedly move out of my apartment and find a new place. got about a week of reorganizing but after that well be able to get back to work!

haha thats kinda funny. congrats, looks great man

It's gettin' close to tee shirt weather here, of course it snowed pretty hard about a week ago. As mv's go all I have now is the M715, which is under restoration and has a blog in the forum here. The family is gonna grow when i get done with school. Two and a half more months

Hey there Benji. Good to see more of us from the states joinin' up over here. I'm located about 20 minutes north of Columbus, Ohio. Maybe I'll See you at the Findley show?

Oshkosh M-ATV Ambulance

Polski-Fiat 618 Ambulance

I think this should count :-P

Swiss MO-05 w/ 'Anhanger'

Unfortunatly I dont remember what site I pulled this image from as it was a few years ago, but I remember old-boy said he paid $350 for the anhanger at a surplus store in Montana.

took the doors and seats off. found a rust hole behind the driver's seat.

one of 2 patches i need to make

the nifty rifle rack tucked behind the drivers seat

another shot of the Warner 4 Speed T98 transmission and Jeep I6 230 Tornado engine

the T98 is painted blue because we used it as a training aid at the school i go to. just thought id clear that up haha.

btw jimmy eng, the bowys at http://www.m715zone.com/vb/index.php can help you with finding a bellhousing that fits. forgot to mention that earlier

yea the plan is to do it up stock all nice and purty. the v8 conversions are fairly popular in the states to turn them into mud trucks. mine came with the original 230 and its its pretty good shape. parts are not uncommon, but not as common as you might think. there is a pretty sizable NOS parts stock from the old toledo plant, but as of now it remains elusive.

all im missing to make mine drivable (not road worthy :-P) is the distributer and the carter 1bbl.

Some pics of the tear down.

For some reason Oklahoma Forestry welded sewer grate between the bed and the tailgate.

Took about 5 minutes to get the engine unbolted.. HOWEVER, the max lift on our hoist was about an inch and a half too short. took me and the hippie another 45 minutes with some spare chain and a broken jack handle haha.

Thats it for tonight, but ill be stopin' at the shop tomorrow after school. well see what happens

Well its finally warm enough to start workin' on this beast again.

Got it delivered late last summer and had just enough time to tear it apart before the snow came and blocked access to the shop.

these are the pics i took the day it got delivered

The Oklahoma Forestry Service made all sorts of little useless modifications, and the dude they had welding... couldn't weld.

Other than that its' in surprisingly good shape. Not had a sticky bolt yet ether. Thought that was odd.. lol

anyone know anything about this?

the page says its danish WC-52 conversion.. sure is cool though

photo from http://miliblog.co.uk/?cat=146&nggpage=3&paged=10

about 3/4 the way down

M725 Ambulance (M715 Variant)

WC-54M, these bodies were built by boyertown

The Belgian Minerva-Land Rover

id rather get a few pounds of sand from an mv than the big spooky alien orange spider that lunged at me from the engine of my 715 lol

Aussie LRP 6x6

Aussie RCL vehicle.

any ideas?

from http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmc_cckw/

found an AD for Hug dump trucks. too bad we cant read the fine print. looks to be a different model alltogether, but i figured someone would find it interesting

Any ideas on if those lend-leased went to the UK or the USSR?

Anyone have any information on 'Hug' trucks used by the US. i stumbled across few pictures but cant find any real information (as per usual).

From what i can find the wrecker variant is known as a 51-6, while the cargo is a 50-1.

any info is much appreciated

Thanks all!

-montie, i have a 1969 M715. Picked it last summer and just started to get into it before it got to cold. i made an album if you feel like checkin it out