Just What Everyone Needs: Army Truck

[Fleetw00d]

My neighbor's son showed up today with this. 1968 Army truck. He bought it from an army base in South Carolina. He drove his 5 series BMW down, then found a loading dock of the right height and drove the bimmer onto the back of the truck for the drive home. Tubro flex fuel, supposedly runs on anything that will burn. I need to get some video - it sounds healthy! I'm just glad he doesn't live with his parents any more - my bedroom is on that side of the house.

[Ralphie]

Holy mackerel lol. These things are beasts. I drove one when I was in years ago. What is he going to do with it?

[H311RA151N]

Friend in high school had one. Multi-fuel. Could piss in the fuel tanks and as long as it had a ratio of around 50% diesel it would run like no ones business. Can ford a river with water in the cab up past your waist. Very cool trucks.

[Grumpys93]

Lol what's the point in having a boat then?

[NAiL05]

They are so cheap to pickup. My buddy just picked up a 5 ton. Paid like 7700 with shipping and paperwork lol.

[H311RA151N]

Boats? Who needs a boat when you have an M923A2.

I found one for $5500 once. Don't remember the version but it was a 3 ton truck. For 5500 it needed a lot of work but ran and drove.

[dhill_cb7]

Wow that is incredible! What a find. I don't think I have ever seen a civilian own one of these vehicles. Come to think of it I did not even know that they were allowed to purchase them.

I believe it was asked before but what are his plans for it?

Looks like it needs some TLC. The army probably just let it rot in the elements.

[AccordWarrior]

True story here:

When my dad was in the National Guard Reserve in the late 1960's, his base was somewhere in NY that he had to go to once a week and two weeks in the summer. He and a buddy snuck off base one weekend and drove one of those down to MA so that he could take my Mom out on a date. Apparently he actually showed up to her place driving it thinking it wouldn't be a big deal.

[Raf99]

i recently watched a roadkill / finigin's garage episode where they went to a auction to buy one of these. The lot had tons of these for sale that one could buy. I guess army surplus for these is not open to the public.

[CyborgGT]

So how did he get the Bimmer down once home?

[Fleetw00d]

So how did he get the Bimmer down once home?

Found a loading dock of the right height and drove it off.

[Honda_Lady]

I've seen a couple of these around here for sale, never asked how much because I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.