From: Paul A. Thomas (bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 18:33:34 PST
How much not to tell the Mrs for a week or two?
Perhaps a ride or even chance to try the boom should I be in that region
one day?
<BG>
I know it's a long shot, however if the owner wants to dump it for a grand
I'll ( shipping and all, big of me eh? ) come out there tomorrow. Wo cares
if it runs or not? ... Then again, I'd better see what the differences are
between that and the M543A2.. Then again again: Did anyone see the
Military's latest wrecker, the one based on the large, not yet for resale
to we poor collectors... drat! I spend much more time at work than here so
my IE links are all there... a couple weeks ago someone was kind enough to
post a link to this Mil Contractors web movie about this truck, and they
had a wrecker version!! Too cool.
Y'all can keep the fighter jets and aircraft carriers: I want the wrecker
version of that truck!
Oops. Time for herbal tea and chanting. Can't think of that
truck. oooommmmmmm.................
:} Paul
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At 03:31 PM 2/18/2004, you wrote:
>Hello list-
>
>The other day the misses and I were out driving around
>looking for some acreage to buy. We are getting tired
>of city living and would like to move to the outskirts
>of town. Well, we were drinving down a road I have
>drove down everyday for the past 4 years and we
>decided to take a right onto an intersecting road.
>After going down the road for about a mile we come
>upon this old truck sitting in a farmer's field
>surrounded by trees. I quickly stop the jeep and look
>long and hard at it. I notice it looks like a
>M-series wrecker. My wife says "How nice another army
>truck." Well I keep on driving so as not to let her
>think I am interested in it, and vow to come back at a
>latter date, sans wife.
>The very next day I decide to stop back and look a
>little closer. Sure enough it is a military wrecker.
>Hmmmm, a 5-ton wrecker. A 5-ton Gas engine powered
>military wercker. Wait a minute... Why is there a
>fifth wheel on the back of this truck? Whoever owns
>this truck ruined it I thought. So I head back home
>to consult the standard catalog of Military Vehicles,
>2nd Edition (Thanks David Doyle!!) and to my suprise
>I find the very truck I was looking at earlier in the
>day, but without the mounds of snow.
>The catalog says it is a M246 Truck, Tractor, Wrecker
>and were designed to haul a trailer or to to general
>wrecker work.
>So far that is all I know. A search on the internet
>has turned up little and I would like to know more
>about this unique vehicle. Can anybody help me out?
>Let me hear your war stories if any one of you used
>one of these in the service or own.owned one of them
>in your lifetime.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Buettner
>Appleton, WI
>Dodge WC-63
>
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