From: 69barracuda@mchsi.com
Date: Sun Apr 02 2006 - 19:00:58 PDT
That's the cab...but graft on a standard passenger bus like body on with a
single dual wheel axle out back. I think it had a single swinging door on the
pass side, not a bi-fold like current buses do.
And it has the brush guard too (or did the last time I saw it)
Rob
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'68 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback
'69 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback
'69 Dart 270 4dr
'05 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
'03 GMC Savanah 3500
'47 Farmall "H"
'67-'69 Barracuda Owners Group
MVPA #17365
Ridgecrest Ca.
Ebay ID "68barracuda225"
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> Did it look like this?
>
> APB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <69barracuda@mchsi.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:47 PM
> Subject: [MV] Odd WWII GMC or Chevy
>
>
> | Lurker Rob here
> |
> | A while back I spied a strange looking C.O.E GMC bus looking thing lurking
> in a
> | small town out here in the Mojave Desert. At least I think it's a GMC,
> maybe a
> | Chevy 1.5 T based. Anyway, it looks like a bus, is 4 wheel drive, has the
> blunt
> | snout of a COE, wire mesh screen over the windows...and packed full of
> cr*p,
> | sitting in a yard full of more stuff. I didn't have my camera with me or I
> | would have snapped a pic of it. It looks very WWII ish..still OD under all
> the
> | dirt and grime and still had a star on it's nose (I think, it was pretty
> hard
> | to tell)
> |
> | If SWMBO and the budget ever lets me have another OD toy it has to be
> | usefull...so, with a big family, a bus like vehicle (A Carryall or Command
> car
> | is out of the question due to the Barret-Jackson like prices) would fit
> the
> | bill.
> |
> | The next time I'm in the area I'll snap some pics of it, but if anybody
> has any
> | idea what the heck I'm blathering on about....or a link to a photo (I've
> | scoured the CCKW page and everything else Google yakked up...nada, zip,
> zilch!)
> | I'd appreciate it.
> |
> | Thanks in advance
> |
> | Rob
> |
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> | '69 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback
> | '69 Dart 270 4dr
> | '05 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
> | '03 GMC Savanah 3500
> | '47 Farmall "H"
> | '67-'69 Barracuda Owners Group
> | MVPA #17365
> | Ridgecrest Ca.
> | Ebay ID "68barracuda225"
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