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Well, here is my latest bring home item.
M37 remnants
Will probably resell at some point but i just literally saved it from going to the junk man, still has the transfer case and such. Extremely rusty ,frame stretched,

A lot of that thing could be rebuilt with flat sheet metal. A little rough sheet metal looks just fine under flat olive drab.

Cool find! We saved a closed cab cckw that a guy wanted for the fenders and scrap the rest. It has a chopped frame, 4 instead of 6 wheels, and a manure spreader on it- which is rusted out, and the truck isnt much better. We also saved a neat rusted hobart welder and generator from the 40s. We saw an old rock crusher being chopped up for scrap and a lot of old neat farm equipment along with it.
The former owner was crying when she found out what was happening to most of the things after the auction.

TXGOAT2 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 12, 2025 6:48 pm

A lot of that thing could be rebuilt with flat sheet metal. A little rough sheet metal looks just fine under flat olive drab.

I got all the trash cleaned off the back of it, and accessed it a bit the other day. hood had a solid sheet of fiberglass on it, alot of bondo in the corners, and the entire top of the cowl is gone,what's there is a bolted on piece of sheet metal.
I have since located, a mile down the road, a 49 power wagon that will sadly be stripped for it's body to go on a 2005 dodge chassis. i want to stay connected with the fellow because the engine is similar enough to fit this.When i first decided to try to save this, i didn't know it was quite so rusty. but my plan originally was to put a 300 ci inline ford 6 cylinder in it. still might,aint gave up. thinking of selling was a first impulse after finding all the rust.
And it was a Air force truck, so blue would be it's correct color.
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