And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's a Dodge, although it's missing it's nameplate on the hood. It's a personnel carrier. Mine's a weapons carrier (pickup). Dodge also made ambulances, which were often on the TV show MASH. They were referred to as a half ton, but you could generally double that for civilian use. Flathead six, four speed with a compound low and a single speed New Process transfer case. The parking break was a drum mounted behind the transmission with a band that was probably 8" in diameter that wrapped around the entire drum, actuated by a two foot lever that sticks through the floor next to the transfer case lever. The neat thing about the parking brake was that when the 4WD was engaged the brake pretty much locked up all four wheels. Hell of stout. Oh yeah, almost forgot. It had a foot starter. When you'd start it you'd toe the starter, heel the gas pedal and work the manual choke with your right hand. It took a little coordination.
You're correct Old Guy, they did and I forgot all about that. I think they were a ragtop version of the weapons carrier but I've never seen one and I don't know what they're called. I'll have to do some research.
Kind of looks like he's running aircraft tires on it. Used to use them on my tractor, and on beach jeeps for the sand - 40+ plies, weigh a ton, never go flat, never get stuck in sand.
9.00 x 16 non-directionals. Best tire ever made for mud and snow. They squeeze the packed material out on the next rotation and leave little bars of material on either side of the tracks you leave behind. Awesome.
Wow! I'll be in my rack...............
ReplyDeleteIt's a Dodge, although it's missing it's nameplate on the hood. It's a personnel carrier. Mine's a weapons carrier (pickup). Dodge also made ambulances, which were often on the TV show MASH.
ReplyDeleteThey were referred to as a half ton, but you could generally double that for civilian use. Flathead six, four speed with a compound low and a single speed New Process transfer case. The parking break was a drum mounted behind the transmission with a band that was probably 8" in diameter that wrapped around the entire drum, actuated by a two foot lever that sticks through the floor next to the transfer case lever. The neat thing about the parking brake was that when the 4WD was engaged the brake pretty much locked up all four wheels. Hell of stout.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. It had a foot starter. When you'd start it you'd toe the starter, heel the gas pedal and work the manual choke with your right hand. It took a little coordination.
Didn't they also make an open version, maybe with a canvas top? I seem to remember seeing something like that in my youth (a few years after the War).
DeleteYou're correct Old Guy, they did and I forgot all about that. I think they were a ragtop version of the weapons carrier but I've never seen one and I don't know what they're called. I'll have to do some research.
DeleteKind of looks like he's running aircraft tires on it. Used to use them on my tractor, and on beach jeeps for the sand - 40+ plies, weigh a ton, never go flat, never get stuck in sand.
ReplyDeletePerfect for Waste Land Weekend.
ReplyDeleteLove it, liked stock tires better.
ReplyDelete9.00 x 16 non-directionals. Best tire ever made for mud and snow. They squeeze the packed material out on the next rotation and leave little bars of material on either side of the tracks you leave behind. Awesome.
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