What does the X stand for in XM816? - Page 2 - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

Marinawreckers · 01-02-2011, 17:26

Thanks too all. Clinto, thanks for the links. I am not exactly computer literate, but not illiterate either. I did initially check the archives, entering different variations of the question from something as simple as "x" to "difference between x and xm", always with no results. I looked under "advanced search". Apparently I did something wrong. How did you find these posts?

Capt Pat · 01-02-2011, 18:51

I think most of the guys and gals on this site learned the terminology from the books. There are several out that explain the nominclature of the numbers used in the truck, on the truck and about the truck. There are alot of particulars and they have changed over the years from pre world war two on. The trucks coming out now would be hard on the guys who decided the nomenclature back in WWII like the DUKW, each letter means something, yet they get a common use of DUCK out of it, Some of the collector groups such as the MVPA (Military Vehicle Preservation Association) among others as well as advertisers in the two printed magazines dedicated to the hobby in the states sell them. Good luck with your machines, you'll learn to love them. (its the color, causes a strange mental malady in most people) Also welcome aboard. By the way, I use mine all the time working around our boats, (all military too) especially the M series wrecker.

clinto · 01-02-2011, 19:44

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Originally Posted by Marinawreckers

How did you find these posts?

It took me a second-the search here is..... how do I say this nicely.... not optimal?

I tried searching by "experimental" and a couple other ways, but eventually didn't find what I was after. I finally just did a search, in all forums, for "XM818" and then XM813". I went through all the results and picked out the ones that covered this topic. I knew including "XM818" would net any question that had to do with the X designator.

There is a thread up and running where we've encouraged people who are searching for a particular topic but aren't having luck to post in. Post what you are looking for and one of us will try and find it and explain how they found it.

Link: trouble searching

gimpyrobb · 01-02-2011, 20:12

Welcome to the site. I agree, post some pics if you get a chance. Looks like we have another member to the "wrecker club"!

Marinawreckers · 01-02-2011, 20:22

I don't have any photos of the M816's yet, other than the GL ones. I just cleared EUC approval (5 year re-up, took forever). They should be here this week. I got them at the giant Fort Meade auction in November. These photos are crappy, taken with my cell phone, but it shows the M818 that we have used without incident for four years now.