Made it home with the deuce and no problems. This was my first deuce recovery and 350 miles to home. I had driven a buddys deuce before but that was my only experience with deuces. I have been watching auctions for over a year and finally bid 2 months ago. The deuce is a 1970 AM General W/W and 21,000 miles. The truck had a B4 condition rating so I decided to take a chance. We checked the oil, hooked up a slave cable (Thanks Ray at G.L.) and it started right up. While it was warming up we checked it out. Good winch, 7 New tires, New cargo cover with bows, an alluminum ladder for loading the back, Heater, Spring seat, Turbo, Air shift front axle, Glad hand air hose with chuck, Jack, Lug wrench and some misc. hand tools.
The truck has a sticker that says no radioactive material is present but the sticker has been on the truck for a while. (faded in sun) I don't know why the truck would need inspection again. Mabey they aren't telling us everything. (or anything at all)
We drove off the base and fueled up. Headed to buy new batteries but when we shut the truck off it easily fired back up so we just checked fluids and brakes and started driving. The route was Ellsworth AFB (Rapid city SD) to Laramie WY going past Mt. Rushmore. Driving the deuce through the black hills was a blast. The following pics are from the trip. The last 2 are a missle silo on a dirt road outside wheatland WY. I hope nobody saw me taking pics!
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I grew up in the Black Hills, sure wish I could convince my wife that the winters there arent any worse than here Kansas. I'd move back in a heart beat.
I wanna go home
