Follow our Museum's guntruck project

Follow the construction of our Vietnam era guntruck at the Kansas Museum of Military History.

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sweet! why did you guys use a dropside bed? and also how do i go abouts joining a muesum i want to join the ft lewis muesum in wa state and volunteer. they have about 8-10 tanks and various other stuff. they are remodeling until next year though

I had originally purchased this truck about 8 years ago from DRMO before GL. I sold it to a coworker a few years later who about a year ago decided that he needed more space in his drive way so donated it, in short we went with a dropside beacase it is what we had. Worked out great.

Those guys at Ft. Lewis are a great group, helped us out with some tech advice several years ago.

Very nice work guys, its nice to see other museums restoring artifacts to an operational level, not just a flower pot.

srodocker said:

sweet! why did you guys use a dropside bed? and also how do i go abouts joining a muesum i want to join the ft lewis muesum in wa state and volunteer. they have about 8-10 tanks and various other stuff. they are remodeling until next year though

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Any chance you get to go work at a museum on this stuff (either volunteer or paid, doesn't matter to me personally) the benefits you reap from youf time spent there are well worth the effort.

yea i dont need to be paid just drool over the MV's is fine with me

New Pictures of our Guntruck at KMMH

New Pictures of our Guntruck at the Kansas Museum of Military History in Augusta, Kansas. Come see it in person at the 2010 Kansas Steel Soldiers Rally on May 15th

SWEET!!!

srodocker said:

why did you guys use a dropside bed?

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Iyaayas184 said:

...we went with a dropside because it is what we had.

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On page 8 of James Lyles' Vietnam gun truck book The Hard Ride, he states that they based the 2.5t gun-trucks on all the M35 versions including the M35A2C drop-side vehicles, so it is accurate!

Congrats on a great project. A buddy of mine, Quonsethut, has built a gun truck and did a splendid job. It is very popular at shows. We did an airshow last week and it was cool having that truck in my mirror for an hour on the convoy back to Austin.
We are looking forward to displaying his truck and my V100 side by side.

Cheers

ahh didnt know that. hehe thats awesome!