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As someone who has built an RV out of a deuce, it is truly an awesome thing and I would almost rather sell my house first before Army Bob would go away! We looked at the bigger trucks like the 5 tons, power company and fire dept brush trucks and they were just too big----for us---because we do...

Okay, I knew I would get you guys going on this, and **whew!** I was right! My attempt at creative writing in my original post didn't quite turn out correctly. I just should've asked why you guys like them. NO offense was intended. But I take no blame in your own arguments about engines...

Okay, okay. Don't get the shorts in a twist, there! That's why I asked. Remember, most of us think it's just a truck.... Ya can't get the same thing out in civilian land so you don't have go thru the GL hassle? Are they more heavy duty than a civie truck?

Even as a female, I do believe if we want to play with boys (no, not like that!!), we should be held to same standards as the boys. No porta pottie on battlefield, etc. You can't be given respect; it must be earned. Until us girls can pull our own weight (yes that's a pun), we will not be...

Forgive me my ignorance, but I have watched with amusement, as well as puzzlement, the nearly fanatical following that the CUCV's enjoy. To me, one of the unknowing, these are merely simple pickups and big SUV's in military clothing. I am gathering that this is not the case. I know I am...

Thanks, RL, I appreciate it. I wandered through alot of different types of forum sites, and SS is one of best organized, best run sites with the most good people. You guys ( and gals) are great! We didn't want to leave Army Bob unattended in the campground while Mr. Gimli was chasing parts...

Thanks, Clinto. This happened over Thanksgiving weekend - we were up and rolling again by the next Wednesday. Biggest problem was getting to a phone to get the parts and then where to send to? It worked out that Mr. Gimli bummed a ride back to Carson City, then one of our employees came and...

That's what I love about SS - the wealth of information to be had. Many thanks!

Sheared a bolt on a rocker arm, which then caused the rocker arm shaft to break. Nice! Happened over Thanksgiving in Death Valley, Calif. I sat with Army Bob in a campground for a couple days while Mr. Gimli bummed a ride home to start getting parts.* At least I was comfortable.... That...

Our mutt, Nikki, is partially deaf so it doesn't bother her a bit. One advantage of the camper and the go-thru from the cab to the camper part, is she can either hang with us up front (on my lap of course) or go to sleep on her bed in the back. Picture is this Thanksgiving in Death Valley Calif.

They did an awesome job - great use of space. But where is the toilet? Outside I guess. Love the attached tent - added space. From ones who have built something like this, actually $127,000 is fair. It's alot of freaking work. The paint is beautiful, but we would wipe half of it off...

Cameron - go for it! The beauty of America : " I do not like what you doing!!" " I acknowledge your opinion, but I am going to do it anyway!" No different than taking a perfectly good old rare car and changing all the components and making a hot rod...

You got it right, Glen. If we wanted a true M715, we would go find one. Since Mr Neighbor has mentioned getting rid of the Gladiator, it's too good to pass up if we get it at a good price. If we weren't into MV's, we probably would get it anyway and keep it original. But now that we have Army...

Beautiful trucks, Dave! Your hard work is noted and applauded! Yeah, we knew it was pretty much a civi truck. However, "easier" is defined by the person doing the work. Putting the extreme RV on Army Bob was no walk in the park, I can assure you. Mr. Gimli is one of those that believes the...

Thanks for the info! I figured there had to be a club for these trucks. As far as the modifying of it, yeah, we will do whatever we feel is necessary to accomplish the goal at hand. We had a couple of people poo-poo that fact that on Army Bob we cut an access thru the cab to the RV. I...

Well, we are officially addicted to MVs now. I guess Army Bob is not enough, because Mr. Gimli has spied what he believes is the cilivian version of M 715 in our neighbor's back yard. It runs, kinda. He used to haul garbage with it, but it has sat for several months now. A couple questions...

For all of you interested in the single windshield idea, please bear with me for a couple days. I will pick Mr. Gimli's little pea brain for all the details and post a separate thread for everyone interested. We going to see if we can figure out how to make a kit for the one piece too... Thanks!

Yeah, you will have to get VIN inspection. Up north here (near Reno), we have several auto related businesses that have been certified to check VINs (like auto repair places) but you have to go to the main DMV offices anyway so you may as well do there. Before budget cuts, it was very convenient...

No worries! Nevada is very simple! When we registered Army Bob, we had an Oregon title. We did have to wait 2 weeks for them to input a designation for AM General into the system (I guess ours was the first AMG registered in NV?) But it was clear sailing after that. You will have to get a...

THANKS! It was a lot of work, but well worth it. Now if we didn't have to work for living.. would rather be wandering all over the place in the darn thing.. Many, many hours went into just the planning. I would go out into the shop, and there was all my guys (Mr Gimli included) standing...