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I looked at it twice the last couple days. I knew there was a picture, just couldn’t remember which book it was in.

After much searching, I found two photos of Marine Corps “war wagon” gun trucks. One is in “Have Guns will travel” be James Lyles and the other is in David Doyle’s book called “Gun Trucks”. On page 71 of “Gun Trucks”, there’s an excellent photo of one of the Marine Corps war wagon gun trucks...

Good looking bird! I have 4 sets of skid shoes for that type helicopter. I keep hoping I’ll find a helicopter to put them on.

That HEMTT is nice! The refueler was the last vehicle I was trained on. If only I could afford a real one… you do outstanding work, thank you for showing us your artwork!

The last book, Have Guns Will Travel should be the one with the Marine Corps trucks. I dug out my small stack of gun truck books. I’ll search them for anything helpful.

LOL!

I found the reference for modern day gun trucks. It’s a multi service document and applies to the four services. The Coasties and Space Force are not included (when they need gunners on the space shuttle or space station, I’m volunteering for that!). The reference for the Marine Corps is: MCRP...

Well shucks, that won’t do any good. Back to the drawing board.

https://www.keymilitary.com/article/braving-vietnams-roads Some shots of trucks on convoys.

I need to dig around in my dungeon, I mean basement, for all the books I’ve got on the subject. The one book I don’t have is the Marine Corps manual on converting vehicles into improvised gun trucks.

This picture was taken at this year’s (2022) Cheyenne Wyoming’s annual Christmas parade. We raised $150 and collected 4 donation boxes full of toys.

Beautiful truck! The hardest part of building a Marine Corps gun truck you already have, the ring mount. The gun box sat a couple feet aft of the cargo bed forward bulkhead. There was an antenna and a weapons mount sticking up out of the bed. I need to find my books to jog the old brain housing...

There’s at least one picture, maybe two, in the book that shows the Marine gun truck. As I recall, all Marine Corps gun trucks were called “war wagons”. If they also had more personalized names, I don’t recall seeing any. My gun truck “War Wagon” is modeled on the 359th TC gun truck by the same...

The Navy inadvertently left a 20mm machine gun unguarded. It ended up on an Army gun truck. There’s pictures of quad .50’s on 2.5 and 5 ton trucks. The quads were leftovers from World War 2 and the Korean War. If I could find the parts and pieces, I’d build a quad .50 truck. Imagine driving that...

Yes, according to James Lyles books, the Marine Corps had war wagons, as they called them. If you can find copies of his books, you should find lots of general gun truck information. The Army, Air Force and Marine Corps all had gun trucks. The Navy had battleships.

Yes they do. It wasn’t there back in ‘86. One of these days I’ll stop by there and visit. Now that everything is no longer shut down, hopefully we’ll get to see it next summer.

That’s cool! I was stationed at Hill AFB back in 1986. I was in a different squadron, however.

Nice setup! Thanks for the pics! Question, your door has the 388th Fighter Wing out of Hill AFB. Any particular reason for this?

Following this thread. I’ve got one transmission that inop and another maybe inop. I’ve been reluctant to attack the repair because I’m clueless about automatic transmission repair.

Best I can say is give it a try. I pulled my tank once. Given my druthers, I’ll never do that heinous chore again. As I recall the skid plate was a pretty tight fit. Try taking some measurements of both tanks and compare.