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Shenanigans! http://vid142.photobucket.com/albums/r118/DavidWhymore/DEUCE/0A984BE6-CCD4-41F2-B404-A556CA5516AE_zpspsb3gjda.mp4

Everybody loves pictures, right? Hot rivets (original Multi) and vertical (early multi) front crossmember. Hood Centered wipers and small fixed rear window. Spring mounted fenders Ether start? Fire truck leftovers? Big dash I gotta go to bed. This green fever is exhausting...

Mud is like drugs, it ruins my life, but I can't stay away from it...sticky desert adobe is the devil...

Mods, think we should just merge my two threads?

Anything helps. I'm just adding up clues and hoping. That's why I really want to save the numbers. Now that I think about it, at least the numbers are yellow, that means something.

Gotta save those numbers... http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?104250-Marine-Corp-or-Early-Deuce-Vin-Number&highlight=USMC EDIT : Did some research, stripper and or lacquer looks like the way to go.

Keep forgetting to mention, when I very first drove it, I managed to get into Lo only once, can't get it again. When I put the lever down against the detent, it starts to whine like it's trying to catch, but then slips down past to the floor and goes into neutral. If I do it with the clutch out...

I just read a rumor that USMC trucks had undercoating, and the insides of my fenders look undercoated. I'm stoked that it's a USMC truck, kind of unusual. Love the dark OD green and yellow letters, digging around trying to find pictures of them. I found traces of yellow letters on my hood, but...

Rabbit trail identification thread kink below : http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?136487-Old-mixed-parts-M35-Gasser-VIN-ID-please&p=1682426#post1682426 Drove it a little in the yard today and it died a couple times when I would get on and then let off the throttle. Maybe because the...

Oops. Meant A1 Multi. I found Barrman and Recovry's posts and checked a bunch of things. Hot rivets on engine mounts, multi firewall recess, multi air filter reinforcement plate on firewall, I-beam torque rods, steering box fill plug, front brake lines, springs on fender bolts. etc...

I'm out at the shop looking at it, and everything indicates it's an A2 multi. Correction: A1 multi, probably LDS 427

Ten four. Also going to compare firewalls per Barrman's thread. "Don't even know if I have a Gasser cab". I think gas firewalls are flat and multis have an indent into the cab. Picture in my photobucket makes it look indented. My numbers and firewall point to '62 with 427.

Been searching forum for Stude numbers. Think I might have a winner for year...? Mine is M59. I wouldn't be surprised if the dash is original and someone took the plates off to paint it and never put them back. Gonna be time to head out to the shop and investigate the deuce more shortly.

So...if the numbers are serial numbers in order of manufacture (they seem to be), my M59# is later than your #M56, it could have been a 427. My axles are '62-'67. Need to look at case and trans tags again for dates. 'Course all that could have been changed.

Found post by doghead, re: front fenders. Pretty sure my fenders are angled. My flip up engine side covers are A1/multi, gasser ones are too short/narrow vertically. Hope the hood is original... has remnants of yellow letters on the underside about securing hood with safety latches.

Thanks everyone! This is turning out to be quite a fun little investigation. I have been researching and it's raining here in the desert (where it never rains). The adobe mud out here is the devil, so I'm probably going to be inside researching more today. Here is where I'm at now. Want to...

After talking to Jack and looking at his trucks, not sure, but it looks to be a USMC 1959 Studebaker that originally had an LDS 427 and was swapped to an LDS 465 (5 ton engine).

So, do you think I should run my 1100-20s dual or single? Ha ha Ha!

Thank you, Eaglhawk! I think you and I have some of the same thing. I think it's kind of cool if a bit odd. Old REO style with 5 ton power, ha ha! I have been an avid forum user for at least a decade, for whatever I'm into. I'm a member on more than I could think of or count, not that I use...

To clarify, I didn't mean to sound snarky or demanding, and I wasn't referring to rusty or sinker :-) Just seems like there used to be a lot of guys around that knew a lot, and not much going on anymore...