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Talked to the gentleman today. Sounds like its biggest issue is it needs a rear wheel cylinder so no brakes. 1952 apparently. He is going to go look at its condition and get back with me and we'll go from there.

A lot has happened since then...It's funny how the more things change the more some stay the same.

Holy dead thread revival from 3 years later, I know, but this possibility just renewed itself.

Thanks for the info, guys! Yeah, I'm aware of the single circuit brake system and how inherently sketchy those are known to be. Other people have already suggested I put M939 series axles/air brakes under it. I had my introduction to driving a manual in a Deuce with no brakes. Yeah, my...

Admin/mod, can you please remove the accidental double attachment? (leaving just one). I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Thanks in advance! (I imagine it takes up extra space on the site's servers).

Now for one of my own photos, albeit hastily taken through a car windshield while briefly driven there, while he was turning the car around. This was yesterday, not in 2011, so note it moved:

I in no way, shape or form claim any rights to the photos which are obviously screen shots/frame grabs from Google Streetview.

I looked on Google Streetview, never updated since 2011 in that area, and lo and behold, it was there, in the driveway of the house directly behind where we lived. It's since been moved to an adjacent piece of property he doesn't own so it's moved at least once since then.

While back in Sitka, AK visiting an old neighbor (street I spent part of my childhood on) I was anecdotally relating how I'd considered daily driving a 50 year old Deuce and a Half on alternative fuels. "I know where a Deuce and a Half dump truck is" he says. Drives me over to look at it, and...