Our adventure began in Ohio where we picked up the Deuce with a gooseneck trailer and an F350 truck to pull it. We forgot to check the air on the trailer tires and when it was loaded the tires sunk so low we thought they would burst. We put more air and prayed the rest of the trip back to Illinois. When we left Illinois it was freezing rain and I could barely see out the window. I was only 15 minutes from home and I had to stop and knock the ice off. Then the wiper broke but luckily I had a spare. A huge snow storm was following us but we managed to stay ahead of it. People were staring at the truck and some saluted and some took pictures.
When we got to Georgia is was raining so hard we had to stop because we couldn't see.
It was a little embarrassing getting started in the morning and having to start the thing up right in a hotel parking lot. The poor people sleeping there probably wondered what that noise was at 4 AM. Thinking back, we should have parked in a lot farther away. Oh well.
When we got to Miami we were told the truck couldn't carry anything and I had 11 spare tires in the back. I had to unload the tires and send them separately. It cost 2000 to send the truck on the boat and another 300 to send the tires. The taxes in Panama were about 1200, so it was almost as much as we paid for the Deuce! It is there to stay though.
As soon as I got there, people were asking me if it was for sale. No way, it is much needed in the remote area where our farm is. It has to cross streams and climb steep muddy hills. We hope to use the truck for our own farm and also to help the people that live remotely, get their produce to market. When we bought this Deuce, we got so nervous about all the EUC stuff that we bought another before the paper work was done just in case something went wrong with the first one. Now we are proud owners of two. The second one is scheduled to go to Panama before the year is out. I'm sending some more pictures. I saw a blue M35A2 in Panama and took a picture. These others are the farm, and one that we took in Georgia where we stopped because of the torrential downpour.
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