A "Beauty" among the "Beasts!"
Picture of the Week 4/10/2006
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Bill_Wolf
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Picture of the Week 4/10/2006
A little different this week.... Camp Pendleton
A "Beauty" among the "Beasts!"
A "Beauty" among the "Beasts!"
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blackdog
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I will add more info about this DUKW...
It was found by a Mechanized Museum volunteer at Lake Hemet in Riverside, which is around 100+ miles N of Camp Pendleton. It was used by some local people (not sure exactly who) to maintain a dam until one day they just left it under a tree. This volunteer inquired about them donating it to the Mechanized Museum and they said "sure"... so a couple weeks later we had an LVS (the vehicles on the right) head up to fetch it. It only took a few days to get it running. It is now in the condition you see it in below. It needs a new paint job though. Along with brakes.... (right now we must rely on the handbrake!)
We have one more DUKW that has been on the backburner for maybe two years now... we just have to get it done at this point... it's painted and everything... we just have too many other projects to tend to!
It was found by a Mechanized Museum volunteer at Lake Hemet in Riverside, which is around 100+ miles N of Camp Pendleton. It was used by some local people (not sure exactly who) to maintain a dam until one day they just left it under a tree. This volunteer inquired about them donating it to the Mechanized Museum and they said "sure"... so a couple weeks later we had an LVS (the vehicles on the right) head up to fetch it. It only took a few days to get it running. It is now in the condition you see it in below. It needs a new paint job though. Along with brakes.... (right now we must rely on the handbrake!)
We have one more DUKW that has been on the backburner for maybe two years now... we just have to get it done at this point... it's painted and everything... we just have too many other projects to tend to!
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dr deuce
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Neat!
Dr Deuce Over 50,000 driven miles in a CCKW
1942 CCKW closed cab shopvan
1943 CCKW closed cab cargo w/M32 MG mount
1944 CCKW open cab LeRoi Kompressor
1944 CCKW open cab F1 Aircraft fueler tanker
1945 CCKW open cab cargo w/artic cab
1942 Chev cargo
1942 Chev K51 Panel
1944 Chev M6 Bomb Truck
1942 GPW Jeep
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1942 CCKW closed cab shopvan
1943 CCKW closed cab cargo w/M32 MG mount
1944 CCKW open cab LeRoi Kompressor
1944 CCKW open cab F1 Aircraft fueler tanker
1945 CCKW open cab cargo w/artic cab
1942 Chev cargo
1942 Chev K51 Panel
1944 Chev M6 Bomb Truck
1942 GPW Jeep
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armydriver
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Cool story and great photo. Quality and history in todays world. Thanks.
52 M38 Willy's
Former owner and restorer of CCKW353 " Betty Boop"
proud father of a career Army officer/Blackhawk pilot/ War in Iraq veteran
Retired high school history teacher at Lt. Colonel Robert G. Cole CMH High School, Fort Sam Houston Texas
proud great grandson of four Confederate soldiers.
great great grandson of a War of 1812 veteran
great great great grandson of 2 American Revolutionary war veterans
Former owner and restorer of CCKW353 " Betty Boop"
proud father of a career Army officer/Blackhawk pilot/ War in Iraq veteran
Retired high school history teacher at Lt. Colonel Robert G. Cole CMH High School, Fort Sam Houston Texas
proud great grandson of four Confederate soldiers.
great great grandson of a War of 1812 veteran
great great great grandson of 2 American Revolutionary war veterans