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If you’re spent any time at all on the Intertubes, I’m sure you’ve seen photos of the dekotora – those brightly lit and garishly decorated trucks in Japan. As David Greenlees showed us recently on The Old Motor, they weren’t the first to festoon their trucks with lights – Earl B. Gilmore, of Gilmore Oil, […]
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Bruce Hays’s original plan was to restore a complete, but somewhat worn, 1959 Chevrolet Apache pickup that he’d bought to give to his wife as an anniversary present. Hays was a Desert Storm veteran and a captain in the Wyoming National Guard. He was recalled to duty in Afghanistan, and killed there in 2008. Hays […]
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Regular HCC Lost and Found readers will recall the photo above, sent in by Vince Montague of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, following the story on the Minneapolis-Moline NTX that I wrote for HCC #69, June 2010. Through some digging in Crismon, we determined that the four-wheel-drive vehicle in Vince’s photo was not an NTX, but a Ford […]
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Tagged Burma Jeep, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, featured posts, ford, Ford GAJ, Ford GCA, Ford GLJ, Ford GTB, Ford T2, Ford T2 Observation Post Tender, Ford T8, Ford T8 Gun Motor Carriage, Ford T8 Swamp Buggy, four-wheel drive, Low Silhouette, March Military Campaign, military vehicles, tankjager, trucks and Jeeps