my truck is finally done!

well its will never be done, but is is now driveable. for those who have followed any of my posts for the last 2 years, this truck was our Fire Dept brush truck for over 20 years. I have posted many pics in my photo album of the project. I cant thank the members on this board enough for there Knowledge, pics, hard to find parts etc. I will post some more pics on this thread another day.

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WOW, looks great!! Quite different!! Congratulations!!

I know there is alot of hard work there and it really shows. Nice job! More pic's!!!!!!

I would be very proud of that truck...its a beauty!!

Very nice truck, congrats!!

Truck looks great! Good work. You should be proud of yourself!

I really dig the diamond plate fender flares. I was thinking of making new rockers out of that material. Looks way better!

The truck should go 10 MPH faster now with all that FD iron taken off. Looks awesome.

Scott

Thanks guys! I really didnt want the diamond plate on the fender flares, but when my dept built the truck, they capped the original flares with the diamond plate and welded them all the way around to the fender and the bed. So i decided to cut them back to the stock width and just leave them. I will get some more pics up soon.

Duane

What a transforamtion!

Very nice work there.

Looks great!

Looks great. Just a thought, maybe paint the tool handles O.D. You did one heck of a job on getting that truck back to military. Add a few numbers and letters here and there, and I'd say I'm back in the Army during the Vietnam War driving my old truck! Very nice.

Great job!

Is the truck finished, or do you have other plans for it?

Looks great!

RM

Thanks for the compliments, right now I have been taking a break and enjoying it,As you can see, it was a pretty big project to go from Fire truck back to Army Truck. I put around 300 miles on it since september.
I am need of a defrost cable to finish the heater, would like to wire the blackout brake light thru the headlight switch so it works, then the lights will be 100%, my fire dept had recovered the seats in green vinyl, at first I said I was gonna leave it, but this spring I am gonna get the canvas covers and redo them. gonna collect the parts for the cargo top. Thats probably my short list of things that I would like to get done. I really thinking of driving it down to aberdeen MD and putting it on display this year. Anyone else want to bring theirs down too? we can have a M715 convention.


Duane

Very nice! What is the name of that color? Is that the color they were originally?

gilespie 24087

nice job.

Drive it, and enjoy it. It should get alot of attention on display. Be ready to answer alot of questions.