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I searched a few old posts but only found a few references to the AM715.
After an evening digging around on the net, found a few webpages relating to it as well, but had a question that I wondered if anyone here could answer?
Were there any AM715's here in the states? Seems they were destined for export at the time to places like Israel.
If so, does anyone have one?
when I was in the Air Force in 75, Tyndall had a ambulance verison , used for inflight emergencies, like this one but of course Air Force blue.
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6243/185531ug5.jpg
also had 7.50 x 16 mud and snow tires.
So they were in use with the US Armed forces then...interesting.
Where was the picture of that one taken?
this on was on Ebay ,the guy that own it was in Tennesse, I think he was asking 4000. for it , There was one sold at Gov LIq. it was a 78 or 79 ambulance model it was in NC. A picture of it is on
www.angelfire.com/nb2/jeeppickups/amgeneral.html - Cached
I dont know of any AM715 in use ,Maybe some one else does.
Some time back there were several dozen in northern Mexico.
There was one offer for sales in Bangkok two years ago :)
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The later ones used by the military I don't think were actually AM715's. I think that they were probably just on J20 chassis. When I was in the Air Force in 79, we had a few J20 pickups set up as brush trucks for the fire dept.
It seems all the AM715 ever made were export but there seems to be no avial info on them. The ambulances you see were purchased thru AMC not AM General. Supposedly there is a kinda rough one at white owl in N.C.
Was the AM chassis different from the J series trucks? It seems they were close to the same, but the info is scant.Quote:
Originally Posted by moosejr
The ones we had were standard FSJ series cab, bed, with 8-lug standard dana 60 front and 70 rear axle, .. marked J-20 on the side. . .
Hey,
the AM 715 stuff was for example built in Egypt under licence and had 8 stud axles in stead of 6 stud pattern. To my knowledge they were never supplied to the U.S.Army. A friend of mine owns a scrabed pile of an AM726 with a AMC 4.2 liter gas engine. The mud guards are the same pattern as the Gladiator tucks.
So they are for collectors only, not for the M715 series fan.
Wolf
The original AM715 vehicles were built here in the US. There are a few here and they were evaluated by the military here and rejected during the mid to late 70's as a followup, improved M715. Thats wen the CUCV stuff came out instead.
Then Jeep licensed others to build them in several countries including Mexico.
No reason they arent for M715 fans...they are a cousin after all.
I always found them interesting and if one popped up, I'd grab it just for its unusual factor.....I'm surprised they didn't catch on as a replacement vehicle for the military.