Finally got my M715

[heywood]

Hooked up with REDNECK1 and purchased my M715 project .
Picked it up christmas day.Drove through 4 hours worth of rain and had alot of fun getting it moved out of Will's (REDNECK1) yard and up onto the trailer.
Got it back home and today managed to get the engine to turn over and actually fire off a couple of times.She aint running yet but she will be!!!!
I'm figuring I have about a two year project ahead of me.
Lookin forward to it!!!!
I have wanted one of these since I drove them in the USMC.
Thanks Will

[glenn]

Congrats. Would like to see the tree that present fit under.

You actually drove 715's in the Marines? Fellow Motor T Marine here. Semper FI. They were loooong gone by the time I was in. Didn't even have them sitting out in front of buildings on pedestals.

[jeepdan]

Glad to hear about another one being restored.
We would love to hear some of your experiances driving the M-715 while you were in the Marines.

[Don Cavey]

Glad to hear about another one being restored.
We would love to hear some of your experiances driving the M-715 while you were in the Marines.

Yes, I agree that would be great to see and hear.

[Flingarrows]

Congrats on your new truck. Keep us posted of the progress

[tazjeeper]

sounds like it was a great adventure nothing better then a great story behind picking up a great Jeep
congrads

[Barrman]

Did you get the blue one or the red one?

[militarypotts]

Keep us all posted on your new project. Pics if possible.

[heywood]

Got the red one check out my avatar thats her

[heywood]

Not much to tell really,I was a heavy Equipment mechanic attached to
Engineer Maint. CO .Second Maint.Battalion Camp Lejuene NC
We had an M715 With a Huge welder in the bed for a contact truck.
We always kept it parked inside the shop .
One day they told me to put a new engine in it (it probably had 10,000 miles on it) I put a brand new crate motor in it and two weeks later the sent it to the auction yard.
Wish I could have bought that pampered M715....
Loved driving it while we had it.
I have seen it written that the military phased these trucks out in the seventies but that M715 was on active duty in our unit till 1985