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MarkHolloway
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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Halftrack ID
Someone asked if I could ID this for them. I'm not very good on half tracks. What is it? Thanks in advance! _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
- MarkHolloway Someone asked if I could ID this for them. I'm not very good on half tracks. What is it? Thanks in advance! Looks invisible to me. Hard to tell.

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
Yep, not quite enough information. Got a linky?

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
D'OH! _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:10 am Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
this is most probably an M3 White, or an M5 International. Hard to tell which one without having access to the engine. P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:26 am Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
It's definitely not an International, they have "flat"front fenders. Mike

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
www.halftracks.com/index.cfm This link will take to half-tracked places even your internet imagination couldn't have predicted.

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
I always wondered what the roller on the front was for?

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
- blair I always wondered what the roller on the front was for? To assist in crossing ditches, seems like it was one of those semisuccessful ideas and discontinued before the war ended. Jens O.

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
The vehicle in the picture has an exagerrated front bumper with a Power Take Otff (PTO) winch not a roller. From my experience in Jeeps, a winch is a much more productive lump of steel to carry on the front end than a roller.

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:20 pm
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My best guess is an M3A1 APC halftrack. There appears to be a gun "pulpit" showing behind the kid at the passenger side of the halftrack's windshield. It has the "automotive" style fenders of the White?Autocar/Diamond T production. The headlights are the earlier pattern, being mounted out on the fenders. The APC has the extended front bumper with winch. I don't see any side access door of the M2 series. Not bad shape for this old beastie - where is it?

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
It's at a war museum in Viet Nam. _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID
M3 that has been upggraded to a M3A1.

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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:32 pm
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My guess is it is a M3 that had a pulpit added in the field. I own both a M3 and a M3a1. When they upgraded the M3 to an M3a1, the headlights were removed from the fenders, and they went to the pedestal lights like tanks had, this one still has the fender headlights. Also the mine racks down the side were done when they upgraded to M3A1.

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