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MarkHolloway · 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! Smile

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

- 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. Mr. Green

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID

Yep, not quite enough information. Got a linky?

MarkHolloway · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID

D'OH!

the_shadock · 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

recon4ww2 · 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

Maple_Leaf_Eh · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 517

www.halftracks.com/index.cfm

This link will take to half-tracked places even your internet imagination couldn't have predicted.

blair · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 87

I always wondered what the roller on the front was for?

Jens_O_Mehner · 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.

Maple_Leaf_Eh · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 517

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.

binder001 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 363

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?

Gary

MarkHolloway · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID

It's at a war museum in Viet Nam.

tanker2010 · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID

M3 that has been upggraded to a M3A1.

tankdriver · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: Halftrack ID

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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