Dodge Military Trucks..880 or M37

[ACUDANUT]

 Does anyone own one ??

[Todd Wilson]

What do you need to know?


todd

[hemihead]

Love the M37 , wish I had one   

[Magnumcharger]

What do they look like? I just found a junkyard last week full of old Army vehicles. All in great shape.

[Todd Wilson]

A Dodge M880 is nothing more then a 70's Dodge pickup as fr as body goes.

This is an M37

[TruckDriver]

Wish I had the cash to buy this right now

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/car/584381292.html

[Magnumcharger]

M37 + 880

[NMike]

where were those photos taken?

[TruckDriver]

I'm curious too. It kind of reminds me of the place on the Wisconsin/Illinois state line on I-94 at Russel Road. Only thing I don't see, are the retired military and Coast Guard helicopters in the back ground.



There is also a place that sell old military equipment north of me 30 miles in Oshkosh on hwy 41.

[SFRT]

I restored an M37 about 8 years ago and drove it around town quite a bit. fun to drive, a PITA to parallel park. Main problem...the gearing wont let you go fast than about 48 MPH so its sorta impossible to drive it on the freeway. Super easy to work on, the whole thing uses basically 3 fastener sizes and is engineered so just about the dumbest person in the world can repair it. Parts are cheap and plentiful. weighs about 6400 lbs...6 banger. M37's are great. most of them had 2nd lives as farm or parks dept trucks so usually they are pretty rough. Usually 2nd gear start is the norm, 1st gear you can go straight up a wall at 2 mph or so.

EXCELLENT for offroad..I ended up selling mine to a retired military guy who know uses it on his farm.

[Magnumcharger]

where were those photos taken?

Sweetgrass Montana, right on the border with Alberta. I shot those pics one week agoo.

[NMike]

are those privately owned vehicles? are they for sale?

[hemihead]

Man , I love that M37  Those things can climb trees no doubt .

[Magnumcharger]

are those privately owned vehicles? are they for sale?

That, I cannot tell you. They are 10 hours drive from my place. Try Googling it?

[speedfreak68]

theres a guy back home that has a 6x6 with a huge water tank on it...uses it for waterin the cattle and whe we burn off wheat stubble.

[SFRT]

http://www.usmilitaryvehicles.com/vehicles_m.htm

has some nice ones for sale. I paid 6ooo.oo for mine, but it was pretty trashed. these are restored.

[SFRT]

heres a pimped out 715 for a good price

http://www.armyjeeps.net/vehicle1.htm

[Scatpack]

I saw an old dodge truck from a fire station for sale a few years ago.It almost looked the same size and a ford early bronco.Would that be the M37???It was way cool

[TruckDriver]

Here is a link to one of the Dealerships here in Wisconsin. They have a few Dodges and a bunch of other cool trucks.

www.alfaheaven.com

Here is the direct link to the truck page.

http://www.alfaheaven.com/Military%20Section/TrkCvrPage.html

[Todd Wilson]

http://www.dodgepowerwagon.com/classifieds/classifieds.html

[Todd Wilson]

VPW just got a giant shipment of M37 parts in from overseas.


http://www.vintagepowerwagons.com/



Todd

[TruckDriver]

Here is a website that lists most of them in the U.S..
http://dev.hey.net/surplus/


This place here is just north of me 30 miles in Oshkosh right on hwy 41. They have a truck identification page which is nice.
http://www.oshkoshequipment.com/

[ACUDANUT]

M-37 are cool, but I prefer the M-880. The 880 truck is rated a 1 1/4 ton and can travel 70 MPH and parts are more plenty-full than the M-37.

[694spdRT]

I was looking for an older truck and decided to buy a heavy 3/4 ton over a 880.  The 880's are basically a stripped down standard 3/4 ton Dodge truck chassis with a Dana 44/Dana 60 axle combo, full time 203 transfer case, and 318 power.  I don't know where the 5/4 ton rating comes from but I don't see it.  The one good thing is that they usually are in fairly decent shape body wise compared to most of the old civilian trucks and have lower miles.

The rust free '76 Dodge W250 Adventurer club cab I bought has a factory Dana 60 front and Dana 60 rear, 400 bid block, big radiator, and a much heavier frame. It even has one of them factory CB radio setups in it. 

[ACUDANUT]

69 4 speed,  Cool Find. Did you buy that one off e-bay that only sold for $850.00 ??  I wanted that truck but it was on the east coast and would have cost another 1500 to ship.  70's style 3/4 ton 4x4's are rare.  90 percent of them were 2x4's.