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Thread: mikel : The missing link

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by beast on Sept 25, 2006, 2:38pm

    I would have to guess an early prototype. Look at the rhino grill and trim rings, the big bench seat, and what looks like an M38 windshield. Things that were all long gone by the time the AM715's came around.

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by nwljeep on Sept 25, 2006, 3:40pm

    yeah youre probably right on that. I just noticed that the picture is from 1965-1966 and the AM715 wasnt out for 10 yrs after that so it is not an AM715 prototype, but more likely a very early M715 prototype.


    wonder if the prototype survived? Maybe itll pop up on govliquidation someday....

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by brute4c on Sept 25, 2006, 4:38pm

    I would guess......

    This is one of the Kaiser in house prototypes to explore the idea....then later they made the one on the history page as the first prototype that they showed the Goverment in regards to the contract...I dont think the troop seat style in that image would have gone over well with the gov boys...doesnt look very functional for troops with full packs and gear to sit low like that and egress quickly...also it doesnt appear to have any sort of military lighting on it at all...something that would be required....

    Kind of a styling exercise....in my book, certainly the missing link title seems appropriate...civilian truck-->this truck-->the XM715 on the history page-->standard issue M715...

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by mikel on Sept 25, 2006, 5:32pm


    Quote:
    I would guess......
    ....in my book, certainly the missing link title seems appropriate...civilian truck-->this truck-->the XM715 on the history page-->standard issue M715...


    Believing in evolution now??

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by nwljeep on Sept 25, 2006, 6:18pm

    that troop seating remids me of this:

    the seats are almost exactly the same. This truck was a low budget export model for the gladiator exported to turkey.

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by brute4c on Sept 26, 2006, 9:05am

    Interesting...they sure do! What is the date of that types introduction...earlier or later than the M715?

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by nwljeep on Sept 26, 2006, 2:04pm

    The earliest year i can find is 1968.....Hubert cossard had a whole page about it on his site but that site is gone now......
    I have a page with all the info i know on my site on the Turk Willys page.

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by mikel on Sept 26, 2006, 2:11pm

    Do you still have the old URL?


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    Hubert cossard had a whole page about it on his site but that site is gone now......

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by nwljeep on Sept 26, 2006, 2:19pm

    perso.club-internet.fr/cohu
    that was the main page.
    I put it into archive.org and you can get to most of the pages but not the turk willys gladiator one.
    So as of right now I have the only pics on the net of the vehicle that I know of.......

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    Re: The missing link
    Post by mikel on Sept 26, 2006, 3:34pm

    I was going to try web.archive.org

    Maybe the Google cache?

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