This Dodge M37 is "thee" 1st running one , one has ever saw . Everything that one self has "red" has shown that these trucks are powered by "Cummins 3.9TBA" motors. This video was awesome to see one in running condition and a Gas engine too.
I've been into power wagons/m37s since the early 50s....my dad drove power wagon fire trucks for CDF and I later worked for a corporate farm that had a fleet of m37s and mudded them to death....1 0f my favorite mental pictures is of an m37 pulling a farmall 656 tractor and a large pipe trailer thru axel deep mud. the power wagons and m 37 name has always been interchangeable with me...mechanical parts are interchangeable, if you get back into the wwii version they are are a couple inches narrower but parts will interchange except for axels and a single speed transfer case....the wagons are 2 feet longer...mighty fine trucks no matter what you call them
Enjoyed your video. Hope whoever bought the truck is enjoying it. Julie is one lucky lady.....getting to go out on such a romantic drive....😁 Wishing you & your family happiness & prosperity.
it's not a power wagon...the power wagon is the civilian version of this truck...they are different..the power wagon was the first four wheel drive vehicle offered to the public around 1947...this truck is a M-37 cousin to the power wagon, but not a power wagon
First gear isn't synchronized you know, better off just using 2nd. It is true the "arctic package" was practically standard on the CAN M37s and the Canadians had a 251 engine, not a 230 like all the US made trucks. The tops started out as a modified deuce top, Air Force trucks had them most of the time too. I have a 52 with an early oval window in the hard top. You see them in pics of Army trucks in Korea, I don't know how it was decided who got a soft or hard top. Of course the ambulances were all enclosed.
the m37 with spare tire in the bed are listed as m37b1--- T 245A those wit mounted on driver side are list m37B-----T254 some have a bradenton 7500 pound max winch operated off the eng via PTO with foword and rev control out front on the winch
the fact that some are still here tell how well they were made back then simple but like a tank i think the steel bumpers are about 1/2 in thick that 4 on the front of these truck showes bridge wight limit needed to handle this weight loaded truck up 8000 lbs about 4 tons bridges should have thier load limit posted
you very seldom see these trucks not that many left i found mine in ajunk yard in GEORGIA on line while looking for a jeep in 2011 it was last reg in ga 2007 got all paper work from day 1 army took posession in 12-14-53 civil air potrol then civilions hav ther reg cards
