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1952 Willys M38 Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: 
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◊ 2006-08-24 18:51 |
A Willys Jeep, no doubt. As for the trucks, they are GMC M-135s, sometimes easy to confuse with CCKWs. |
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◊ 2006-09-05 06:39 |
More than a Jeep. A Willys M38, the successor to the standard WWII jeep. The civilian version of the CJ3A. Built around 1949-1951. Jim |
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◊ 2012-06-30 18:36 |
Two M38s were used in the film. One was a 1952 Willys M38 ex-US Army; the other was a 1952 M38 built by Ford of Canada for the Canadian military. One suffered a rollover on the way to location up in Hope, B.C. so the other got to do most of the driving shots like the convoy in the pic there. The trucks are indeed GMC M135s, most of the ones I've seen have dataplates dating them from 1953-56. The Canadian Army used them as their chief troop/cargo transport vehicles until the arrival of the MLVW in the 80s, at which point hundreds were surplused. Out of the 'Rambo' trucks, most were actually borrowed from a local militia unit (15 Fd Arty), where one or two more were purchased by production from the logging company Macmillan Bloedel -- having been acquired by them in a very early surplus sale a decade or so prior. The one in the gas-station blow up scene was one of the MacBlo trucks, and still ran afterwards! It was sold on afterwards to a collector who I think took it to the Queen Charlottes. If you watch the movie at the point where Rambo jumps down and lands on the cargo compartment tarp on one of these "duece-and-a-halfs", you'll plainly see a mattress between the top of the bows and the canvas. There really is nothing to the cover on these - just wooden hoops and canvas stretched overtop - so your average action movie star would just rip straight through in that little place we like to call reality. .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2012-10-30 02:23 |
The same or another seen later![[Image: pdvd_439.1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5931/pdvd_439.1.jpg) |
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