M561 1.25-Ton 6x6 Gama Goat: Project Status
| 6/17/2001 | My truck arrives from Escanaba, Michigan, on a flat-bed semi-trailer. I unloaded it with my M543A2 5-ton 6x6 wrecker, by lifting the rear end of the truck, having the driver pull his trailer forward until the front wheels of the Goat were near the back edge of the trailer, lowering the back end to the ground, pulling my wrecker around to the side of the trailer, lifting the front end of the Goat, having the driver pull the trailer forward again, and lowering the front end to the ground. It would have been much easier to hire the services of a tilt-bed wrecker, and it even would have been cheaper than the lifting sling I built, but it would have been a lot less fun! Unfortunately, I didn't find out the delivery date until the last minute, and I wasn't able to draft somebody to take pictures of the unloading process. The pictures would have been pretty neat. |
| 5/19/2006 | I sold my truck to another collector in Ohio a few days ago, and it left for its new home this morning. I hope he will be able to put more time into restoring it, because I think it will clean up very nicely. I sold it for what I had into it minus the original shipping from Michigan, and I've driven it 23 miles while I had it. Those were some expensive miles, huh? |
| 5/23/2006 | Today I bought my replacement for the Gama Goat: a 1964 M38A1 Jeep |