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A Red Ball Express truck gets stuck in the mud during World War II, 1944. 1971 AM General M35A2 with winch and camouflage cargo cover. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 6×6 truck was a standard class of medium duty trucks, designed at the beginning of World War II for the US Armed Forces, in service for over half a century, from 1940 into the 1990s.
The "Fénix" is a M4E1 tower, recovered from a car M42 Duster and 2 M50 machine guns .30 caliber for Protective Part (a cylindrical tower made of welded armor plate with open top with twin mounting Bofors 40 mm gun), mounted on a tactical platform Truck 6x6 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton Reo M-35.
A competition monster truck is typically 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, and equipped with 66-inch (1.7 m) off-road tires. Monster trucks developed in the late 1970s and came into the public eye in the early 1980s as side acts at popular motocross , tractor pulling , and mud bogging events, where they were used in car-crushing demonstrations.
The Mack AC was a heavy cargo truck designed in the 1910s by the American manufacturer Mack Trucks.Introduced in 1916, the Mack AC saw extensive service during the First World War with the British and American armed forces, in British service it was given the nickname the "Bulldog" which led to Mack adopting the Bulldog as its corporate symbol.
Completed in the fall of 1982 to meet demand for appearance of the original truck, Bigfoot 2 was the first monster truck to use 66-inch-tall (170 cm) tires, the standard monster truck tire used from that point forward. The truck raced a paddle steamer on the Chattahoochee River in Columbus, Georgia in 1985. [11]
Bear Foot is a monster truck currently owned by James Trantina of Triple B Motorsports. It was originally built by Jack Wilman and Fred Shafer and, along with Bigfoot and USA-1 was one of the first monster trucks. It won the 1990, 1992, and 1993 USHRA Camel Mud and Monsters championships.
The Studebaker US6 was a series of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6×6 and 5-ton 6×4 trucks manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation and REO Motor Car Company during World War II.The basic cargo version was designed to transport a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-short-ton (5,000 lb; 2,300 kg) cargo load over any type of terrain in any weather.
1915 model featured 1-ton weight, four-cylinder engine, three speed transmission and aimed to be faster than the 10–15 mph (16–24 km/h) average speed of contemporary trucks. [9] 1917 model featured 3.25-ton weight and canvas top and sides and cost $1125. [10] 1925 model featured six-cylinder engine