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If history taught us anything is that wars, with all the pain and suffering they bring, are also hotbeds for technological developments. As foes race to annihilate each other, they come up with increasingly advanced tech, naturally militarized but always ready to serve civilians once the war is over.
World War II, for instance, gave us things like V-2 rocket that would form the basis for the human exploration of space, the jet engines that brought incredible speeds within reach of even civilians, and vehicles like the Willys MB and the Ford GPW - the U.S. Army trucks that would become the off-roaders we appreciate so much today.
As a result of their influence on our modern lives and their place in history, military pieces of hardware are extremely coveted by collectors. And that’s exactly what the owner of this 1953 Dodge M37 bets on as they plan to sell in March during the Mecum auction in Glendale, Arizona.
The M37 was introduced by Dodge in 1951 as the successor of the WC Series that played its part during the Second World War. It is a ¾, 4x4 family of machines that saw a lot of action during the Korean War.
Several variants of the truck were made, ranging from command ones to wreckers. The green over green example we have here is a cargo unit, but we are not told anything about what unit it was deployed with or where and if it actually served in a conflict zone.
But it does come with all the things that made this truck all army, including the 6-cylinder engine linked to a 4-speed manual transmission, a bed-mounted spare tire, field tools, auxiliary fuel can, snorkel, and even military marks, numbers, and info plates.
Mecum does not give an estimate as to how much the 1953 Dodge M37 is expected to fetch.
As a result of their influence on our modern lives and their place in history, military pieces of hardware are extremely coveted by collectors. And that’s exactly what the owner of this 1953 Dodge M37 bets on as they plan to sell in March during the Mecum auction in Glendale, Arizona.
The M37 was introduced by Dodge in 1951 as the successor of the WC Series that played its part during the Second World War. It is a ¾, 4x4 family of machines that saw a lot of action during the Korean War.
Several variants of the truck were made, ranging from command ones to wreckers. The green over green example we have here is a cargo unit, but we are not told anything about what unit it was deployed with or where and if it actually served in a conflict zone.
But it does come with all the things that made this truck all army, including the 6-cylinder engine linked to a 4-speed manual transmission, a bed-mounted spare tire, field tools, auxiliary fuel can, snorkel, and even military marks, numbers, and info plates.
Mecum does not give an estimate as to how much the 1953 Dodge M37 is expected to fetch.
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