Quick little story. Many years ago when I was a young man, I served in Vietnam and my job was driving trucks. Once I was sent to a repair depot to pick up an M37 ambulance and bring it back to our base camp. I don't remember why it was in the repair depot, but I do know that it would be going back, and I know why. I was stopped at a checkpoint at a bridge, and thought it would be cool to try and do a burnout. Wound that little bugger up and dropped the clutch. It went Bang, and did not move. So I casually put it in 4wd and drove it back to the base in front wheel drive and - said nothing... Damn irresponsible kids.

Built & operated by the greatest generation. God bless the U.S.A.

I really love these vehicles. They are the REAL ancestor of all the SUVs, the capable ones and the Power Wagon, king of them all! Love WW2, stuff, the coil, is the same as the one Harley used on their WLA motorcycles.... Remember the 4th and VOTE to make sure we get to keep it.

Gasp! The official Rocket restoration corndog canon!!! Awesome!! Also happy 4th of July!

Bravo form the UK. Happy 4th July.

What a GREAT salute to our history! Appreciate you and your well chosen words at the end in this tribute to the equipment that was used in WWII.

Great video !! These trucks are legendary. I remember just east of Akron, Ohio around 1974 seeing at least 10-20 ambulance versions of these at Sam Winer Motors for sale. They were 1950-1953 versions. The asking price? $3,499. It took a few years to sell them all. Sam Winer had all kinds of military /gov't surplus stuff back then. Even had a tank sitting out front!

Now I know the origins of the multimillion stacked up leaf spring camper special springs :⁠-⁠)

Just saw Tom's video & now gonna watch this one.

Jamie, you are continuing to endear yourself to those of us who are 'old school' [in our Mopar, American and Family values]. Thanks for sharing your eclectic tastes in Dodge lore. Thanks to you, and this vid,, I am gonna go sit in my WC. And think about the men, including my Granddad, who used these in Europe. Mine actually was sold/leased to Switzerland after WWII, and then found it's way home at some point when Switzerland swapped out a bunch of newer military equipment with the US. It still has the tags the Swiss put on it that read in metric for the specs like tire pressure and such. Anyhoo,, glad to see you got the 4:88's put in the Demon. God Bless the U.S.A.!!

Happy fourth everyone and with that beauty, there would be no more tailgating

You guys have entirely too much fun. What a cool truck. Happu Independence Day!

Perfect video to release on the 4th of July

Happy 4th Jaime, and thank you for this video on that awsome old military vehicle love that truck

Jaimie, you are a NUT!!! I am laughing my ass off at your comments concerning your brother Tom! You are hilarious! And all your videos are very good! Keep up the great work! FYI, I am also a great fan of the manual transmission! Nothing beats the personal approach to your vehicle's performance! I have a newer Toyota Tacoma 4X4 with a stick, and a 2002 Camaro SS/SLP with the 6 speed manual. Way, too much fun!

Oh, that knob is off a forklift btw lol.

Happy 4th to everyone over the pond in the US

So much olive drab! It's like they just dipped the whole damn thing in a vat of paint.

As a Navy veteran of Vietnam I appreciate your words and testiment to all that fought for and to keep our independence. 🙏 Including the Iron and steel! 🙂

Up here in Maine, we used to burn blueberry ground to prune the bushes and kill weeds and pests. Our team was burning a field years ago and one of the drivers got stuck with his burner and John Deere 60hp FWD tractor. The local blueberry freezer crew was burning one field over, and drove their WC55 over, and pulled our stuck 6 ton 4-wheel drive tractor and attached burner out the mud. Totally impressed...

Happy Fourth of July. Friction shocks. Somewhat common in that era. You probably already knew that. Love the channel.

Falling camera NEVER gets old. Please never stop it from doing that! 😂😂😂😂

Thanks for sharing this truck, Happy Independents Day.

Thank you Jamie. Happy Freedom Day!

Hee, we need to mix in the Rat Patrol theme for you guys chasing each other around the field. :)

Untethered camera shots are glorious. Sprinkle in a dose of crunchy transmission, and you've got internet gold. Gold, I tell you!

Happy 4th of July, Jamie! You'll get ol' Uncle Tony with that time slip from yesterday's video!

Great video of a great piece of history . Happy Independence Day, everyone! 🇺🇸

At 14:23 that is the closest I have ever seen anything appear to stop moving...but actually kept moving. Very impressive driving skills

Awesome piece of history. One additional option that would make driving that WWII rig more endurable would be it's own onboard medic.

DANG IT! You're gun's bigger than mine!!! Just to beat all of the other gunutz on here: M1 Thompson Submachine Gun .45 ACP caliber/ M1 Garand 30-06 (Patton daid it was the greatest battle implement ever devised). Don't know SQAUT about the 37mm cannon. The .50 caliber is an M2 Browning Heavy Machine gun. As you stated, just so EVERYONE can relax, the two personal arms are fakes. I'm assuming the .50 and 37mm are de-mil'd (inoperable)

Another reason this is the greatest generation ever. Could you imagine having to drive that thing in war time. That looks brutal

I love these old war Dodge rigs

Happy 4th dude! 🇺🇲

Wow what an amazing piece of American history!🇺🇲 Thanks for sharing this with us.

Happy Fourth of July from Detroit, the Arsenal of Democracy!

HAIL ALL. HAPPY FREEDOM DAY! That is an awesome rig.

Just a super example of military history. Happy 4th!

DDG mascot has reincarnated as a Dodge WC55, were coming full circle!

Great video Jamie! Happy Independence Day to you, your family, and all our fellow Americans, let freedom ring 🦅🇺🇸❤️

Nothing say 4th of July more than , Scoring a WW2 Era , WC55 Dodge M37 🇺🇲 💙 Definitely appreciate your , Indepth Historical debrief , Jamie Look at the size of that Torpedo generator !!!! Hahahahaha The look on your face 😂 During that close up.... LMAO !!!! That was a bold move Immediately road testing it Ok , you guys are having way too much fun , storming the grassy fields , of Washington state 😂 I just finished watching Tom struggle getting his NBA size 15 feet in & out of the cab . Poor Tom's personal ergonomics aren't agreeing with that M37 😬 💀

I would put that beast up against Uncle Tonys' incredible drag automatic. Those power wagons weren't known for coming in second. Straight cut gears may be that whine from the transmission. My buddy Steve in Seattle had the field car version. He would pull into the parking lot at the local beer meeting and it would always draw a crowd!

That truck is its own warning label to tailgaters. And yeah, I made a similar comment on Tom's video too. Have a great 4th!

I had a leak out of the rear wheel cylinders on my 1963 Fury for decades. I always just put fluid in and pumped. It worked every time.

I had one of these for years. You couldn't kill it. 45 MPH was it's "happy speed". Mine had 5.87 gears as most of them did. There was a rare option for 4.89 gears. I think they are available now. With that data plate and the 55 MPH speed, the original gears might have been changed. Sure miss mine, my back doesn't though.

An early arced WC grille guard, separated into 3 pieces with the headlight guards moved to the bottom and the center section hinged, serves as my fireplace grille. The old man drove and repaired WCs and 6x6s during his service at White Sands Missile Range in '46/7 as part of Operation Paperclip.

Even though you probably work on some difficult projects. You still get to work on all the COOL STUFF. Happy 4th of July.

So cool. Thanks for posting this up. God Bless America!

I know I've said it before (and will probably say it again)--your Daddy would be so proud of you! And I am, too. That was very nicely done, from start to finish.

That truck is awesome! My grandpa probably rode In one in WW2. Happy 4th of July to you and your family Jamie!

Very awesome and nice shape too. Hope it finds a loving home.

That thing is awesome. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇲❤️

I have that same basic pedal/starter set-up in my Willy's pickup. Sometimes you need 3 feet, maybe 4, to operate it.

Yes. A old man Chrysler dodge. Good job Bro. Happy 4th all you mopar people!

22:35 1976 Dodge Coronet. Love these ones! I have a 1975 Plymouth Fury : D

If I remember correctly didn't one of those old dodge and Plymouth have grease fittings on the water pump, yah that's how old I am. great video

16:08 lmao!

A 5.1 Detroit diesel engine in it would bring this thing to its max potential !Nice video.

The shift knob looked like it came off a forklift for the fork tilt function. Such a cool truck!

Most military trucks actually have built in ether bottles. So Tom is definitely not wrong for using it to start the truck.

Those guns should help you maneuver through heavy traffic.

Happy 4th of July. Perfect video for today and a fantastic truck

No Bad vibes here, Man!

Great video and yes thanks to all who have served past and present! Happy 4th to everyone.

Transmission has straight cut gears. Happy Independence Day Jamie and everyone else watching.

Happy 4th!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I'll bet you didn't have to worry about tailgaters while you were driving that beast on the road!

Impressive that you know all this 411 about this cool ass truck. Im learning 😎

When you came up over the gun shield wearing the helmet, I had a flashback of Oddball from Kelly's Heros 😊

Pretty awesome! Quite the piece of history!

Super cool old truck!

I agree with everything you said in the ending!

Fine job Jamie, Regards from Ody Slim

Nice set of wheels you got there!

Thank you to all the men and women who gave and keep are Independents

Well said 🇺🇸

Nice ! It's amazing how much use Chrysler got out of that 23" engine they introduced in 1928 for the new Desoto brand. Probably the best engine development investment Chrysler made other than the slant six. I've got a 1941 WC22 1/2 ton (still has its winch) and I cringed watching you shift HaHa!! I grew up with non synchro stuff, and I guess it's just second nature, to me they shift great. That noise is the rear end, for sure, not the trans or transfer case. Probably was run low on oil and burned the gears. Check to see if it has oil in it !! Most of these 3/4 tons had the same 9 5/8" 5.83 ratio as the civvy Power Wagons and M37, but some of the really early ones had the 8 3/4" like the 1/2 tons, but 5.83 as opposed to the 1/2 ton 4.89.... Thanks for sharing !!

Ouch - glad it's not my transmission...

You are tearing that transmission up. Double clutch....😃

Cool truck

this was one fun video ! also , happy 4th

Hi Jamie greetings from the Misty hills of Tennessee I hope you and your family is doing well 😁👍

Great choice of rigs for the holiday! Next thing ya know you guys are going to figure out how to pull some Montucky sh*t and convert all those mock weapons to mounted paintball guns. That would be legendary! I swear you are trolling us viewers with this: 10:45 after showing the PTO stuff and uninstalled winch hardware. I will pass the word on the for sale to a few folks. My pops is still kicking and doing all the funerals with the Marine Corps League so chances are good one of these guys will "know a guy who knows a guy" looking for something like this.

Happy 4th to you.

.50 cal = 1/2" long range cordless drill. Truck has the multi-hole pattern model fitted.

Happy 4th of July, everybody.

Duuuuuude..that thing is SIC....

That sound reminds me of straight cut gears in the transfer case. Noisy! Lol

Happy 4th DDG Family.

Great video happy 4th to u

Didn't these have Dana rear and front axles 🤔👍🏻 happy Fourth of July brother 🤘🏻🏁

OMG that poor transmission! That whine in 4th gear is not a sound you want to hear. The sound of gears crashing during shifts by peeps who who apparently don't know how to double clutch is jarring! Great show Jamie...happy Independence Day!

Oddball lives!

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my boy bought a carry all that had been a radio truck. 1942. it was 12v from the factory. looks like the one you have on the video

Happy 4th Jamie

Do a BFV next! It may not be a Mopar but it does have a Cummins V8 and is a lot cooler because instead of a gun behind you there's a gun in front of you.

Happy 4th. Noticed it’s from New York long drive to where you are it’s where I am though ( up state)

Given the choice of owning one of those as a daily driver or a brand new Mopar, you can guess which I would choose and it wouldn't be the one with the junky engine and transmission, tons of electrical issues and plastic interior.

Happy 4th of July.