GMC AFKWX 1939 Prototype Tipper truck

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GMC AFKWX 1939 Prototype Tipper truck

Post by Prop Trailer » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:56 am

Visited a guy in The Netherlands who reconstituted the only one built GMC 352 AFKWX prototype tipper; he used 4 (!!) 1943/1944 GMC cargo wrecks from France and had the tipper bed fully reconstructed as per very hard to find pictures / drawings.
According to this bloke there is not much info available in books and on the internet about this rare on DUCK wheels positioned truck.

Have a couple of pictures, sorry cannot upload. If some-one interested (in helping me), I could email the pics through pm for uploading.

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Re: GMC AFKWX 1939 Prototype Tipper truck

Post by wc56daveyboy » Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:44 am

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Robert. This is a beautiful truck!
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Re: GMC AFKWX 1939 Prototype Tipper truck

Post by Joe Gopan » Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:45 am

Fred Crismon's "Military Wheeled Vehicles" is a good reference book for that era.
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