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11-04-2009, 09:49 AM
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U.S. Army articulated truck
I ran across this vehicle at my local military museum. There wasn't a placard or anything with any information, nor did I take note of the model number, but it is a post-WW2 articulated truck- what looks like a trailer is connected to the vehicle by the transmission u-joint and those rear wheels are powered. I thought some of the armor modelers here on the forum would be interested.
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11-04-2009, 10:12 AM
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11-04-2009, 10:38 AM
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Yep, that's a Gamma Goat!
 It could go a lot of places the jeep couldn't, but really couldn't haul much more. It was loud as all get out and, as I recall, prone to maintenance issues. I had one Lieutenant Colonel say about the Gamma Goat, "It is like two dipsy dumpsters with wheels linked together":p ...some folks I know swore by them, though. It would definately make an interesting model subject.
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12-11-2012, 03:42 PM
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i used ot work on these when i was in the army in the 70's, they were hard to shift and a pain to work on!
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12-11-2012, 04:40 PM
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Looks like a plastic model of the vehicle is available. $84.95
M561 Gama Goat Kit #1-001 - Commander Models, Inc. Welcome to Commander Models Armor
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12-11-2012, 09:16 PM
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Yale With all this manual labor, I may not make it out of retirement alive.
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12-12-2012, 03:07 PM
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Book from Tankograd publishing: TANKOGRAD Publishing - Verlag Jochen Vollert - Militärfahrzeug: M520 Goer - M561 Gama Goat<br>Articulated Trucks of the US Army in the Cold War
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