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                        Please ID this machine...

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Please ID this machine...
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:04 PM
                        Need to know what this is.
                        Thanks
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                        stukabomb88
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Alberta, Canada
                        Posted by stukabomb88 on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:14 PM
                        Not sure...

                        Possibly an American AA prototype

                        Some sort of APC maybe
                        "If you live for personal gain, you have lived in vain." -Devon OpdenDries
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                        Spamicus
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                          April 2003
                        • From: Central Wisconsin
                        Posted by Spamicus on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:16 PM
                        It looks like an M113 with some ACAV gun shields on it.

                        Steve

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                        renarts
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Sunny Florida
                        Posted by renarts on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:29 PM
                        m113 has 6 road wheels. This one has 5.

                        a member of the m113 family is the m106 heavy mortar carrier. Could be a variant of it...


                        Mike
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                        Rob Gronovius
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Fort Knox
                        Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:30 PM
                        He's right, it is the M113 ACAV (armored cavalry vehicle). Tamiya does one, just got one in the mail for $10. Kit #35135.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:40 PM
                        Thanks everyone, guess I know what my next project will be...
                        Robert
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                        renarts
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Sunny Florida
                        Posted by renarts on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:46 PM
                        Learn something new every day, thanks.

                        Mike
                        Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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                        Rob Gronovius
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Fort Knox
                        Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:47 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by renarts

                        m113 has 6 road wheels. This one has 5.

                        a member of the m113 family is the m106 heavy mortar carrier. Could be a variant of it...


                        Mike
                        I'm staring at my M113 ACAV kit and it has 5 road wheels per side, same as my Academy M113A2 kit and the same number as the actual M113A2, M113A3, M1064, M901 ITV vehicles I have at work.

                        BTW, M106 doesn't have external fuel tanks. The vehicle pictured above is either the M1064 120mm mortar carrier (M113A2 based) or the M1064A3 (M113A3 based).
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                        renarts
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                          April 2003
                        • From: Sunny Florida
                        Posted by renarts on Friday, May 14, 2004 9:01 PM
                        Yeah, Rob, thanks I know.Blush [:I]

                        I was looking at the ambulance.
                        Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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                        HeavyArty
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, May 14, 2004 9:07 PM
                        Renarts,
                        The standard M113 - M113A3 family of vehicles has 5 road wheels. The vehicle you are talking about above is the new M113A4 MTVL. It is stretched 3 feet and has one extra road wheel. The US Army is not buying this version, but Canada is buying a bunch as well as some other countries. Check here for more info on all sorts of varients of the M113A4.

                        www.uniteddefense.com/www.m113.com/m113_vehicles.html
                        Copy and paste it into your browser address bar and enter. It will not link directly due to a wierd address. Click on MTVL links.

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                        jkeller
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Grand Blanc, MI USA
                        Posted by jkeller on Saturday, May 15, 2004 12:29 AM
                        That did look familar. There was a feature of one in the Finescale Vietnam issue, April 03. It was very detailed. He even made a Tabasco sauce bottle for it. Here is a link to the article
                        http://www.finescale.com/fsm/objects/pdf/m113masterpiece.pdf
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