A real monster truck.

[hardware]

Not sure if this is entirely the right place for this, but as I can't get into the pit yet (mainly due to a lack of being here, much to BadWaterBill's dismay!) it goes here. I found this link on one of my favorite car sites to dream on (bringatrailer.com) and it's a very interesting vehicle to a young person like myself, who wasn't around when these were (slightly) more common.

https://portland.craigslist.org/nco/cto/4876531713.html

[Beagle333]

Man.... if I was a silly-rich lotto winner... I'd buy that just to play with. :D

[hardware]

My first question is, how would you get it from there to wherever? Would it fit on a low boy trailer with clearance for interstate bridges?

[MaryB]

Now that would be fun to play with! Would make the ultimate off road camper/bug out vehicle with some minor work!

[WILCO]

http://images.craigslist.org/00303_4jbUTzT2rxc_600x450.jpg

[Echo]

These were introduced @ Orlando AFB when I was an instructor there. I was on the Matador, predecessor to the Mace, and was not involved in Mace stuff, but it was fun watching the troops run these around...

[Artful]

http://www.tacmissileers.org/mm1-terracruiser/
http://www.tacmissileers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mastheadg.jpg
http://www.mace-b.com/38TMW/Missiles/MM-1.htm (http://www.mace-b.com/38TMW/Missiles/MM-1.htm)
http://www.squadron.com/v/vspfiles/photos/RM7812-2T.jpg

[tommag]

A 6-71 Detroit in 1957? That 238 hp motor was pretty state of the art back then! Coupled with an automatic transmission, I bet it got 140 horses to the wheels!

[RED333]

Not mine, it is out back of a car museum here in Nashville close to where I work.
I used to know the name, but just cant right now.
It is my dream BOV

http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/BOV/d073053e-4fa0-463b-8d99-800387e29b18_zpsd468bc5b.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/BOV/d073053e-4fa0-463b-8d99-800387e29b18_zpsd468bc5b.jpg.html)
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/redintn/BOV/6dff1dcf-2daa-4319-a213-0e08d74c21ea_zps4925657c.jpg (http://s896.photobucket.com/user/redintn/media/BOV/6dff1dcf-2daa-4319-a213-0e08d74c21ea_zps4925657c.jpg.html)

Yes it does have 2, 3 foot props in the back under the water line.

[Artful]

Looks like a "super duck" or "Drake" - aka BARC (Barge, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo) or LARC-LX
(Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 60 ton - it's weight)
- well actual max was 100 tons.

BARC Amphibious Craft

The BARC (Barge Amphibious Resupply Cargo) is a 60-ton cargo capacity amphibious cargo carrier, the heaviest of the amphibious lighters. It was later designated as the Lighter, Amphibious Resupply Cargo, 60-ton (LARC-LX) borrowing the name of the much smaller LARC. The BARC / LARC-LX is a wheeled vehicle that drives from the ocean or waterway onto a beach. It was the only amphibian in the Army inventory capable of landing on a beach through breaking surf.

The maiden voyage of the BARC was at Fort Lawton, WA, in 1952 followed by its first operational mission at Frobisher Bay in the Baffin Islands in 1956. Also in 1956, the BARC worked the beaches at Sondrestom Air Base, Greenland, and four others were used at Thule, Greenland in 1958, moving over 4,000 tons of cargo. BARC was used in Vietnam to transport wheeled and tracked vehicles, including beach preparation equipment and general cargo, from ship to shore or to inland transfer points. The last US Army company operating these vehicles was decommissioned on 15 October 2001.

Typical loads for the BARC would be one of or a mixture of:

125 combat troops
2 wheeled vehicles
4 twenty-foot containers
2 forty-foot containers

The BARC was deck-loaded on a commercial vessel or heavy lift ship for transport overseas. The U.S. Army had a peak inventory of 12 BARC vehicles.
Length 63 feet
Beam 27 feet
Draft (Full Load) 9 feet
Speed (Full Load) 7.5 knots
Top Speed was 20 mph (32 km/h) on Land
Crew 8
Cargo Capacity 60 short tons

The LARC-LX tires are nine-feet high, The vehicle was powered by four 265 hp (198 kW) GMC diesel engines positioned in the sides of the hull, each of which drove one wheel on land. They convert to two pairs of engines to turn the twin 1.2 m (47 in) diameter propellers when afloat. Two 300-gallon fuel tanks supply the engines.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puzi3zMqcZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvOfheb5b0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOwMmkP-94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3cbXrS3W-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkk7P25tBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVu9w0wTB5w

this must be the place...
http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/larc-lx-1959

they sure like to crush cars there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd-qN4DHLHo

http://www.militarytrader.com/military-vehicles-news/a-%E2%80%98whale%E2%80%99-of-an-amphibian-the-larc-lx

http://olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_barc.php
http://olive-drab.com/images/id_barc_02_700.jpg
http://militarymashup.com/mmu_get_jpeg.php?18efb17217daf5d3e71c66ca094b7b3c7