1953 Dodge M37 3/4 ton Military Cargo Truck

In ????, I purchased a 1953 Dodge M37 from a farmer just outside of Huntsville, Alabama.  I had originally contacted him when a buddy of mine from outside Atlanta called me to let me know that he had located a civilian Power Wagon for me to go look at.   The short version of the story is that after driving from Raleigh to Huntsville to look at the 1950 B2 Power Wagon that the farmer had for sale, I ended up making a package deal for the civilian truck and two M37's.  It should be stated that all three of the trucks where in very sad shape, but I had the fever...

My plan was to get the M37 fixed up just well enough to be usuable as a "beater," then to restore the civilian truck.  After I had the civilian truck fixed up, I figured I would sell off the M37 and its parts truck to someone else.

Plans changed.  The more I worked on the M37, the more I liked it.   Meanwhile, the civilian Power Wagon had a lot more problems than I had originally noticed during my trip to Alabama, and work on it kept getting postponed.  One day, I had a phone call from a guy in Georgia who heard that I had a civilian Power Wagon that might be for sale...  Two weeks later, I had parted with the 1950 B2 Power Wagon.

Since then, I've been working steadily on the M37.