AM General M-35
AM General M-35 in Viper, Movie, 1988
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-11-19 18:59 |
AM General M-35 |
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◊ 2015-11-20 04:09 |
What helps here to differentiate a 1971+ AM General model from a 1963+ Kaiser-Jeep truck or even from a 1950+ Reo one? |
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◊ 2015-11-20 06:41 |
Cruelle question. D'après ce que j'en comprends (Olive drab, en.wiki), il y a un engin de base, le Reo M-35 (1950+), puis trois variantes, M-35 A1, M-35 A2, M-35 A3. La dernière, 1994 AM General M-35 A3, est apparemment bien repérée par nos services. Il faut dire que sa face camuse aide. Mais pour le reste, c'est l'anarchie ou plutôt le chaos, y compris dans les dates "défaut" de production (on trouve un grand nombre de "1955" assez obscurs). Et pourtant on distingue bien des différences entre les camions (la plus manifeste est celle de la position des phares, moyenne ou haute). Mais il semble bien qu'on ne puisse mettre la main sur un ouvrage de référence définitif (un qui permettrait de dire "position haute = Kaiser 63, variante A2" ou quelque chose du genre). Though possible reference sites evoked them (Olive drab, en.wiki), the M-35 story —and its variants' A1, A2— is not well known of us. The notable exception being 1994 AM General M-35 A3, with its characteristic face. All the reste is named and dated (when dated) rather hapazardly here (many "1955" I still can't understand, for instance), though we can see noticeable differences between the trucks (the most blatant being the position of the headlights). It seems we lack a solid and definitive reference book or umpire. |
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◊ 2015-11-20 19:36 |
Si cruauté il y a de ma part, c'est bien involontaire. L'idée de base était juste de comprendre les raisons de cette identification pour pouvoir la reproduire .gif ":)") Several things I'm (more or less) sure about the dates: • Reo made the first vehicles (1950+); • Kaiser-Jeep make name appeared in 1963 only, so no models with this make before that; • The Defense and Government Products Division of Kaiser-Jeep became AM General in April 1971 (same link): no KJ models after 1971 nor AM-G trucks before 1971. The only unknown part for me in this time-line is the switch between Reo and Kaiser-Jeep: Reo's vehicle manufacturing operations were sold in 1954, the make became a subsidiary of White in 1957 and was merged with Diamond T Trucks in 1967 (source: Wikipedia). Did Reo make these trucks until 1963 or until 1967? Or was it just 1950-54? But if we assume that Kaiser-Jeep started the production in 1963 and not some years later, which make made the trucks between 1954 and 1963, in the latter case? As you say, a solid source is needed -- Last edit: 2015-11-20 19:37:05 |
