Pictures of CAP Vehicles

Started by cpyahoo, January 21, 2012, 11:23:26 PM

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cpyahoo

Anyone have any pictures of any old CAP ground team vehicles?  I mean, REAL old!  Starting about 1990 and back.  I try to explain to my cadets what ground team vehicles looked like "back in the day" when I was a cadet (1984-1989) and they look at me like I'm speaking in Yiddish.  Just curious if anybody out there has any...

cpyahoo

This was VERY common for us... 
This particular rig was with the Esterville Composite Squadron, Iowa Wing.  It was a regular up at Blue Beret in the 1980s.  Had a red light and siren!  We had one just like it on Land Rescue Team #46, Group #9, Wisconsin Wing.  LOL  All our ground team vehicles were equipped with red lights and sirens!

http://www.blueberet.org/CAP-AMB.jpg


NEBoom

Expedition Jeep 6bt M725 Project

Found this video of a former CAP M725 field ambulance which shows the truck well.  He's doing some mods to it, but it's similar to the ones we had back in the day.  We didn't have a Cummins in ours...   :)

He says he's going to keep the heater in the back, I think that's a good call on his part.  If he ever gets it running again he's going to be amazed.  WIWAC I was riding in that seat one winter day with my foot right in front of the heater vent (heat comes out of a big duct below the seat).  I noticed after a bit the back of my leg and heel was getting hot.  I reached down and touched the back of my boot and found the heater had melted the polish!

We used them during snow emergencies (read major blizzards) in Lincoln, transporting doctors and nurses to the hospitals for their shifts.  It literally could not snow enough to stop one of these.  Put it in 4X4 and low gear range and I think it would just about climb a vertical wall (never tried to of course..).  The thing was slow, uncomfy, and drew stares from everyone who saw us, but it had torque like nobody's business, and plenty of room for a ground team and all the gear.  All in all a great vehicle.  Lots of great memories from those times.
Lt Col Dan Kirwan, CAP
Nebraska Wing

cpyahoo

When I was on Land Rescue Team #46 "a million years ago" in Wisconsin Wing, we had a Kaiser Field ambulance posted in Mayville, a CUCV truck converted to a utility body to be our "rescue truck" in West Bend and a Kaiser M-715 with a camper shell as our "comm truck" over in Sheboygan.  One in each county in our group.
     Milwaukee E.S. Squadron had a Dodge M-770 field ambulance and a Dodge R-3 USAF rescue truck for their ground team vehicles.  They always got the good stuff first!  Racine Comp. Sqdn. was ground pounding in a 1966 Chevy van!  LOL

sardak

Here's another CAP ambulance, complete with crew.

Another fine CAP vehicle

And the backbone of the ground team fleet

CAP Dodge Power Wagon

as used here

Ground Team Vehicle of Choice - Dodge Power Wagon

Mike

jimmydeanno

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

cpyahoo

SARDAK... that is hysterical!!!  They probably got it from DRMO just like that!  LOL  The Dodge Power Wagon... oh, yeah!  Saw several of those in the by-gone days.  They were to us what the CUCVs are now.  Stout as all get-out and you couldn't ever kill them!

cpyahoo


Grumpy

Quote from: sardak on January 22, 2012, 09:03:42 PM
Here's another CAP ambulance, complete with crew.

Another fine CAP vehicle

And the backbone of the ground team fleet

CAP Dodge Power Wagon

as used here

Ground Team Vehicle of Choice - Dodge Power Wagon

Mike

I remember using the power wagons as SAT vehicles when I was in SAC.

Garibaldi

I have several pictures of the various vehicles we used during the 70s and 80s. All the pictures were borrowed from another site and are not my personal property.


This was our squadron CC's personal jeep.


We also had a mule


The GAWG staff car


These three vehicles saw us through the 80s, until they were retired to make way for the blue vans and pickups. The ambulance in the middle used to be OG until they made us repaint not only the giant red cross to blue, but the entire van to white.


I'm guessing these vehicles guided us through the transition from military surplus jeeps and 1 1/4 ton pickups to military surplus crew cabs and vans.


Our very own 1 1/4 ton pickup, otherwise known as a five-quarter.

Still a major after all these years.
ES dude, leadership ossifer, publik affaires
Opinionated and wrong 99% of the time about all things

754837

Quote from: cpyahoo on January 21, 2012, 11:23:26 PM
Anyone have any pictures of any old CAP ground team vehicles?  I mean, REAL old!  Starting about 1990 and back.  I try to explain to my cadets what ground team vehicles looked like "back in the day" when I was a cadet (1984-1989) and they look at me like I'm speaking in Yiddish.  Just curious if anybody out there has any...

"REAL old!"  Pre 1990.... now I feel REAL old!

754837

This was taken around 1977 during rappelling training at a rock quarry.   This was our "nice truck"! 

bosshawk

"Real Old" really depends on your current age.  Real old to me does not relate to 1990, since I was commissioned in 1957: now that is REAL OLD!!!!
Paul M. Reed
Col, USA(ret)
Former CAP Lt Col
Wilson #2777

Grumpy

Quote from: bosshawk on October 19, 2012, 10:54:54 PM
"Real Old" really depends on your current age.  Real old to me does not relate to 1990, since I was commissioned in 1957: now that is REAL OLD!!!!

Oh wow!  Somebody older than I !  😃

Eeyore

I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.

jimmydeanno

Quote from: Eeyore on October 20, 2012, 01:25:54 AM
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.

This...is...awesome.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

a2capt

Seeing all these vehicles .. this assorted collection ..


Makes me think of something else from the era of most of these photos..

Garibaldi

Quote from: Eeyore on October 20, 2012, 01:25:54 AM
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.

Isn't that thing still at Timmerman? I swear I saw it there, along with a few planes in the MESS/10th Sr Spt Sqdn hangar a few years ago
Still a major after all these years.
ES dude, leadership ossifer, publik affaires
Opinionated and wrong 99% of the time about all things

rjfoxx

I don't have picture of this vehicle, but I believe that it is the oldest active vehicle in the CAP fleet.  It is a 1972 International box van that started off as a book-mobile then was used by the Delaware State Police as a Command Post.  The DSP gave the van to the DEWG several years ago.  "The BoB" is used as a Communications Command vehicle.  Pictures have been posted on CAP-Talk in the past.  The inside has been completely refinished with new radios, computers, etc. and the exterior will eventually be re-painted CAP white when the necessary funds are raised. 
Major Richard J Foxx, CAP
Health Service Officer - DEWG
IG Inspector - DEWG

Private Investigator

My brother's 1985 Toyota 4x4 truck was the ultimate GT vehicle back then.  :clap:  I saw a Honda Civic with a "Find" decal so that is a gas friendly UDF vehicle.   ;D