M3A1 driving in the snow

[@okrajoe]

Cool to see these old half-tracks on the move.

[@9_19Ming]

M2 M3 M5 half track are my biggesssssssst love !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💙💙💚💚💛💛

[@refealibazeta7886]

My favorite WW2 armored vehicle. I love them so much. I have 8 of this models by Tamiya,new ray,revelle brands. I want to get an R.C remote control one. We have an army surplus here in Idaho Falls. And they have a real one inside the store.

[@Cormano980]

Get the Torro one , and upgrade it with the elmod board , it's fantastic

[@kenc9236]

Hello from BC Canada. As a ww2 nut this video is awesome to put vehicles in context. Bravo.

[@VeteransMuseum]

This half-track was originally built as a M3 GMC with a 75mm gun mounted on it for tank destroyer duties. The M3 GMCs were ineffective against German armor and were replaced by M10 GMCs. The M3 GMCs were then sent back to be rebuilt. This half-track is one of the 1,360 M3 GMCs that were converted by Autocar to M3A1s. Sometime later in it's history the M49 machine gun ring mount was removed and replaced with a M25 pedestal mount. That would mean that it is a M3A1 in M3 configuration.

[@gearz2570]

VeteransMuseum and artillery duties

[@LusciousBrown]

Like a old dog rolling around in the snow

[@dirtbiker4lfe]

Nice, I would love to get my scout car out like this one day. Much more fun then watching them sit idle on display.

[@gregfair1749]

Awesome!!!!!! I hope one day to have one of my own!!!!!! there's a few places near me here in Montana that have them.

[@cometchris1090]

Who needs to spin wheels when you got tracks instead?

[@allgood6760]

Awesome 👍

[@lssah2025]

So M3 75 GMC that was converted to a M3A1 and then back to a standard M3, would still make it a M3, since there is no ring mount, so it is only semantics, but since it doesn't have the M49 it is better to list it as a M3 so non-HT people know the correct nomenclature.

[@d.springer8444]

I have asked this question on other videos no one will answer, what is the drum , roller or front of the half track ?

[@paulmorneault3994]

when you drove through a ditch or climbed a steep embankment it let the front end roll up instead of digging in

[@heartland96a]

@@paulmorneault3994exactly

[@nerfninja661]

Would love howe and howe to build a modern one

[@kuntakinte4333]

Uncle Sam on his way to school. The mountains, lakes and snipers are missing..😄

[@gearz2570]

i want one of those

[@johnbobson248]

AWESOME!

[@VicsYard]

Real cool.

[@slaughterhound8793]

Yuki no Shingun intensifying.

[@egSmith-sp9gl]

What about 3" of snow !!!!

[@SaschaDBrickman]

Looks like in the Ardennes 1944/1945

[@glblb3030]

is it hard to steer

[@heartland96a]

No the Ross steering is very good except if your standing still on pavement , then if you creep the vehicle foreword or back the steering effort is reduced. It a combination of the steering wheel diameter and the ratio in the steering box and its design

[@desubtilizer]

Seeing that they put sandbags on top of the front mudguards to keep the front down it may have been. Unlike German halftracks which could also use their tracks to steer using skid steering the US halftracks were reliant on the front wheels for steering. The US halftracks used rubber tracks whereas the German halftracks used metal tracks.

[@daniellocke9534]

M-3 converted to M-16A1

[@ytwos1]

White in the snow.

[@aapenkooi1234]

look the difference up i am not good in engish because im from holland, i dont know how to explain it in english

[@aapenkooi1234]

thats just an m3 not an m3a1

[@desubtilizer]

m3a1 has the M49 machine gun ring that is absent on the M3 as in the video

[@rcnelson]

Nice that they let it out of its cage for a day, but it'd be better if it faced some real snow.

[@heartland96a]

They don’t do all that well in deeper snow say up to the bumper or on slopes . They did make chains to fit the tracks for mud and ice. Standard tire chain can be put on the wheels

[@paintballedcrazed55]

i think they know what it is as its an ameracin half-track!

[@didierbarral2341]

Tyler Halberda t

[@Mr.Bobcat1776]

Just needs a Cummins

[@heartland96a]

It has an iconic sound , not sure how much it would change with a Cummins