BUCKEYE BEASTS
Subscriber Paul Watts of Clovis, California, sent us a photocopy of the January 1946 edition of trade publication, which touted the Eisenhauer twin-engine truck (top and bottom right), out of Van Wert, Ohio. Boasting five axles in total, the two standard Chevy stovebolt six-cylinder 235-cu.in., 93-hp engines werewas built years later (bottom left); it was ultimately rejected by the Army. Known as the X-2, it used twin GMC 302 sixes and sat at the Eisenhauer facilities where it was eventually purchased for the tank. Whether they were scrapped, parted out, or put out to pasture in rural Ohio, we’d love to know if you know.
