Junkyard Find: Toasted 1967 Jeep M725 Ambulance
Most of the time, you don’t find much in the way of usable parts on a vehicle that went up in flames, but that doesn’t stop wrecking yards from making a go at selling a few parts before the Crusher eats the burn victim. Here’s a Vietnam Era military Jeep truck that may have a few salvageable bits and pieces.
This one appears to have had a small-block Chevy transplant at some point.
We had some fires in the mountains near Denver over the summer, so it’s possible that this truck got roasted at that time. Or it could have been one of those electrical-fire-that-spreads-to-fuel deals.
It appears that a fairly serious ceiling-mounted heater system once lived here.
Plenty of beefy suspension and driveline stuff that appears intact. Will any of this stuff fit Jeep Gladiators?
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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Love the photos Murilee. I find there's something particularly evocative of flaking paint, rust and decay. They remind me of the 'Urban Exploration' forum photos where people get into abandoned buildings and photograph them.
Love the shot of the half-charred caduceus. It's now my desktop background.