Which is a big deal given that it hasn't been driven in almost two decades. Yeah, that's not a lot of oomph for a truck of this size, but this US6 has no issues strolling through muddy terrain and uneven fields. An inline-six of the L-head variety, the JXD was rated at 86 horsepower and 200 pound-feet (271 Nm) of torque when new.
It may not be a proper survivor, but it does rely on an original 320-cubic-inch (5.2-liter) Hercules JXD engine. The truck you're about to see below was rebuilt back in the early 1980s with parts from two different haulers. And while many of them are waiting to be fixed, some are running like they just finished military service. YouTube's "AlaskaTrucker" is one of those guys who owns quite a few Studebaker haulers. Which is a good thing, because the US6 needs to live on in as many examples as possible. They're not extremely valuable, but some diehard fans are not only chasing these trucks but also hoarding them. With most trucks shipped to Europe during WWII, the Studebaker US6 is quite the rare truck in the U.S. But some US6 trucks were also operated in North America, mainly for construction purposes (including the Alaska Highway). Army simply found that the GMC was more suitable for Western Front conditions.
Many of them were sent to the Soviet Union, where they hauled everything from artillery pieces and anti-tank guns to troops.īut was the US6 inferior to the CCKW? By no means. Army, the Studebaker US6 was exported under the Lend-Lease policy. In addition to that, while the GMC CCKW was primarily operated by the U.S. Most of them were put together by Studebaker, but about 10% of US6 production was handled by REO, the company founded by Ransom E. The US6, on the other hand, spawned only 220,000 examples. And GMC eventually built more than a half-million units in four years. Well, the CCKW became the 6圆 hauler of choice for the U.S. They also look very similar, so what exactly sets them apart, and what makes the GMC the more popular truck? And both were produced until the conflict ended in 1945. Both the CCKW and the US6 were introduced in 1941, right before the U.S.
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