It’s 4-wheel drive, has almost no miles on it, and looks like some kind of military tug or something. We’re not sure what it lived its life doing, but we certainly want to know the story. It’s real money, but man is is cool as hell. The axles are insane, it has air ride, the 6.2 is probably ready for it’s first oil change, but hasn’t had enough miles to care what has been done to it. Sure it probably has idled for the equivalent of years, but hey it’s cool as hell.
I’m not sure what the axles are, but they are giant and seem to feature bold on axle tubes. With pintle hooks on both ends and lots of d-rings they certainly expected heavy duty things to be going on with this one. It may have been a lot rig for just moving big equipment around on trailers, I’m not sure. It doesn’t seem to have a 5-wheel plate on it so I assume it didn’t haul that type of trailer much, but it could have been dragging who knows what else around.
If you have a clue as to what these are/were used for then let us know because this thing is just fun to look at.
Here is what the seller has to say about it.
1985 chevrolet eagle bobtail tractor 4×4 4 wheel steering 1184 miles 6.2 diesel 400 transmission sale or trade no junk call or text.
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Aircraft mule?
The photos do not show all of the rear. It looks like it might have had a lifting boom. No photos of the data plates. I would say it was ordered by an up-fitter from GM. Then after conversion sold to the DOD. CUCV’s aka D-10 (blazer) or D-30 (1 ton regular cab pick up) have red interior panels & seats. That truck is 80’s GM Tan (beige), that was up-fitter painted DOD Green.
Eagle MB-4 aircraft tug. Tows something like 100K lbs. Probably only does 12 mph at wide open.
I worked on those trucks and built them on grosse Ile Michigan it is called an mb4 tell tractor we built them from everything for the air Force to the Navy in the Marines. The axles are ZF from Germany front steering rear steering I loved working on that program. She will push or Pull a fully loaded 747 750000 lb