Somewhere else in this forum, can't remember where or when I wrote it, but I met not one, but 2 parties, military personel in Korea, that had such bad experiences with the M29 that they said they emphatically would never ride in one. I got a similar response from an Alaskan of my aquaintence. Seems that they detracked as soon as look at them. There was a gentleman in Anchorage that converted the weasels to 'Scat Tracks', a belted track system similar to what's on a J5 Bombardiere. I've seen 4 or 5 of the conversions, all owned by hunters. On one ocassion, while inspecting the Trans Alaska Pipeline around Glenellen Ak, one of the Not Converted models showed up at the Caribou Inn, a motel there frequented by lots of hunters with track rigs.(this is where I saw most of the Converted units). Hunters stood around it saying stuff like "Good Luck!"(Sarcastically) or "I wouldn't ride it that" in any event later the next day it sat, De-Tracked, blocking the Right-of-Way access to the pipeline. Fortunatly there was an alternate route or Alyeska would probably have shoved it out of the way with a dozer AND Charged the owner for moving it. One party claimed that they were made for "ONE Time Use" in an Army Magazine Article, but I have never been able to substaintiate this. They did have awfully small bogey wheels, about 3 or 4 inches in diameter. The units had A Good Drive Train, that was powered by a Studebaker in-line 6. As they manufactured some 29,000 of the units, it's suprising how few you see around. The President of the MVPA (Millitary Vehicle Preservation Association) had a trashed out one in his yard in Utah. He said about all they were good for was 'Target Practice'. He preffered something a bit more substantial, Half Tracks, and had quite a collection of Tracked Millitary machines. The development and production of the M29 is often mistaken for the "OTTER", a much more heavy duty Military track rig. There was a model of WEASEL that had a pontoon set that made it float, but these are fairly rare. I've only seen pictures and havn't seen an actual machine with it's pontoon set at any Museum.