A small number of these were sold here in Manitoba. The windshield was not popular as it let the cold air in when driving in the fall/winter. It was common for guys to replace the windshield with a standard one and re-weld in the missing portion onto the back of the body. There were actually about a dozen windshields and the cut out back plates laying out in the local mil salvage yard.
The recoiless rifle jeeps were usually low mileage trucks. About the only real problem I saw with them when they were being sold was that most had their original engines (somewhat tired) whereas the normal M38A1s with around 35,000 miles usually had new replacement engines.
There is a collector on this site who has the recoiless rifle for his Jeep. Not something you would want to take offroading, but certainly makes for a nice display.
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