mick.wilson

Here are some more photos of the truck, looking a bit of a Frankenstein monster that's for sure.

Fixing up my own truck :wink:

OK just call it £20,000 then :wink:

£30K per truck :shock: wow looks like you owe me some money Cara :wink: . So far it has cost us: £1500 For the cost of the truck £100 on paint £200 on metal but there's lots more to buy so total costs so far is £1800 but add my bill for the 3 months work, Was it 30K minus the £1800, that's £28,200 you owe me Cara ? :wink: I'm rich 8) :lol: :lol: :lol: Mick.

Thanks Jack but there is not a lot I can tell you about the GMC Clubmobile truck's, apart from the 40+ photos I have collected mostly from the internet. After studying the pictures in so much detail over the last 3 months or so trying to get as much info as possible from them, I feel as if I have brainwashed myself with most of the modifications made by ARC to the standard LWB truck but that's about where it ends. We have found no historic information about the building of the trucks, no diagrams, no makers info. We have asked just about everybody we can think of, the historical information departments in the US Army, GMC, ARC and many more. Cara has phoned and emailed everybody and there seems to be very little info out there, Cara can tell you the in's and out's of most Clubmobiles and the route's they took across France and even the names of the girls that drove them, but there is no info on the trucks before their issue to the ARC. Mick P.S "make and sell me one" no thanks Jack one is enough :wink:

Very good quality, almost looks digital. Looks like its picked up dent in the cab roof box on the colour photo but both have a bent cab steep.

Got a B&W photo of the same truck.

Wow, thats the first colour photo I have ever seen. Thanks, got any more ?. Mick

Thanks Jack, I have not see the pictures before 8) Mick.

Made some adjustments to the Workshop body today, had Jeremy welding the extra cross supports, so we could cut the hatch ways out and Woody on the roof cleaning.

Thanks Jack, NO I would not like to build another one, this one is bad enough, when we started it all looked allot easier but the more work I put in the more things I find I have to do (and my May deadline is approaching fast). I have just got back from a snowboarding trip in Poland and have another 2 weeks in Kazakhstan planed for the end of March, so it will be a mad rush to get everything sorted in time. We are strengthening the old Workshop body at the moment ready to cut the hatches and wheel arches out of it. Should get some more photos up this weekend. Mick.

That's the chassis extension fitted, we now have one of (if not) the longest GMC trucks in the country. Mick.

Well the Clubmobile has slowed down a bit, the work I have been doing is a bit boring and time consuming (pulling the inside to bits), every screw and bolt feels as if it has never been moved before. We have finished the extra chasse length and its ready to be put on. After look at photos of Clubmobiles, I have made the rear chasse section as close to the photos as possible (with the two bits of extra chasse protruding from the towing cross member for the body to sit on instead of bumpers), also the spare wheel has to hang under the chasse at this point (you may be able to see it strapped underneath on photo "1") We have had the engine running and I sounds great (now) but I had to swap the cylinder head over due to a sticking valve :cry: . Mick.

We have two CCKW-352, but there's no way we are going to change our unit now, we have spent all of last year getting kited out as Yanks and getting our Red Ball Express display looking the part. Have a look.... http://www.514th.co.uk Mick.

That's right but its dated 1942 and who's to say that the Yank's didn't have a few Commonwealth Bofor's, even the Germans were using them and besides do you know how hard it is to get a U.S made Bofors over here :shock: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Luftwaffe-Flak-Troops-w-40mm-Bofors-in-Gun-Pit_W0QQitemZ6601994958QQcategoryZ104000QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Mick.

No its not Jack's one, he must be working on this Sherman by now :wink: Mick.

I have P.M you shopnut. Mick.

The is grill back on and a bit more red paint on the bonnet. Mick.

At last , I have finished the engine off, just missing the pipe from the fuel filter to the pump that is stopping me from firing her up (not so sure about the Norwegian purple H.T leads) . Off on holiday next week but will start on the cab interior after a well earnt week away from GMC's.

A Sherman ! thats 6 months worth of the rebuilding on its own Jack :lol: . Sounds good to me Shopnut . Mick.

Come on Jack you have two MV's to build this year :lol:

A bit more of the engine went back together today.

Hi Jack, I used a drill with 80 (grit) disks then 300 wet and dry, and yes hand painted oxide, when the cab is all done I will rub the hole cab down and may spray it green or use a roller. Mick.

Been working on the wings and cab today, taking it back to the metal and getting that 10 layers of Norwegian paint off. Mick.

I have no idea what problems I will come across so I don't have a date but I have got to try and finish it for The Gunpowder Mills event in May next year. Thanks guys I will keep you posted