Bodge Deep

Many moons ago when i was a kid (should that be many, many moons ago?)

Dad and I attended an auction where we bought some stuff amongst which was a box of books... inside which, we found a peice of paper neatly folded in the fonticpiece.

It was an original requisition order from the German High command on Jersey, requisitioning a car... giving the reg no. of the car and stating that the sum of £12 would be paid for the vehicle which would be collected on a given date. It had the official eagle & swastika stamps all over it and a very interesting little document... Often wondered what the vehicle was... and was / am a little surprised that they even offered to pay for it... perhaps they didn't... and the offer was a means of stalling the owner from shoving it into the sea before the occupiers got their hands on it :dunno:

The sooner its finished... the sooner you can get a proper truck :evil:

was that the sort of thing you had in mind :whistle:

Just think of the wonderful feeling of blasting along the road in it...

the wind in your hair... eyes streaming... runny nose... bugs in the teeth...

I'm not helping am I :computerterror:

congrats Pete

Some very nice kit there.. the Chevies look very salvageable.. looks like one of them has a notek blackout light... interesting

to carry something large on deck?

Just 2 words Steve...

Flak Helmet :whistle:

Happy birthday to all the other October the 8th 'ers

pete (47)

Ron Leatherman (43)

Rick W (38)

& meeee

4 in one day is that a record :whistle:

oh and

Matt Damon

Sigourney Weaver

Paul Hogan

Jesse Jackson

Chevy Chase

A breach cover

Woohoo I got one :banana:

Sand? Gritting for spillages?

The latches and 'bolted in' perspex of the windows and general build are identical to the Norwegian doors that came with my dodge so I'd say Norwegian made Jeep Doors

Nice idea, but frankly, I'll beleive it when I see it

Even if they halved the weight and made it mechanically simpler (which wouldn't be hard)

Sounds like a flight of fancy t'me

Jeep/m201 ida thought :dunno:

My neck aches just watching that film

Compressed spines all round :nut:

That sounds like the voice of experience :rofl:

For those who didn't get it...

Today, I have been told by our local Trading Standards Officer that

there has been a high incidence of scams involving military vehicles

and expensive military equipment on EBay and other Internet auction

sites over the last three weeks and they are on the increase.

The most popular scam involves the 'seller' saying that they will be

"out of town" for some time but after the payments for the said

vehicle have been cleared, the 'seller' will then deliver the vehicle

"at no cost to the buyer".

Needless to say, there is no military vehicle. Often there is a

picture of a vehicle taken at a Show, but the vehicle shown is not the

property of the 'seller'.

Another giveaway is that the 'seller' uses a mobile phone as a contact.

This of course begs the question, where will he be during his so

called 'absence' where he will not be able to use a mobile phone?

I think the maxim here is, if sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Trading Standards have asked that we pass on a warning to all

interested parties. Please inform your members to be careful. Most

EBay transactions are genuine but care should be taken at all times as

this can be exploited easily.

By the way. This is not the result of some spoof EMail I have

received, I am sending this as a result of a face to face meeting this

afternoon. Our Trading Standards Officer is aware that I am heavily

involved in the MVT and so she asked me to pass this on. She has dealt

with three cases in our area alone during the last 31 days.

Morris 15CWT?

Jeep & one of those Italian staff cars with the huge wheels

(can't remember the name of it)?

Somewhere sunny... Italy :whistle:

Op torch?

here y'go

http://ww2dodge.com/wiki/Category:Serial_Numbers

At first glance looks to be around Oct '44

82031967 44 T223-32967

yours looks to be between these 2 here

82038904 45

But if you send off to Chrysler You'll get the build card which will give a more precise date... or at least the date it was signed off the production line... then dusty will have a birthday!

Jelly and Ice cream anyone :-D

backendish '44 early 45 at a guess can't find my link to the spreadsheet with all the chassis numbers and build dates... i'll dig it out from work in the morning if no-one posts it in the mean time

Welcome

The dodge corner of the clubhouse, are the seats closest to the bar by the fire... because A we don't have doors so we're cold and everyone knows dodges have a bit of a drink problem :shake:

Oooh she's puuurdy

Welcome Gus, welcome to the WC corner of the clubhouse (the coolest place)...but thats only cause we don't have doors :whistle:

take a seat

got any gum chum?

Furnace... smelting

Test bed for rocketry / rocket engines launch pad :dunno:

Used to have an old 340 volvo that did that...

used to put it in gear rock it back 'n' forth a bit and hey presto... ;-)