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    help with rebuilding a snatch landrover

    in MV Chatter

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    I had a close look at a Snatch Land Rover at Withams the other week for a 'buying used' feature for LRO magazine. It's in the January issue of LRO (currently on sale). The batch Withams has ranges from scrappers to mint ones so that company will have spares as not all the Snatch Land Rovers it has will be restored/rebuilt.

     

    To answer two points from posts above; the desert camouflage is a jacket that fits over the green NI paint and freephone number. The front axle is a heavy duty unit that matches the rear Salisbury diff.

     

    JC

    In gods name, what were they thinking?

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Here's a quote from something Jack posted on Pathfinder; 'There were elements of our Dutch trip that my Dad doesn’t appreciate or even understand. He just laughed when a teenager openly asked him “how many Germans did you kill?” It’s as if war’s just become a computer game, in which the participants and the casualties no longer seem real.

     

    Meanwhile convoys of military vehicles paraded through the streets, some carrying medal-laden veterans but many of them filled with smiling young people in shabby brown uniforms. As we sat outside a café Dad politely asked a group of them which regiment they were serving with. “It’s just a hobby,” one replied. In fact, they were office workers who put on military fancy dress at the weekends. “So they’re playing at soldiers?” My father was completely baffled by all this. “We live in a completely crazy world, chap.”

     

    Read the rest at http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/taking-dad-to-visit-his-wwll-ghosts-in-arnhem/

     

    It’s as if war’s just become a computer game, in which the participants and the casualties no longer seem real. Hmmm...

    Blackpool seafront MV's

    in MV Chatter

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    I haven't found the slides of the Morrises on the front at Blackpool yet but have found pictures of one of the Southport DUKWs that have also been mentioned in this thread. It's a B&W print that I've scanned but I recall the DUKWs were red with a yellow stripe. This picture was taken in 1990 or 1991.

    DUKW-crop-lr.jpg

    Cheap Jeep

    in MV Chatter

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    Is it dear at £1500 plus? Someone wanted it that much but it made more than I expected and I didn't bid;

     

    Bear this on mind though; there's a guy on eBay selling 'barn find' chassis and axles etc. I asked what he wanted for a pair of axles and a chassis - a total £900 for some identifiable GPW parts but still a long way from a whole Jeep.

     

    There was also a rolling chassis, swb Mahindra - tub, grille, bonnet, chassis, pair of axles, wheels, usable wings, V5C and lots of attached small bits for £150. So I bought it. It's a long way from a WWii Jeep.

     

    I have some MB bits on the shelf to use, some M201 wheels and with this 'roller' I think I'll build another version of the one on eBay with a MD Juan tub and a Hotchkiss engine; it might not be a WWii Jeep (but neither is a Hotchkiss) but it will be a Jeep. And I can imagine having just as much fun in it as I did in my Hotchkiss. That, to me, is the most important; roof down motoring on back roads on sunny days rather than worrying about the right wheel nuts... It is, of course, each to his/her own.

     

    Jeepin' and Jolly!

    Cheap Jeep

    in MV Chatter

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    Mark - there's some stuff about those RAAF Jeeps and a test evaluation report on the CJ3B webpage - don't know if you've seen it - http://www.film.queensu.ca/cJ3B/

     

    I agree about the Hotchkiss/Mahindra thing - I said that to a bloke in Normandy, he was apoplectic and, I think, would have punched me if he'd dared! What you say is true though; the licence-building agreements mean that flat fender Jeeps were built in France, India, Japan, Colombia, Spain and CKD assembled in lots of others... http://www.film.queensu.ca/cJ3B/World.html

    Cheap Jeep

    in MV Chatter

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    Rattlesnake Bob - Yes!

     

    Not long after I got the 'Mad Hilda' Mahindra I drove it down from Yorkshire to Bovvy for the weekend - did the RTV trial in it on Sat, used it to follow the Heavy Vehicle Trial around on Sunday (while sharing a drive of Chris Acock's Scammell Explorer in the trial) and drove it home to Yorkshire on Monday. It did really well except for wearing out a set of brake shoes in that gritty mud at Bovvy.

     

    Cheers, JC

    Cheap Jeep

    in MV Chatter

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    Well said, Rattlesnake Bob. Dana 44s etc under a Mahindra... I didn't expect such name calling snobbery about Mahindras here. Are people as snotty about the Neval/Cossack/Ural outfits painted field grey?

     

    I've got a NATO green Mahindra CJ340 (swb) diesel, a sand Mahindra CJ540 (lwb) diesel, a CJ-2A project, a load of CJ-3B bits and sold a petrol Hotchkiss M201 early this year. I had the M201 for a long time and have had the CJ340 longer (since 1989) and have had just as much fun in the Mahindra as the Hotchkiss - four of us took both to Normandy in 2004. Been to Bastogne, Geneva, Sedan... in the Mahindra.

     

    I might have a punt at the eBay one I think although I would have preferred a petrol engine...

     

     

    Here's some Jolly Jeepin' pics;

     

     

    http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.108159439210894.14414.100000505149086&type=1 - Mahindra SWB

     

     

    http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.162008927159278.36551.100000505149086&type=1 - Hotchkiss

    M201

     

    http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.114648058562032.15945.100000505149086&type=1 - Jeeps incl LWB Mahindra

    Blackpool seafront MV's

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    I'll do my best Ivor. Finding them is the first hurdle and then scanning them will be the second. I asked for some advice about scanners for 35mm slides on the LRSOC forum but haven't bought one yet - I need to though to scan some LR pics for Legend. JC

    German SS and Japanese Army re-enactors and equipment

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    I stopped going to Beltring a few years back because I got sick of the SS uniforms... Got into a row with two Nazi 're-enactors' (and on here) at Yanks in Saddleworth so haven't been to that since neither... Wrote letters to Windscreen... Just don't understand why any free-born Brit would wear any uniform with a Swastika on... I can't see where the re-enactment is in going to a beer tent at a show in an SS uniform... Had the odd row about it on here years ago too... The fact that Nazi uniforms are banned in France surely says something... the storm that followed a royal and an FIA guy wearing German uniforms for 'fancy dress' must say something too...

    Blackpool seafront MV's

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    I remember from my schooldays that some of the vehicles on Blackpool seafront were Morris Commercials of some sort. I remember the distinctive sloping bonnets and the non-standard wooden bodies referred to in another post here. I have some slides from those days but can't put my hands at them at the moment - they're in storage somewhere but they were only snaps with an Instamatic.

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