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    One for M8 Greyhound...

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Hi Jack thanks for the compliments......in answer to your questions

     

    1/ Approx £35000-£45000 depending on condition/ completeness

     

    2/ It was awesome a real life changing experience...almost humbling to ride in tanks in the "tank tracks of ghosts"....

     

    Can post a couple of links to further pictures if you want

     

    regards

     

    Lloyd

    Willys Jeep Body Number Location??

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    As Cripp correctly says its stamped into the driver side toeboard gussett..the roughly triangular shaped plate that bolts the tub to the chassis under the front footstep.

     

    It can be seen if you rasie the hood and look down between the oil can and the electrical 6 post junction block

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Lloyd

    Jeep Markings

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi Degsy and Mick...i personally think it would have been something like

     

    1A-HQ-X..........P-1.......denoting Police.....

     

    Hang on i will definatley find out looking at some pictures of MP vehicles...

     

    I think the only reference to MP would have been in the lettering on the windshield etc

     

    Regards

     

    Lloyd

    Jeep buyers guide ??

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    What do you need to know buddy i will try to help...as i was the unwilling victim of buying a "wrongun" and then having to spend thousands putting it right.

     

    The advert read the most original 1942 Willys jeep on the road........YEAH.... :cry: :cry:

     

    Thousands spent on restoration.....YEAH..by ME....... :evil:

     

    But now its all done from ground up.....i am happy.....just returned from a faultless 2006 Back to The Bocage trip with the 2nd Armored....in the pictures its the Jeep called CONNIE...the 48th Medical marked MB.

     

    Be glad to help someone not make the same mistake i did.

     

    Regards

     

    Lloyd

    Pat Ware Interview...

    in Tell us...!

    Posted

    Right chaps..been following this thread with some interest...being a militaria collector/ living historian and re enactor for the last 25 years and a vehicle owner for the last 3 what do you guys want to hear ?

     

    my first point will be this...IF re enacting/ living history is done well and authentic then its a good way to stop history being distorted.

     

    If its done BADLY..its a good way to wind up the public and give all Re enactors a bad name

     

    and still there are vehicle owners that stand in their "ivory towers" and look down thier nose with distaste at Living historians and re enactors

     

    you vehicle owners who have the vehicles of war still have the same standards to keep up as people who wear and display the clothes of war and in my opinion a badly turned out vehicle and badly dressed owner has the same bad taste as badly turned out and bad acted re enactors.

     

    so i personally think there is NO difference.

     

    INCOMING

     

    Regards

     

    LLoyd

    White Halftrack Track Changing

    in I may be stupid, but......

    Posted

    Hi Mick you will need the special tools to jack up the track rollers mate...Andy King from Class 2 supplies has a set if you are struggling.

     

    Yes it would pay to either reseal and re grease all bogie wheels mate.....while the tracks are off....bearings should be OK unless the tracks have been run too tight

     

    and trouble is mate most of the half track experts will be in France...:-( wot a bummer on the 2ADs back to the bocage trip.....

     

    Mick i need to talk to you re the last small wall tent.....its SOLD

     

    Call me my ol mate

     

    Regards

     

    Lloyd

    Armed Dodges

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.................................................... :cry:

     

    actually there are 2 or 3 pics of Dodges armed with 30 and or 50 cal mounts the most famous one being of an M36 ring mount mounted on one over the passenger seat by a 3rd armored Field artillery regiment Dodge...WC

     

    also dont beleive all you read regarding the WC55 a very "few" were used post DDay in the ETO and Italy and even more unmodified ones were used by the USMC in the pacific against the lightly armed Japenese tanks as late as 1944.

     

    Yes thanks Bodge....my "55" was the 98th one off the production line and still retained most of its early features......:-(

     

    but she is still in this country and still going STRONG.....:-)

     

    Regards

     

    Me

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