elvis3006 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 anyone else have pics of their MV,s out in a winter wonderland?:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzimm Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 A few of my work in progress.......wc-63 in the snow. I did have to engage the front axle to get it back in the shop because of the ice...........so I guess you could consider that it's first off-road experience! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MT606 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 December last yr at station 105, Chelveston, well whats left of it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny loot Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 The BOIS JACQUES woods above foy in Belgium . Made famous on band of brothers ,photo taken this year on the BMVT winter rally (see articles for report) 1942 gpw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 great pictures guys! i find as well that at times i must engage my front axle backing into the garage because of the ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 :tup:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 how many guys here feel they need to use tire chains? i am thinking of getting some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I was tempted to make some during the heavy snow here in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I keep intending to take the Jeep out in the snow, but am always a little scared of crashing into something. Quite hilly here in the Cotswolds and perhaps more scared of someone crashing in to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 i hear you,i was driving my WC51 cross country in deep snow. tried to climb a steep hill,almost made it when i started slipping back downhill sideways toward a tree! luckily i stopped short and decided to never try that again lol,at least not without i chains.:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 After 'Show no fear' come 'OH S*it!':-D Problem is tree's normally win, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 25, 2010 Author Share Posted February 25, 2010 lol yes trees usually win, this truck made it through the War and 40 or more years in the Danish Army,so i will show a little more sense from now on.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Well, some sense. After all the trucks were built to work and mine does. This picture was in Belgium at Passchendale a couple of years ago . A local guy asked me what is it? I replied proudly a Dodge Weapons carrier, he repliyed 'Yes, I can see that but what is the truck?' :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 nice photo,is all that kit yours ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 nice photo,is all that kit yours ? I wish! No, it was supporting the Passchendale memorial march with the 10th Essex living history group and No Man's land. Great fun to use the vehicle for what it was meant for, to support troops on the march. 60+ years old and she is still carrying evrything from VIP's to the beer and carting the rubbish away afterwards. On that trip I also got to photograph her under the Menin Gate , and be the first vehicle through after one of the Last Post ceremonies.:-D She was also one of the vehicles invited to parade down the Mall in London at the culmination of the 60th Anniversary of the end of World war 2. She has been on the BBC, 90th aniversary of the first day of the Somme. Convoy escort on the 60th annivesary of the Liberation of Jersey, the only time a non military team have ever fired an official 21 gun salute for Her Majesty the Queen ( I was timekeeper) She has taken me a lot of places got me into a lot of things and made me a lot of friends. She has also been on Goldbeach on the 6th June for the 60th and 65th anniversaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodger Baz Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 We enjoyed the winter rally in Belgium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted February 28, 2010 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 hi Tony sounds like you have had a lot of fun. thats the great thing about living in and around where so much history has happened. a dream of mine is to perhaps one day bring my GPW and WC51 overseas for a rally,i would love to take part at one in Normandy or Belgium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 'Overseas' runs are great fun. You make a lot of friends and have a lot of laughs, and a few tears at Remeberance parades. On one ocasion I took The Great Great nephew of somone who had fallen on the Somme to lay a wreath at his Uncle's grave, on the 90th anniversary of his death. She was also escort to the Hearse at a friend's funeral, he had requested it shortly before he died. Good or bad the Old Lady does it. Where ever you go you generate great intrest, which can be a pain if all you want is a quiet beer. But hey, we don't own them! We are keeping them in trust for the future and to honour those who have and still do serve! (Off soapbox, back to bar!:-D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 just yesterday i got an invite to bring my MV,s to some local reenactor event and a car show. one of them is the Military Muster 2010. looking forward to it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis3006 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 some new pics of my toys.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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