From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 20:33:00 PST
Here is a couple of more pictures of the Scout car and some of the other MVs
at Ft. Jackson. These are the same pictures that I posted last year so no
new ones. Wayne
http://ImageEvent.com/wharris19/ftjacksonsc
>From: "GOTaM35" <GOTaM35@joetrapp.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] A few questions about the M3A1 Scout car }:-)
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:00:56 -0500
>
>First off let me thank all the good folks that have sent me pictures and
>info on the Scout car. I can tell WW2 vehicles are more admired than the
>ugly old M35 by the quantity and quality of the responses. So many people
>have emailed me and volunteered their resources, both time and material, to
>help with my project that I figured it would be best to ask everyone a few
>questions.
>
>1. I am trying to determine the year of my car and was wondering if
>anyone
>would be kind enough to send me a little info on their serial numbers. I
>wouldn't want anyone to send the actual number, but if anyone wants to send
>me maybe the year of their car, the number of digits in the serial number
>and maybe the first number and the last couple that might help. Again, I
>wouldn't want anyone to send what would be considered to be sensitive info.
>I wouldn't want someone to have the serial number to my car. What I
>believe
>to be the serial number is a 6 digit number that begins with a "2" and the
>5
>remaining numbers exceed the number of cars reported to have been produced.
>If 20,00 were produced and my serial number was 012586 I would at least
>entertain the thought it was the 12,586th vehicle produced. Since the
>number is 2xxxxx, that obviously does not mean it was the 2xx,xxxth vehicle
>of 20,000 produced. Wow, I've confused myself.
>
>2. The rear axle leaf springs are not attached at the rear of the axle
>(missing shackles). I noticed the Scout car located at ft. Jackson has the
>spring above the axle hanger (attached rigidly to the front hanger and
>shacked at the rear) but the other frames I photoed at Gary's all had the
>spring under the hanger. I don't know the year of the Ft. Jackson car, but
>I hope to contact the museum and find out. Did some hang above and others
>below. This will of course affect the height of the rear of the vehicle
>when I start to fab up pieces for it. I have concluded I need to put a
>skeleton floor and side Armour on it so everyone will quite saying "you
>drove to Chicago and paid money for that?". It does look a little naked at
>the present.
>
>Speaking of which I did post a picture of my car (with nephew attached) and
>the one at the Fort on my web site. Its funny, the car at the fort looks
>good from a distance, but is missing a lot of stuff and the interior is
>pretty trashed. Several people have send me pictures of restored cars and
>this had helped a lot in determining what is missing and what it is
>supposed
>to look like. Well here's the link:
>
>http://www.joetrapp.com/pages/679984/index.htm
>
>Thanks again for all the great info.
>Joe Trapp
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