Re: [MV] LVT's (was.. Moving swiftly back to military vehicles)

From: Steve Schulte (steve@urdj.org)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 15:02:06 PDT


Jon:

The big thing is to turn the engine over to get the oil that settles out of
the bottom cylinders before trying to start. and with the crank it is a baer
for me in the engine compartment.

You know my size.

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Shoop" <shoop19@brick.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] LVT's (was.. Moving swiftly back to military vehicles)

> One runner here in St louis area......in a museum locally now. Used to
tend
> a local boat harbor on a tributary of the Mississppi!
>
> One the 14th armored freshened up for the D-Day Museum.
>
> One thing they all have in common......too hard to haul, too wide, very
> heavy, tears the hell out of the landscape, but a way too cool factor for
> sure!
>
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Gilmore" <jgilmore@ptd.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:51 AM
> Subject: [MV] LVT's (was.. Moving swiftly back to military vehicles)
>
>
> > Nige wrote:
> > >A pretty rare vehicle has just been advertised on www.milweb.net in
the
> > >Armour and tracked section - an LTV4 - particularly rare in Europe,
> made
> > >me
> > >think -I am curious to know how many exist in private hands these
days -
> > >maybe 6 or so ?
> >
> > Well..........maybe not so rare.........I know of quite a few of these
> in private hands.......
> >
> > Bruce M in Michigan
> > another guy in MI (his runs)
> > Tom P in Ohio (his runs AND swims)
> > V V M in Va.
> > two in a field in NY
> > Brent M in TX
> > Sam W in TN
> > another guy in Ohio
> > Henry V in Ohio
> > Phil D in ILL (has 2)
> > Russ M in CO ( has 3 LVT 3's)
> >
> > ..........given time I will remember more.......probably 10 or so
> more............
> >
> > Jim Gilmore
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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