From: timothy.smith1@att.net
Date: Sat Apr 08 2006 - 22:25:20 PDT
Well, I'm happy to report that I think I've finally found a front bumper for my half track with some help from a member of this list. Shipping expense is gonna be a 24 carat gold plated muthah if I can get this bumper. I should have taken up stamp collecting.
Lads, the mil-veh list is what it is. I dare say most of us are old enough to remember the days when we had party lines for our telephones. Try to think of it that way. There is always a certain amount of monkey business going on but if you can't at LEAST appreciate the humor in it and if you can't appreciate the fact that there are quite a few guys out there who still know how to have fun, then you have my pity. Your life must be very dull...and for you guys who want everything just SO...well, I'm glad you're not cops because you'd be out there writing tickets for 1 mph over the limit and driving everyone plumb crazy. Hold the reins loosely!
I've seen a lot of posts lately dealing with what the mil-veh list IS and what it SHOULD be, but very little about what everyone is doing with their MV's lately. So I'm gonna jump start this puppy and see if y'all will follow suit.
It's SPRING, when many of us turn to thoughts of what we want to be doing with our MV's. I just sold my Corvette and am looking forward to tackling the half track and maybe do a bit on the Scout Car. Here is what's coming up (if I have my way).
I have Gary Hebding lining up the remaining little parts I need for overhauling the rear suspension. New tracks and rollers are the order of the day as well as servicing the back brakes and idlers while I'm in there.
Buying Gary's repro rear armor/floor kit is simply out of my reach financially. My current back end is a hybrid with some home-made parts that lack some detail. Not nasty, but not nearly right. I think I can make it better. Not to be stopped by a little thing like lack of dough, I'm planning on buying a plasma cutter and perhaps a sheet metal brake and getting on with it come hell or high water. What the hell...they can kill me, but they can't eat me. Oh, and I'm going to tackle my driver comparment floor panels. They rattle and that makes me nuts. Can't wait to shut them up!
I have two original rear side armor panels and a rear inner fender for the Scout which I plan on having reproduced locally. Since they are mirror images right and left, I'm good to go. The floor is very rudimentary and the Army has a complete Scout nearby that I can examine for accurate measurements on just about everything. It'll feel good doing SOMETHING on the Scout Car. It has been sitting for SO long!
What do you deuce-a-holics do for fun? I'd LOVE to have the deuce with the rotater boom crane / wrecker.
Last thing...some advice for everybody. Relax and enjoy the hobby, enjoy the mil-veh list, Steel Soldiers and whatever MV fun you can find...where-ever you can find it.
Regards,
TJ
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