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My pride and joy... Please see attached pic - it's coming up nicely...

I'm really enjoying this post, as you can imagine sourcing parts over here in Australia is next to impossible but my restoration of an ex British Rapier resupply M548 is progressing steadily. I can tell you that once you have it up an running all of the hard work and labour will have been worth...

Might just do it Hi Greg, Thanks for the invitation. Yes I will have some stories from my time in the Army, the Police Force and this hobby - 33 years worth. I have to say I'm tempted. I'm already looking into sourcing second hand parts from other scrap yards for the M548 over there. A week...

Great thread What a terrific thread ! Instead of spending the morning working on the M548 I spent it here on SS and mainly reading this thread and the accompanying pics. I don't have an M Series truck but I still feel like flying over to the states, meeting Glen and spending a week just...

Whoa ! That's quite a welcoming committee ! Thanks to you all. So many questions I may have to PM them one at a time. Just to put things in perspective, I currently only have the Land Rovers, Caterpillar D4, the Ferret Scout cars AND the M548 carrier these days. Cheers Phill

Hello everyone, this looks like such a good site I thought I would join right away. I'm a retired Australian Federal Policeman and a former soldier in the Australian Regular Army. Since 1979 I've been collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage and ex Military vehicles and equipment of US...