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  1. Capt Pat

    CANCELLED: Kelley's Island, Ohio "Navy Days" festival

    The landing boats LCM-8's were Naval Reserve stationed in Cleveland then transferred to Buffalo when their LCU went back active duty. The boats were excess after that and we ended up with them to train Naval Sea Cadets and Sea Scouts. (we being the Firelands Military Vehicle Group) But there...
  2. Capt Pat

    CANCELLED: Kelley's Island, Ohio "Navy Days" festival

    The second Kelley's Island "Navy Days" maritime festival will be held Father's Day Weekend, June 20-21 2020 on Kelley's Island. They are inviting military vehicle owners to bring their vehicles to the island for the event. Its both days, Saturday and Sunday, but the parade will most likely be...
  3. Capt Pat

    G508 GMC banjo transfer case

    Think I may have a unit here, I've got a bunch of axle shafts for all sorts of WWII trucks even some DUKW stuff, drive shafts and a transmission and transfer case., Just have to get to the bottom of the pile to find them. I'll look and let you know.
  4. Capt Pat

    10 Things I've Learned Restoring My M38A1

    Hey, you're right, there are "issues" and an addictive aspect to the "hobby", but look at it another way. It keeps some of us off the street and out of the way of those we'd probably have serious 'issues' with otherwise. It should actually be considered THERAPY......
  5. Capt Pat

    FMTV Rotating Amber Beacon

    I've got about ten of those rotating beacon, (unfortunately they all have blue lenses.) They are NOS, and some are 24 volt, others 12 volt. They're manufactured by MARS. And I've just learned not long ago that the various color lenses are still available from other manufacturers and they fit...
  6. Capt Pat

    The 755 Dollar M54A2 Five Ton

    I'm jealous..... You 'stole' that truck, damage and all. I sold mine about a year ago and for the last three months have been kicking myself for it. The parts you need are not difficult to find, there are several dealers in the various HYMV magazines that have them, as well as occasionally...
  7. Capt Pat

    Starting CCKW Rebuild......Finally

    Clinto; I've got an original GMC CCW 6x4 closed cab (with an original GMC all steel bed) that I might be interested in parting with. Like him, mine's been waiting a long time for restoration, and there are a bunch of pieces and parts that would go with it. My medical situation says I'll never...
  8. Capt Pat

    Ship's engineer M54A1 crash-course.

    Believe me, it worked for my old M-54 as well.
  9. Capt Pat

    Couldn't find the railroad forum :) M123 Moves RR Station

    No, It just existed in another galaxy a long, long time ago.
  10. Capt Pat

    Please talk him out of this

    We're not a business or supplier, but our "Group" has a running M-220 they decided to get rid of as no one has stepped forward to work on it, and we were given an M-211 that couldn't be titled so it became a supply of parts. All are available relatively inexpensively if anyone's interested...
  11. Capt Pat

    Please talk him out of this

    That's just what my wife's mother told her years back when she started to think it was a bad thing. Now SHE owns her own vehicles too.
  12. Capt Pat

    Retired Military Amphibious Vehicle and Watercraft show

    PLEASE BE ADVISED, the retired military amphibious vehicle/watercraft event in August, the 27th through the 30th, 2015 in conjunction with the In Water Boat Show at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Issues that effect to operations of...
  13. Capt Pat

    new ohio guy

    Welcome to the site, you'll enjoy it, lots of good helpful people on here and good information and ALOT of experience to draw from. You ever get into the Sandusky area and need help, let me of any FMVG (Firelands Military Vehicle Group) member know and mention Steel Soldiers, and they'll do all...
  14. Capt Pat

    M3 medium tank

    You'd be surprised what comes out of old factory storage, there were three brand new sets of sherman track pads created and fitted to existing tracks. Turns out the tooling had been sitting in a store room somewhere in the complex. The Sherman at the Allen County Historical Society Museum in...
  15. Capt Pat

    Gone off the deep end!!! But loving it

    At least you're working with the "newer" stuff. The Hobby gets REALLY dangerous when you start thiunking that all the 'vintage' OD Iron you see needs to be rescued, saved, rebuilt and preserved. Then you start looking like most of us on here, feeling "rode hard and put away wet" and start...
  16. Capt Pat

    New from Northeast Ohio!

    Welcome from N.W. Ohio, if you're ever in the area let us know. The "Group" here is the Firelands Military Vehicle Group. Hey, we'll be at the Heath, Ohio Armed Forces Day Parade, (their 2nd in forever, and this year's the city's 50th birthday) If you're around come over for the parade...
  17. Capt Pat

    Anyone ever recover a BOH FPU?

    Believe me, we've moved a load with the same issues though not the same item, and it will help you sleep better if you just have it hauled. All it takes is one screw-up to tangle with you enroute, your fault or not and you'll wish you were in the NASA manned Mars probe program. (we came close...
  18. Capt Pat

    Wrecker OOPS

    A "bit" worse than one a guy tried to sell me a few years back. Had a kink in the boom farther out, he tried to pick a school bus out of the marsh. My question to him was when did they start making all terrain busses.....
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