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  1. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    NASA Missile Hauler...

    Zout, there are 3 surviving Saturn V rockets that would have been flown on Apollo 18, 19, & 20 to the moon had the moon program not been canceled. There is a restored Saturn V at the Kennedy Space Center in a special facility built to house it. There is also a Saturn 1B (used on Skylab and...
  2. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    NASA Missile Hauler...

    Clint, I don't know if NASA had more than one M26A1, but it is very interesting that one ended up with SECO. I'd love to know where it went from there. Brevard county had a pretty nice M26A1 that they kept in Titusville into the '80's, and I think Beyel Bros in Cocoa still have two. I've often...
  3. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    WWII Tank retriever scraping

    Zebede, although they look alike the Sterling and Knuckey dual chain drives are not the same. Sterling introduced theirs in 1931 while the Knuckey came out about 1940. The crane truck rears are not from a Sterling HCS330 wrecker.
  4. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    WWII Tank retriever scraping

    I'm quite certain that crane truck is on a modified M26 or M26A1 chassis, it has same Knuckey dual chain drive used on these trucks. I took an almost identical photo of the chain drive on an M26A1 many years ago. That is an interesting crane truck, I hope someone at least saved the rear drive.
  5. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    Need information about this 1941 GMC

    That's quite a rare truck you have there. The CF 351, or K18 in Signal Corps parlance, was used as a transmitting and receiving station, and was used with the trailer in the attached photo. The body was by the Hicks Body Company of Lebanon Indiana. If it still has the original engine it will be...
  6. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    NASA Missile Hauler...

    Here's a thread from about 6 months ago on the same subject. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/5-ton-up/73214-dragon-wagon-apollo-space-program.html
  7. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    saw a cckw yesterday, or whats left.

    It's hard to say that anything is "original" on a custom built puller like this truck. But that is a GM cab, the same one that both Chevrolet and GMC used from 1939 to '47 or so. So if the owner says it is a '42 CCKW it's entirely possible that's where the cab came from. But everything else...
  8. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    Dragon Wagon in Apollo space program

    This is a great photo, it actually appeared in the Hemmings blog about 4 months ago. I don't go back to the Apollo days but I have worked at KSC for several years. I'm certain that the M26A1 and the blue dolly are not connected to the Saturn V 1st stage in any way at the moment this picture was...
  9. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    Fire Truck Conversion!

    That is a very interesting G506 Chevrolet, and it appears to be in very good condition. It is not an original WW2 fire truck, but the Zeligson badge with serial number is very interesting. Zeligson was started in 1946 as a seller and rebuilder of surplus army trucks. In the '60's and '70's they...
  10. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    M27 Bomb Truck

    I haven't checked in for a while, I see I've been missing all the fun. Nice find wayofftrack, I hope it ends up in your shop. As far as the 94th Aero Squadron, there was a chain of these restaurants and there was one at the Herndon Airport in Orlando. It was originally WW1 theme but then...
  11. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    THE ORIG. TRACTOR, WRECKER

    JC, you have some great stuff there. The C-2 is a beauty.
  12. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    THE ORIG. TRACTOR, WRECKER

    Capatain, I'm not sure if I can help you but I'll send you an email anyway. I have some some higer res pics of the above, and maybe some others. I want to say the rears were similar to your WLF and KW.
  13. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    THE ORIG. TRACTOR, WRECKER

    The Sterling torpedo handler is a DDS150. The other 3 photos are the 10 ton DDS235, which were built for the Navy as aircraft salvage trucks.
  14. Jeff Lakaszcyck

    G506 identification help, G7143 ?

    Jordan, that is a great looking Chevy. It looks very well preserved for sitting outside all these years. I found some info on the model, it looks like Cap'n Crank was pretty close. According to some charts in "US Army Vehicles of World War Two" by Bonniface and Jeudy, the G7143 is a searchlight...
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