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Sarge is still working on his M1031 recovery tale, to which he adds about three words a day, so he asked me to post this one. On January 1st Sarge made a New Years resolution to not buy any vehicles in 2009. Between then and now he has only bought five, so he is really doing quite...

Sarge and I went on a mission this morning to recover his “new” M49C tanker. He bought it sight unseen for a couple of hundred dollars. It is a 1962 gasser, runs, but has iffy brakes. It had been used as a fire tanker, but the city had retired it and was going to sell it for parts. They had...

Well, I finally got my dream vehicle, what I have lusted for since I first saw them in service back in the early '80s. Today I bought this. It has had all the really serious work done already (stripped to hull and components, sandblasted, primed and painted inside, primed outside). Lots of...

Can anyone identify this vehicle? It belongs to the Oakland County (Michigan) Sheriffs Office. (No, I don't want to debate why they have it, I just want to know what it is!). Cheers

A while back I saw some military trailers that were very similar to civilian equipment trailers like the red one below. I don't remember the M number designation for those, does anyone know? How about for the USMC trailer below? May be a Marine specific unit (photo courtesy of Halftrack)...

Can anyone tell me how many amps a complete intercom setup (no radio) with 4 stations would draw? I am trying to figure out what size power converter I need to run this in a 12v vehicle. Thanks and cheers.

Does anyone know how to service the bearings in an M75 APC cupola? Best I can tell that is what is on my armoured car, and it sounds like there is a half pound of sand in there with them. Closest info I can find is in the M113 tech manuals, but it isn't the same cupola, just similar. I...