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Michigan ANG - Alpena CRTC Air Show 8-21 MV's Requested
I received a call today from the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center .
They very much would like MV's on display, any era. for their Air Show.
They requested the vehicles be on site by 8am Saturday August 21st.
Wings Over Alpena 2010...
August 13, 14, 15, 2010 :
14th Annual Great Lakes MVPA MV Show/Swap Meet
outside of General Jim's Surplus - Clare, MI
General Jim's is located next to Jay's Sporting Goods in Clare, Michigan
1 mile north of the north Clare Old 27 Exit. Large parking area.
PUBLIC WELCOME! NO ADMISSION CHARGE...
Michigan July 17 & 18
Great Lakes MVPA and Michigan Museum of Military Transport
Fall Trail Ride Camp Site Clean-up Work Day
Sunday July 18th
Meet at the truck stop on 4 Mile Rd exit of I-75 just south of Grayling at 10AM.
If you are late arriving,
The site is about 1/2 way between I-75 and...
For those of you that have had or have both the M35A2 & M36A2.
Is your M36A2 noticeably slower?
I ask because mine is so much different from it's little brother.
Sure the M36 is 2,200lbs heavier to start with but I'm wondering if my 1972 motor is geetting tired.
M36A2 w/ 11/72 1-C motor, D...
I looked at a M35A3 today, specifically the wheels & data plate.
the only weight listings on the data plate was 13,xxx empty and 18,xxx loaded.
I had looked for the weight rating of 4000lb on the wheels, to confirm what gimpyrob had posted.
I was curious about the wheels, because my M36A2...
Well sorta anyway,
Found an ad for 42 willys jeep parts.
looks like GPW24333 with a GPW34176 engine (block) It has a T90A tranny on it, & the transfer case needs some investigating, 2 combat wheels and maybe 1 early wheel. Have to get it out of the M101A2 to further check the one wheel out...
I might be a truck addict :doh:
4 Deuces plus a few other MV's, little time, little money.
A new Steel Soldiers member from Michigan was looking for a truck,
so we worked out a trade, I spent the day getting the truck ready for him to pick it up tomorow (Sunday).
Dangit! It's hard to let it...
The TM's show a skid plate for the M880 series trucks.
I've had a few (ok, several) of these trucks over the last 6 years or so.
Never had or seen one with a skid plate / or signs of having had one. *
I've had an ad in the classifieds for a long time "Skid Plate wanted"
No real luck here, I did...
I've been looking for a plow truck for some time {cheap}
Didn't want to put a plow on my M880
Ended up with this at auction
hoping to go get it Saturday. about 450 miles.
Check out the right rear wheel in the pic.
Now I'm pretty familiar with the M880 series of trucks, and know it is not original issue.
This wheel is very interesting to me. (read as I want a set of them!!)
Pretty sure it is not a reversed Humvee wheel.
What about the M101A3? They were set up...
Recently whille being home on leave after returning from Iraq a soldier from down the road here was telling me that at Ft Riley, they had a "Dodge just like yours" that they used to get the mail with. I didn't question or argue, I just figured it was a newer Dodge pickup that wasn't an M series...
These trucks make me :drool:
Problem is, someone will have deeper pockets than I.
Dear Santa,
I just want a toy truck, will need to buy it b-4 Christmas............
Camp Grayling Annual Fall Color Tour 9/25-9/27 Great Lakes MVPA / MMMT 17th Annual Camp Grayling Fall Color Tour
September 25 - 26 - 27, 2009
All Great Lakes MVPA members should have received the advance registration form in the newsletter.
This event is restricted to...
Don't know whether it was GL's server, my centurytel account, McAfee Firewall, or my old PC, but this last EUC submittal via email didn't go well.
I sent it 9 flippin times before it was received.
Heidi on live chat was helpful, courteous and understanding.
Thanks Heidi![thumbzup][thumbzup]
VJ Day celebration Hillman, Mi. Saturday 8-8-09
Some members of the Michigan Museum of Military Transport Foundation Inc.
Will be driving their HMV's to Hillman, MI. this Saturday, where the trucks will be on display right in town.
We will be hosted by the Brush Creek Mill Museum in Hillman...
The Michigan Museum of Military Transport Foundation Inc. will have a display set up in Downtown Grayling during the Ausable River Festival this Saturday
This is a great event for the whole family as there is an arts & crafts show, and other historic attractions happening at the same time...
Had the M36A2 out this afternoon, fortunately I was in a parking lot slowing to park it, hit the brake pedal and had a mili-second of stopping power & bam! pedal to the floor.:shock:
The parking brake wasn't real happy about being deployed while moving either.
It did the job this time, but I...
This is the front wall of a raised / hardened cargo cover.
the truck in the background 2nd pic.
Anyway I think my truck has been busy since it's 1/90 rebuild.