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May 28th to 30th Everyone is invited to our annual Memorial Day rally at the only WWI memorial in the US. We start setting up Saturday at noon and go through Monday. Sunday we have front row seats for the fire works as the Kansas City Symphony plays down the hill from us. Camping on site...

I recently bid an won a lot described as, "329 Approx pieces truck accesories to include: 119 aprox. scissor jacks and 100 approx jack handles." under item manifest it listed 100 handles and 219 jacks all with the same NSN. Below are the pictures of the lot. When I went to retrieve the lot it...

marine M1030B1 recovery and rebuild When I found out that another member suboms had a couple of former Marine KLR650's for sale that was within a days drive from here in southern MO. I checked the bank, borrowed a trailer and took off. The good thing was the snow had melted off the roads but...

One of my fellow duce owners was going with me on a MV pick-up yesterday and was telling me how he was ticketed with a $140 fine for having a duce parked at his house. At first I thought he was blowing smoke but he wasn't. Overland Park Kansas has changed their city ordnance for vehicle parking...

My 38X30 wood frame shop is in need of a demo and rebuild as a steel sheeted pole barn. So to have a place to store tools and a few MV's for the winter I went after a maintenance frame tent that was in 2 separate GL auctions weeks apart at Ft Riley. 1st auction was supposed to be 3 of the new...

UPDATE it served me well for 7 years but has now moved to VT and a new owner, it will be used for Mil Sim. Added info on last page. My former Navy TFK-250 (tactical field kitchen) finally came home yesterday. It has been stashed at a friends house in Arkansas since I got it off GSA. I have...

I was at "Power of the Past" in Ottawa Kansas today, it is a vintage tractor/ farm implement show that is held this time every year. Hooked up to a lawn tractor I found this little tracked trailer. The owner would not sell it for any amount. I have run across several Naval ordnance items over...

Euc's cleared so needed to go fetch some trailers, I had put my bids in the week of the Iola meet. Got home Sunday night a found I had won three. Big truck and goose neck were not available this trip, so a buddy and I drove out at O dark thirty to be there when they when GL opened. Robert and...

Found this DOD film that shows all the VRC12 parts, pieces and operating info. Controls and accessories start around 22 mins. RADIO SET AN/VRC-12 : Department of Defense : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

I have got a German Army MKT, TFK250 (Tactical Field Kitchen) in north Little Rock, Arkansas that needs to be hauled or trailer-ed to Olathe, Kansas. Anybody out there that can do it in the next 10 days or so? PM me if you can, or if you know anything about these TFK's. Thanks in advance, Jim

After looking for the last 2 years for a proper Duce boarding ladder, I bought one of jwright's van ladders. He had them new in the crate at the MVPA convention for $80, I had seen them before on 6ton vans at Ft Riley at the reset area. I used a 1 1/2 hole saw to modify the tail gate, 1 1/4 or 1...

Last year we had 40+ MV's hope to have 50+ this year Commemorative Air Force- Heart of America Wing Join the Heart of America Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in "Honoring Our Heroes" Veterans and active duty military personnel will be guests of honor at the CAF annual...

THE 35TH ANNUAL MVPA CONVENTION will be held at the Topeka, KS Expocentre, display and vendor opens at 0700 on the 7th. I live a little over an hour away and will try and have 3 trucks there. M885, M818, M35A2 each pulling a trailer. Plus I am cleaning out the barn of extra stuff to sell and...

I was going to tow a M119A1 6 ton Van trailer with my M818 but neither one of the glad hands on the front of the trailer are marked or painted. Standing on the 5th wheel of the 818 looking at the nose of the trailer which is the service and which is the emergency?? Thanks in advance for the help.

Loaded up and left this morning to get my long suffering M1009 from Ft Riley. It had started on it's own every time I have been out there over the last few months while waiting for the EUC to clear. Well today it was dead. Ryan of GL who took us out went off to bum some jumper cables from the...

This coming Saturday 5 June 2010 at the Museum of the Kansas National Guard is the 10th annual Heartland military days. The "rolling thunder" chapter Topeka MVPA Chapter helps host this event. It is also just a few blocks from the Combat Air Museum Home Page Last year there over 50 MV's...

Two days left before set-up starts Saturday at noon at the entrance of the Liberty Memorial. If you are not in the local club and want to be included in the Sunday afternoon KC strip steak dinner pot luck at 14:30 please PM asap me with with the # of adults and kids who will be eating. Also...

MAY 29-31 MOKAN Liberty Memorial rally Every one is invited to our annual Memorial Day rally at the only WWI memorial in the US. We start setting up Saturday at noon and go through Monday. Sunday we have front row seats for the fire works as the Kansas City Symphony plays down the hill from...

I picked up my new M35a2 yesterday and besides having 2 wooden wheel chocks in the BII box it had 2 rubber chocks mounted on each of the rear mud flaps. Look to be real easy fab. Also if anyone in the KC area wants to extend their cargo bows you can have the rear wall and door I just removed it...

I won a Duce last Thursday, emailed the EUC in Friday, today, Tuesday,I got an email stating, " Confirmaton of Receipt of Sale 5084 EUC", This message is to advise you that we have received your End-Use Certificate (EUC) and other information for sale # 5084. WTF, I have been buying from GL...