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Here's the Ga Mafia on parade!

I highly recommend you fellas rename it the Georgia Mafia. If you keep running around calling yourselves the Ga Mafia, I think you might have a nasty visit from some actual Mafia members who would like to have a word with you and your Ga friends.

Ditto. Most times I tell these people where to go, for...um....help. A few times I've sent them there.

Maybe for one or two of them, you might be right. That one on the left looks somewhat like a WWII van trailer, but smaller. Last one, the "tank trailer" is definitely military, probably started life as a M105 cargo or M149 tank trailer, and had the body replaced with that weird tank thing...

I've never seen military trailers like those. They look like small-contract, special-purpose items. Probably 1940s-1950s from their "look". Did you happen to get close and see if they had any data plates?

I had a M134 minigun parts kit several years back, all the parts except the receiver housing. Cost a pretty penny to assemble the package, and sold for same. I wish you well in your dummy gun build, I've seen a few half-assed replicas and they just didn't look right. It's a complex design to...

Looks pretty cunning to me!

Wow! That thing is a work of art! I'd be afraid to use it and get it all dirty and oily...

Great! Now all your need are two NDT 9.00x16 tires and the slave cable box to mount to the brackets that are already there....

ALSO - there are some armored vehicles that have came off of military ranges, used as targets. These were either sold surplus with a demil requirement, OR they were illegally removed from the range. And if you buy one that has been restored, but had this demil requirement or was removed from a...

Sometimes armor comes from private companies that got ahold of the vehicles for contracting/development purposes, and SOMETIMES they can sell it legally afterwards. Sometimes they come from police departments that are done using them for SWAT duty, but I'd expect this more for older vehicles...

Good save on the M100. Try power washing it with a power sprayer, that yellow latex paint might just peel off under the pressure. Looks like all you need is a replacement lunette and you're all set!

Gary's Halftrack parts used to have a pile of new and good take-off tracks. Are they all gone? http://www.halftracks.com/index.cfm

There's a meme in Hot Rod Magazine I've always been fond of - "dare to be different". Lemme tell ya, you can't be more different than wanting to restore a fire/rescue truck! Subscribed, I'm gonna like following this resto...

Was sent this the other day by another member. Great website with lots of .pdf manuals on military radios, teletypes, antennas, test equipment, mics, speakers, hand/head sets, power supplies, etc. Most of them are older rigs from the 1940s through 1980s, a few newer. But most importantly, a...

Well, after over a month, the weekend pictures are finally up on the Torsk website for all to see. Lots of work got done, and also 5 USS Torsk veterans showed up to help out, which is always great to see. The pics are available to see here...

I think to get "original" OD coyote will have to find a standard hard top, that plywood job looks odd, it has to go. I'm surprised it even survived in the Pacific NW long without rotting.

That's what I get for losing my copy of David Doyle's Standard Catalog of US Military Vehicles. I knew one of them had singles and one had duals, I guess I got them switched. Were the singles 11.00x20s? Or just standard 9.00x20s?

Those M47s are a rare bird these days, only a few still exist. Plan to restore back to completely original? That would mean dual NDTs in the rear, you need the side boards in the dump bed, too. Also, did the dumps come with a hard top standard? Or was it soft top only back in the 1950s?

Looks awesome! I like it, I would have preferred a little more "patina" to give it that rat rod look, but otherwise very cool. Looks better than this deuce hot rod...