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The Clare show is Aug 25-27 held in Clare Mi. at General Jims / Jay's Sporting Goods. The Hot Air Jubilee is at Jackson County Airport in Jackson, south of Lansing. Great Lakes MVPA site is http://greatlakesmvpa.org/
It's a fully auto airsoft rifle. It is a combo of pieces from different rifles. I started with a cheap ($12) single shot springer airsoft M16a1. I had that one in my truck for about a year and it can be seen in this pic from last year.
It had no real moving parts and you pulled back the...
I was looking today and realized I didn't have any decent recent pics of the M715 since I had spent all my time finishing up the deuce. So I ran out and took a few and posted them up to my site. Here are a few
The rest are here http://www.davidallenracing.com/M715.htm
It was just a lot of...
Sorry Gimp, I'm headed that way and on to Cincy for the weekend, but will be in the wifes new Expedition with both of the twins. Between all the stuff packed for the wife and kids, I'm not sure there will even be room for me to take a bag along of my own stuff. :roll: I pass right by...
I'll be there on Friday. I was going to go for the whole weekend and drive down the Deuce with the M715 on a trailer and display them, but the wife shot holes in that plan. She decided to turn it into a weekend of visiting friends and family in the area. My 3 days of show time was narrowed to...
The registration # would indicate that the truck is a 1969. Starting in 1968 the Army added the year of delivery to the end of the registration #'s to help them better keep track of the year they took delivery on it. It is possible though that the registration # came from a different truck...
Lee, we sell methanol here at my race shop. We go through about 2000 gallons a month in the summer so you know it is always fresh. We sell by the gallon or the drum. We're about an hour southwest of you at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Mears. Shop # is 231-873-4047, David Allen Racing. 8)
Yep it's all pretty flat and easy to add in replacement pieces. I cut out all the bad areas and sand blasted around it and inside the rocker to make sure I had all good metal to work with. I then sprayed rubberized undercoating inside the rockers to prevent further rusting. Ground down the...
6" circle with 4" number centered according to my records. Yellow with black number for all years leading up the use of the subdued markings in the 1970's. Once subdued, it was flat black five line broken circle with a flat black number centered in it.
Here is mine on my restored 67' M35
Actually they are not. When I first finished my M715 I found a troop strap for a deuce and used it. It was too long and I had to take it apart at one end and double it over at the buckle to get it short enough to use. Once I bought my deuce I transfered it back to full lenght for a deuce and...
Try ABLinn, he posts the ones for M715s and M37s on ebay all the time for $30-$35. They are shorter than the ones for a deuce and I imagine would fit a M880 just right.
Hood number
NK06R8 is the vehicles registration # and would be the numbers that were placed on the the sides of the hood. He is the good news. :D Your truck is newwer than a 1970 because the style of the registration # dictates so. Also once the registration # is assigned to a truck it...
Yep that was the last unit it served with. I have a feeling that mines been everywhere. Lot's of field applied paint jobs over it's life. It was rebuilt in 89' at Kaiserslautern Depot in Germany, and had a layer of desert tan paint sugjesting that it was a desert storm truck before rotating...
Here was my bumper as i sanded it down.
I tried to sand down even further to try nd find what other units the truck had served with, but couldn't get any numbers to show through the seven layers of paint on there.
As for the hood numbers, what year is your truck? In the early 70's with the...