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July 1st, 2010. Gents: Its gonna be balls to the wall for taking the old Unimog to Springfield, IL on July 3,4,5, and possibly 6th, from Reno,Texas. Uncle Sam has been kind enough to give me a posting as a GS0025-09/7 Park Ranger (I) with the National Park Service at Abraham Lincoln Home NHS...

June 29th, 2010. Gents: You've heard the saying: "If it ain't busted, don't fix it?":cookoo: The Murphy's Lawyer contingent showed up here Saturday after Mr. Weemes checked over and changed fluids on my 1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2.... Seems I had to have the cooling system...

June 13th, 2010. You gotta love those Texas courthouse ladies... THEY will make your day. The other day I went down to the CH here in Lamar Co, to see what the ladies wanted to get a set of plates and a title for the M105A2 I bought from GL up in Norman, OK in May of 2008. Bill of sale, police...

June 1st, 2010. Gents: Here's the dope...... I've been unemployed for 6 plus months, been without unemployment for 1 month (waiting on the Federal emergency Unemployment to kick in, and I'll likely be going back to work for the Feds in about a month..... So, as...

May 19th, 2010. My Oct. 1976 TM-9-2320-209-10/1 on page 2-124 shows the staves and corners stowed in front of the headache board on the cargo deuce in an upright position, with the corners facing (forward? or backward?) and the bows stored under the bed and tied off to something on...

May 19th, 2010. Well, Gents: It looks like my M35A2+M105A2 and Unimog S404.114 (Swiss) are all gonna get to earn their keep shortly on two road trips from Paris, Texas to Springfield, Illinois in the next month or so. I figure the M35A2 and M105A2 should be good for 7-1/4 tons on the road...

April 14th, 2010. The Unimog SEE on EBAY sold this afternoon for $18,999.00! Looks like I'm gonna have to either have a rich relative croak and leave me their estate, or hit the lottery, nothing else is gonna get that kinda cash quick. I think a serviceable SEE would be fairly...

April 9th, 2010. I may get into deep do-do with this one, but as I don't own the critter nor have any interest in the critter.... here goes! On EBAY under military vehicles you will find one really aesthectically challenged Swedish Army 1950's Volvo Radio Car. From the front end it looks like...

March 30th, 2010. One of our members on here was kind enough to send me a NOS set of data plates (blank) for a 1968 Johnson Corporation M105A2 I have been cleaning up. Mine had the original Data plate and procurement plate, much faded, but it was missing the lift data plate. The question is...

March 24th, 2010. Gents: Not saying it's gonna happen, but there is a very small chance that I may soon pick up a job in Needles, CA in the near future. Knowing all the inanities that California imposes on the deuce owners there.... I am giving some thought to residing, should I get the job...

January 09th, 2010.:?: Gents: Well, besides the usual doesn't want to get up when its cold issues that "Saddam's Nightmare" starter solenoid and starter relay has, when it does start in the peculiarly unusual cold we're having, the air brake tank drains proceeds to freeze up...

December 27th, 2009. Gentlemen: I am looking for the 6 springs and four bolts(?) used to hold the two bottom flaps or ears and the two side flaps (on the front of the hood) to the deuce. I have a serviceable winter front, but I have been unable to locate the springs...

December 18th, 2009. :-D GENTS: It's a year later, I'm a year older and probably not much wiser, and could any of our members who have convoy lights miounted on GI masts behind the cab get me the outside and inside OD of the bottom half of the mast + it's height, and the top part of the...

November 29th, 2009. Gentlemen and Ladies: I have to replace my old speedo cable on my M35A2 due to its breaking, and I have a new NOS speedo cable, ready to go, with no apparent luble. The cable is metal with a rubber jacket, immaculate condition, but my 20 manual...

November 24th, 2009. Gentlemen: I know that the M35A2 is supposed to have a breaker panel behind the dashboard on the firewall. "Saddam's Nightmare" is a 1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 standard cargo deuce, and either the panel is much different or smaller then a standard pickup panel, but I...

October 13th, 2009. More sauce on the goose, please!:-D I have heard a lot of grousing in here that the Air-O-Matic steering units aren't power steering and its better to cobble up some joe shade tree hydraulic units.... Listen up! I just had the local ex-Nam deuce mechanic replace a rear...

October 7th, 2009. I may be looking for a complete serviceable rear cargo bow for my Swiss 1963 Unimog S404.114 to repair a damaged front cargo bow ditto. I have a German S404.114 bow, but it may not get it due to differences in the design. If anyone's got one for sale, let me know...

September 18th, 2009. Anyone found a way to make Beachwood OD cab paulin canvas (new) watertight enough to survive six days of rain outside??? My 1963 S.404.114 Unimog Swiss Cargo carrier has just had a new canvas top made out of the WWII/Korean War color canvas, and the spray waterproofer...

August 10th, 2009. Dear Sir or Madame: Any chance I can get a copy of the Bill of Sale for an item I won in March 2008? It was from the Norman ,OK yard and was Sale 3263 Lot 6305 . The EMail address changed, but I believe the one on GL for me now is correct. I've been...

April 26th, 2009. :?: Gentlemen: A while back I heard from the owner of my 1961 USMC M422A1 who lives down in Philadelphia, Pa and still has the mite I sold him back in the 1980's or early 1990. The hood number was, I believe, USMC304575 or something near it. If...