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In spirit(s) we are there. You are in our thoughts. Robert and Olga

Swiss, did you get my mails? Or is your PM box overflowing?

First things first, Ron picked up his "new" transfer case from Docfarmall who brought it to the rally for him. Some more pics from the GA Rally 2014. These I definitely never posted before. That's it. Braking camp on the last day, time to leave. Rest in peace, my friend...

next batch: GA Rally 2014: engine swap Any's deuce. Have a look at that link, it has some good other pics of the people doing the swap. 1) Ron giving instructions how it should be prepared. 2) Spec Ops Sgt Robert (rmtaunton) coordinating whith Ron what's going to happen now, with...

Unfortunately, we cannot make it from the Czech Republic, but in mind we will be there. I have set the alarm clock for that afternoon, to raise a glass with you at least in spirit in Ron's memory.

Ron at the GA Rally 2014 Some pics with Ron, all from the 2014 GA Rally The TeePee. The first days I slept in Swiss' large tent, after Swiss and his family arrived, I slept in the pup tent he brought me. Had my stuff stored at the back of the TeePee. Enjoyed a quiet coffee with Ron most...

It is interesting how each of us has a different story and memories about Ron, but each show the same strong positive feeling in it. I remember that in 2014 at the GA rally, there was this memorial tent for TIGGER. My gut feeling says that Ron was not the kind of man who would like to see...

Goodbye to a good man. This is devastating news to hear, just saw this from a different thread, had been off-site and missed this thread til now. Did not read all of the posts, will do so later. When I came to the GA Rally in 2014, I ended up as Ron's neighbor and he took me in and helped...

MV of the Year and only two pages of canvassing or remarks? Get out the vote

Not lacking in love but flooded with 900 truck threads in the last years. It was already suggested that maybe the 5-ton threads should be split in old (M39 and 809 series) and 900 and later series, the same way there is a deuce line and an early deuce line.

Welcome to the site from the Czech Republic. Your English is ok, don't worry.

Voted for Migginsbros, mainly for pure persistence in adding their forklift to the mix month after month and campaigning for it endlessly. And its time again something else than the usual type of trucks get the price.

True, they don't know what they miss in their own country. There trains are more spacey than ours here in Europe,; well equipped, but they are muuuuch slllloooower. Went by train once from Washington to Dalhousie, New Brunswick (Canada). Very nice ride, but not the 85-100 mph of the...

Maybe time to change the colors of the banner of do something else with it to attract attention that we are now in the next phase of real voting for a design. I already started to ignore the banner when starting up.

There are some nice examples of 5-ton crew cabs on the site. DaveP has a nice tractor with sleeper with a trailer behind it (I think it is an M54 long frame to make room for the sleeper and still keep the fifth wheel. Bob or not, it all depends on what you want to do/achieve with the truck...

Again, this thread brings me back to some nice old times and recent times here and has a lot of links. Did not hear about that game since the 1980s. We used to play Risk until deep in the morning. One guy even going so far as to take it very personall and getting upset because somebody...

Driving our 5-ton in the Netherlands to the DoT for road safety testing. A friend of me and I decided one year in the mid 1980s that Christmas and Silvester was getting boring in the Netherlands, so we bought a Volkswagen T2 "hippie bus", threw a platform with mattress and sleeping bags in the...

You paid $ 2,500 for that monster??? That is scrap value or even less. That's not an impulsive buy but a good investment. Who cares about dents, gives it a really used military look. Also, you can start a steel band with some people inside hammering the dents out. Or use this technique with...

Now to your remarks in the first post. Not fitting in all streets of historic towns. Some streets you really don't fit, but most main streets even in historic towns are no problem. The biggest problem will be your turning circle and if you have power steering (a must). Another problem will be...

I will happily join the discussion and extend an invitation to visit us as well. I am a European: a Dutchman working in the Czech Republic with a French car bought from an Austrian party. I drove a 5-ton in the Netherlands. Not much, but still. And drove LHD cars (but not trucks) in the UK. And...