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hello captain crank. if ok , could you post some pictures of you military vehicle collection, i have seen some of yours vehicles pictures in the MVPA, and the military vehicles magazine, you sure got a great collection of big trucks and wreckers. i all so got the calander with your...

I use to live in garland tx. in the 80ee, was in the chinook unit at grand prairie, if you get the m170 restored, they have a audey murphy day in greenville tx. and a parade. so try out the parade. my friend has a halftrack and other good thing in greenville. they hope to start having...

you not going to believe this.a few years back, i bought a m170 and m38a1 and ww2 ih truck 5 ton. from a junk yard for 12 hundred, but they need a lot of work, i trade the m170 for a lot of halftrack parts. but still got the 5 ton tractor and m38a1, also found a complete m38a1 engine for 1...

I have got some parts for a radio set up, it a large braded cable goes in the grill and radiator with a cooler on it, . the other end has some parts on it. i got a m381a that i am going to restore.

Well i am glad you found it, you might can get it flying some day, hope you not missing a lot of parts. that will be the thing that cost so much. but you can paint and make it looks good for a display. i put 15 years working and flying on hueys and blackhawks , i kind of got burned...

I had 7 tires that are 1100x20 change, they had been on there about 30 years, the man let the air out. used a breaker bar to re move the ring, pour a little gas around the bead and rim let it set for a while, then use the duck bill hammer and went around the tire and rim hitting the...

mark , have you been to the audie murphy day event in june, i think, its in june, my friend lives there in greenville has his halftrack at the event ever years, they try to get more folks to be there and bring there military vehicles. :beer:

I sure hate to see fort knox move, i did not know about the move. . In 1962 i did my basic training there. we did heart break hill, and marched all over that place, no rides at all in those days. but i,v been back there several times for military training. In 02 we were there doing door...

It,s not easy give a price on something like this, but there is ww2 M.V. folks would like to own the gen, set, i would like to own it my self. i got a small ww2 pu-32 /c gen set, but its just for a display, the gen set are heavy , not easy to move too. :)

thanks 73x, i be up for the beer:-D i sure like going to the vfw and AL. the north has the best post of all, plenty of food and the bar, wow we don,t got much going down here. a lot of the post down here do not have a bar. my nephews live in westland, they in to cars, i am going to try...

The westland vfw did have a tank at the post, but having not been there in a while. i was in the american legion post in Livonia. also enjoyed going to thunder over mi. each year.:-D

thanks merry christmas to you and all wendell

thanks for the pictures, looks great. the other day my nephew come by with his 53 m37 pulling a 105 trailer, had both stack with fire woods. i should of took a picture to post. we us locust for fence post in the old days. they last for ever. are you going to get the big snow in the...

well i got a 53 or 54 trailer to trade for the ww2 trailer, but it need work too.

yes , it sure is a goof up. but the army is special, they just do things like that to keep you alert. did you know in the past fort Eustic had navy folks station there, they were going to be on the new carries they were building at new port new. man we all had a blast, at the nco club, good...

armor all will doing in tires. it will dry rot them. just keep rubber out of sun and keep dry. keep inside if possible, , inside a box with no light. park vehicle over gravels or concret if possible. the ground will doing in tires and body very fast. drive some when possible. i do not...

I am old, but gold. i was in the army during the cuban crisis . then my army ended in 03, i flew with the elvis bunch, that what fort campbell called them. they put a end to the brothers in iraq. put me in the above 60 group. life is good

ndt is right, move by trailer if possible. if drive any distance, all the bogie need grease, idelers, it would need a complete servicing of oil and grease, also ever thing under the hood, gen. dist. i ruined the tran. on my first halftrack, i ran the engine , but did not check the tran. oil...

i got a 1943 IHC m426 5 ton tractor or semi. they made 15 thousand of them. i found a fuel tanker and the 8 ton trailer to pull. so i like the ihc but parts can be a problem. but the gmc cckw will cost a lot of money also to restore. so if you can find one all ready restored , and at a...

thanks you, sure is nice. 2 miles wow:-D