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Regardless of how much I like all the vehicles this month, I have to stick with loyalty to my friend and vote for Mkcoen's Champ. While doing so, I will mention that the Champ is probably the quietest military vehicle I've been around, you can't hear the engine running even standing right next...

Look up TB 43-0209 dated from 1990 in the Manuals section of the TM forum. Paint patterns from that manual for the M923/M925 attached here. 1 is Black 2 is Green 3 is Brown Cheers

I agree on the smaller wheel making it tough to steer. I babysat an M109 on 395s for a couple of years, it was a pain to steer at very low speed, even with the full sized wheel. Cheers

The seat cushion top is 15" from the floor level. I have one box seat in my M109. Many years ago, I bought an M185 from Ft Sam with that box seat in it. Halfway through the 110 mile drive home, I was in so much back pain from that %$#^ seat I was ready to abandon the truck on the side of the...

T13 armoured car Cheers

Well, I'm still impressed. ;) I never thought highly of that retention method for the handle, though with the leg in the stowed position it probably borders on almost adequate. The potential for it taking an unauthorized walk with whomever might choose to pull that pin is another...

Your estimates were pretty close! Attached are the actual measurements. I neglected to add to the picture the measurement of the slots on the fixed side, they are 1/2" deep x 1/4" wide. What is, I imagine, obvious is that the 'hand' part of the handle is pipe that rotates around a fixed...

Here is the original handle that came with my M116A3 based HSTRU trailer. They are pretty simple, and would be easy to replicate, I think. I can measure it up for you later today (a frog strangling rain was beginning as I headed back to the house with the pictures!) Cheers Cheers

Msgjd and Fasttruck, since you seem to have a problem with that conversion from M54 to M813, ask David Doyle about it, since he is who I got my information from. I don't think you will find many people who will dispute that he is an authority on military vehicles, and he has done the research...

Brent Mullins just cancelled his event at the Museum of the American GI. :( That word is direct from him, their website is not yet updated. Muster Day on Camp Mabry is "postponed until later in the year, date to be determined". Cheers

It is, though you may get skunked! The Air Force only come through during certain phases of their training syllabus, and at unpredictable times. A friend into photography got buzzed out here one day, was very excited and came back with all his gear. We hung around for several hours, but the...

My farm lies directly under an Air Force low-level navigation route, and I have the top of a hill, so I get the trainers out of Randolph AFB regularly coming over my place at around 200' (low enough that I can read their numbers, smell the exhaust and sometimes get waved at by the T-6 pilots)...

On my old '68 Chevy 4x4 the front turn signals used to come on when the brakes were used, found that the wiring had come loose underneath and was touching the muffler, which melted the insulation off and caused a short. New wire that didn't touch the muffler, and all worked as it should...

As Barrman mentioned the Lone Star MVPA meets in the museum on Camp Mabry at 7pm on the third Wednesday each month. Come in the main gate off 35th Street, show your ID to the security folks and tell them where you are going. Cheers

M-X mobile ICBM system, designed to have the launchers wander about so they could not be targeted by a Soviet first strike. The project had problems (among them deployment of missiles that were not operational so they would "look" deployed to the Soviets), the whole project was scrapped when...

The white over OD green is the old Army admin vehicle scheme, used for non-tactical vehicles, MPs, etc. Unless the Army wanted a 1009 in an obsolete scheme for some special use, I'd personally theorize that a previous civilian owner painted it that way. CU0197 would be the registration, but...

Ha! Two of us posted at the same time!

FS 34052 is the colour code for flat Marine green. If you want semi-gloss, it is 24052. Rapco Parts has it in gallons or spray cans, I've used their paint for 20+ years and been very happy with it. Lets see this jeep as you progress! Cheers

Not necessarily. The military didn't buy any dual rear wheel CUCVs from the factory, all were later conversions from a GM kit provided in a big crate and were usually converted at depot level, but many were done at unit level. M1028 and M1028A1 were both single rear wheel trucks. M1028A2 and...

They can be towed without air by caging the trailer brakes. Most of the ones I've seen being sold by GP already have them caged so they can move them around. Cheers