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You guys just pull the F104 around on weekends or weekdays too?
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Thanks for the kind words and thoughts. It's just a boxing match and the only time it knocks ya down is if ya drop your hands.....Like Ma said, "If it doesn't kill you it only makes you stronger".......or like Pops says, " If it doesn't kill ya it would surprise the **** out of us b'cuz we didn't think you'd see 20."........and if laying on the ground bleeding, "Come over here and I'll pick you up"Wow, I haven't read your thread in a while....Sorry to hear about the fire and the flood. Yes you are lucky you aren't closer to Calgary from the sounds of things. It also looks like you are starting to get a pretty awesome collection of old dueces!!! I wish i had a collection like that! The farm where my poor old M135 is being stored has been sold so it looks like i'll be bringing it home by the end of the summer, and i can't wait to start working on it. Keep up the good work! Cheers!
Originally, the CFR was on the doors, about 8 inches or so down from the window. If your truck has the usual multi layers of paint, you can carefully sand or chemically strip the paint until the numbers show. However, if the doors have ever been replaced, or swapped from another truck, or the truck was sandblasted, then the door numbers will not be correct.Where else on the G749 would we keep the CFR if not painted on the dash? http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/history_of_you_vehicle.htm
The tracking did not go into further detail than that for units. Sometimes I can figure out a bit more by looking at the old work orders, but I do not have the unit codes for all the various (and in some cases now extinct) units. Any move to overseas commitments would be shown though, as those get their own codes. I have a photo downstairs of a Cdn deuce in the Sainai I'll try and remember to post tonight.Thanks cmpman, Did we track where the trucks went after they were assigned to a base like Wainwright?
We were just talking about what the boys took to Egypt back in the late 50's and if the G749 may have gone with the first Peacekeepers.
Can't Thank you enough for the info...
Yes sir, every model I built as a kid growing up had a big white star on the door so this truck can stay a part of the American dream as well.The records that I do have pretty much point out the fact that those US markings on the M211 are just collectors fantasy and do not relate to the truck's service life.
That worked well, I invited SuperDave out and we found the serial number for the M207 Shop Van 52/50358. We also found out that a few of the trucks 'did not' have the frames stamped.The CFR may also be stamped into the frame, as was done on most SMPs in the 50s and 60s in Canada. I'll have a check of my two deuces and see if it shows up there.
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