. Nice collection plowboy, whats your plans for those that aren't for parts? I may be willing to speak for a hardtop too, but I might work on the parts truck locally first that had a hardtop
Plans??? We're not supposed to have plans are we? Dagnabbit! The local MVPA collectors saw the G749 farm as a good spot to plant trucks to see if they'd grow into moving, preserved creatures. So far we've got the shop van M207 preserved, the M211 next to the preservation barn, parts distributed across Canada and the U.S., 3 cabs saved and another M135 on the highway with a crate transmission and engine. The original plan was to get three on the road for events and we nailed that this year. All the potential engines have been turned, oiled and protected from freezing so this fall we're going to have a test stand completed for drive-trains.....if I have anything to say about it!
The G749 series got a bad reputation as a difficult animal to tame and we like a challenge. I strongly believe that if they are main tamed they just keep going and going and going. There's a very cool Canadian history on the G749 trucks that few know about and we're going to make sure that the northern involvement in the protection of our continent isn't forgotten!
I'm grabbing photos tomorrow of the back panels so we have a bit of a database of available pieces I'd be willing to part with regarding hard-tops. There are more trucks up north, about an hour from home, that have been hoarded for decades and I'm still working on getting parts of them to good homes. I did manage to negotiate the acquisition of a burned up "Flying Kitchen" M135 that was used in the recovery operations of Kosmos 945 back around 1978. At some point, a museum, next to a large trail area could be created, so the trucks can be loaded with guests and keep the history rolling. We won't call it a plan though, more like a desire to preserve a Steel Soldier's life so the men and women who served with the G749 will always be remembered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
then we would be set for at least a few years if we needed parts and pieces of tops made.