Rattle Trap
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I went to the surplus store for a Fusie dust cover that would look cool too. WWII camo 24x12 parachute. $85 after tax. Just barely covers the bumpers. Now I'll sew in an antenae grommit and its all good!
Indoor Car Cover
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polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Looks like a big turtle
Nice...........
commando1
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There's still WW II parachutes left?
There's a lot of WWII stuff left..........we're still shooting the stuff today.
That's just the bullet (205 lbs each)......plus a 7 lb fuse and 77 lbs of gunpowder (Zone 8 White Bag) to shoot the bullet.
Powder for the bullets...
That's just the bullet (205 lbs each)......plus a 7 lb fuse and 77 lbs of gunpowder (Zone 8 White Bag) to shoot the bullet.
Powder for the bullets...
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You pro's get all the good stuff....!
There was a couple big shell's like that a couple months ago. They were gone yesterday. Dony even wanna know how much they cost...
Ya gotta be careful at surplus stores today. There's as much stuff with, Made in..Heche en..Fabrique in.. as not. Sometimes it's best to ask. But losta good bargains. I picked up Goodyear Wrangler RT II's, 36x12.5-16.5 on Humvee rims and like new for $189ea! Gona hafta pay to get em on my rims tho. My machine won't handle that size...
A big turtle...Lol!!!
There was a couple big shell's like that a couple months ago. They were gone yesterday. Dony even wanna know how much they cost...
Ya gotta be careful at surplus stores today. There's as much stuff with, Made in..Heche en..Fabrique in.. as not. Sometimes it's best to ask. But losta good bargains. I picked up Goodyear Wrangler RT II's, 36x12.5-16.5 on Humvee rims and like new for $189ea! Gona hafta pay to get em on my rims tho. My machine won't handle that size...
A big turtle...Lol!!!
Wollfen
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US Military policy during World War Two was that for every single piece of equipment in the field being used, there must be at least 6 units of equipment in store. Spare parts for the equipment had to be in even greater numbers. During the pacific campaign when they were Island hopping towards Japan and had built up a miltary infrastructure on the island they would abandon the equipment on the island and simply offload a fresh lot of equipment at the next island rather than spend the manpower gas etc to repack it all and find an empty ship to put it in(all ships that had offloaded supplies immediately returned to the states for a fresh load), load it, transport it and then unload all over again. With fresh liberty ships arriving from San Francisco daily it was easier to simply offload the newly arrived ship at the next island. AT the time, when the convoy of ships left San Francisco harbor the entire lot was written off never to return. i have seen pictures taken by a friend of mine who visited Goodenough Island new Papua New Guinea and i saw racks of brand new wings for aircraft in crates that were falling apart and he also showed me pictures of fighter aircraft fuselages with their engines still in them in rows. The crates had fallen apart over the years but you could see the remains around the bottoms of the fuselages.
I used to do a fair amount of research in regards the US Military presence in Australia during the war and found that the amount of equipment the american government left here was astounding. At the end of the war the US personnel in Australia simply did whatever it could to get rid of all their equipment, buried it if they were too far inland or as a lot of was done with it, dumped into the ocean off the east coast of Australia. Then the liberty ships in every port were stripped out and filled with bunks to act as troop carriers and six months after the war ended, all US presence had left Australia. The second hand vehicles left by the US military would be auctioned off by the acre and that acre would have rows of vehicles parked nose to tail with walking space between each row. I talked to an old fellow in country Victoria who told me he bought 10 000 tons of tanks and spares in a single lot at the end of the war, when i saw what he had left there was still a couple of hundred tons left, brand new radial tank engines, sprockets, tank tracks, spark plugs by the crateful. Even that was more than my mind could comprehend.
I used to do a fair amount of research in regards the US Military presence in Australia during the war and found that the amount of equipment the american government left here was astounding. At the end of the war the US personnel in Australia simply did whatever it could to get rid of all their equipment, buried it if they were too far inland or as a lot of was done with it, dumped into the ocean off the east coast of Australia. Then the liberty ships in every port were stripped out and filled with bunks to act as troop carriers and six months after the war ended, all US presence had left Australia. The second hand vehicles left by the US military would be auctioned off by the acre and that acre would have rows of vehicles parked nose to tail with walking space between each row. I talked to an old fellow in country Victoria who told me he bought 10 000 tons of tanks and spares in a single lot at the end of the war, when i saw what he had left there was still a couple of hundred tons left, brand new radial tank engines, sprockets, tank tracks, spark plugs by the crateful. Even that was more than my mind could comprehend.
rexus31
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Any chance you can get your hands on those pics and post them here?
Wollfen
Old Man with a Hat
Ill do some digging, i will contact him in Aus and see if he can scan any and send em over.
Wollfen
Old Man with a Hat
Here is a cool shot of abandoned Mig 17's from the 1950's still sitting at an airbase shut down in the 1990's. This pic was from last year. I think that the airforce still flew them until the place was shut down. Ah to have some entrepreneurial spirit and a pocketful of cash. Aluminum gets good money in scrap.
rexus31
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Very cool!
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That's a great idea for a car cover and we have a couple of local Army surplus stores, one right on Woodward, I'll have to pay a visit. I've been thinking I'd like to have a cover for it when I'm doing something dusty in the shop otherwise I can't imagine ever covering it up because I love to look at it all throughout the day.
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Thats a nice shop you have there Matt, I wish I could have stayed longer after our trip to Bobs. Have you made any headway on any of your projects since I was there?
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Whataya kiddin me? 3 brake jobs, including new hardlines on 2. 4 oil changes. Son decided he wants the Bronco, so wash scrub with purple power and a laundry brush. Then I hit that dead paint with cleaner polish while he swept it back to immaculate. Still gota buff it now that it's in a condition for it... Got all that nos F body sheetmetal up in the trusses and moved all the other crap in that section of the 'dark side'. Including the Rivi. So tomorrow I start taking 1-1/2 inch off the stone under that pressboard and visqueen so I can pour a deeper floor than originally planned. Oh, picked up more Pex and crete mesh already for that too. Sold the boat Friday... Hmm, Nope! Ain't got a damn thing done that I wanted to do...
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Wollfen, U kiddin? Those MIGs scrap? That's a Classic design! The 17-19 beat the snot outa our F-84--86's! Man, if those airframes could be recertified it would make a new era in personal air transportation! There's a 17 in a woods nearby. Or there was 10yrs ago.. Had a Texan next to it and something I couldn't quite see behind em. They were barely visible in the clearing during late winter but I've never taken the opportunity to stop at the house and ask about em.
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Sorry I asked, I'm exhausted just reading that! Post up a pic of the car you drove to Bobs, I'm sorry I didn't take one of it myself! Which one of the cars in your sig was that?
any bights on the Cadillacs?
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really?!!!
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Just a guess, I wasn't about to trespass further than the edge of thd road. But it was silver with a red star, too pretty to be an F-86 and not quite pretty enugh to be a 19...
To the rest, that's why we bought a NICE C body only needing details. I'm always busy doing everything but what I'd like to be doing if there were time to choose.
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Oh.. No bites on the Caddy's but the guy who stopped by as we were saying goodbye, who thinks his brother may be interested now that the Bronco he originally stopped about isn't available anymore. I'm really getting tempted to take the hoe out front and dig a pit to stuff that 61 Coupe DeVille into and makeit a sun-dial driveway marker! Sort of a KMA to everybody that's driven by since last year...
The car I was driving was actually the 76 Premier, despite it's altered appearance. Here's a pix, sorry this is the best I have on the phone...
Guess not. The photo upload is being hateful. I'll try again later
The car I was driving was actually the 76 Premier, despite it's altered appearance. Here's a pix, sorry this is the best I have on the phone...
Guess not. The photo upload is being hateful. I'll try again later
That would make a great lawn ornament..........I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't agree. LOL!
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