> There was a netsite I visited recently, where a Canadian? fellow had
> an M135 for sale for $8000CDN, it had the most comprehensive spares list i
> have ever
> seen ie 17! engine rebuild kits, at least 2 or 3 of everything NOS.
A huge quantity of NOS M-135CDN stuff was dumped from inventory when the
trucks were declared obsolete in 1984. Many of us in B.C.'s lower mainland
still have valve-grind/head gasket kits aplenty, and there were also crates
upon crates of rebuilt transmissions, NOS heads (less valves for the most
part) and more air-pack rebuild kits than you could possibly count before
going spare. One fellow even had a complete front end hub-to-hub, NOS and
in the crate, which had been languishing in some warehouse for years unused.
Lots of useless stuff too, of course, like mulitple copies of those bumper
reinforcing bits that hold the U-shackles, bunch of torque rods,
drive-shafts and other great hunks of heavy metal - but the odd NOS tarp and
end-curtain used to show up with reasonable regularity, still smelling nice
and Beachwood fresh, and with all the original hemp rope lovingly wound
around by some manufacturer in the mid-late 1960's.
The $8000.00 CDN price-range sounds about right for the one used in "First
Blood", and we had a 211 up here for sale for $5000.00 CDN that no one ever
nibbled at.
> It also featued a M135 crahing a derelict cop car side on. There is 3 foot
> dirt ramps
> built up on either side. It takes it fast, heaslights on, it is a 10 sec
> clip, repeated over.
They did something like that in Toronto for a show I don't recall, but the
plotline was that this crooked National Guard sergeant was siphoning off
supplies and equipment from an NY-environs guard facility for sale to some
mythical militia organization. Well, the truck he loads with the illicit
booty is an M135CDN, which I think is pictured ramming the cop car, before
rolling down a roadside embankment and ending up on its side. From what I
could tell from the footage, they didn't seem to use any 'cheats'
whatsoever, and the truck looked like someone just wasted a perfectly good
M135. Still, as noted above, there are a few around, and most people I know
in the collector sphere up here don't have too much use for them now that
M35A2's are fairly plentiful. We've a couple of good ones put aside for
eventual restoration for the museum, and probably have enough NOS stuff left
about to do a halfway decent job.
> Pulling apart my Jimmy, of course every fastener is rusted solid...break
out
> the cutting equip
Yeah. "Hot wrench" is what we call it. Fine thread hardware might be
wonderful for remaining relatively shake-proof over extended periods of
time, but trying to loosen the bastards off after fifty years usually leaves
you with cracked knuckles, a three-sided nut, and a bolt that for all
intents and purposes has just as many threads left as those pins that hold
your MG to its cradle. But with a nice "F" on the head.
Andy Hill
MVPA 9211
Vancouver, B.C.
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