From: GOTaM35 (GOTaM35@joetrapp.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 20:00:56 PST
First off let me thank all the good folks that have sent me pictures and
info on the Scout car. I can tell WW2 vehicles are more admired than the
ugly old M35 by the quantity and quality of the responses. So many people
have emailed me and volunteered their resources, both time and material, to
help with my project that I figured it would be best to ask everyone a few
questions.
1. I am trying to determine the year of my car and was wondering if anyone
would be kind enough to send me a little info on their serial numbers. I
wouldn't want anyone to send the actual number, but if anyone wants to send
me maybe the year of their car, the number of digits in the serial number
and maybe the first number and the last couple that might help. Again, I
wouldn't want anyone to send what would be considered to be sensitive info.
I wouldn't want someone to have the serial number to my car. What I believe
to be the serial number is a 6 digit number that begins with a "2" and the 5
remaining numbers exceed the number of cars reported to have been produced.
If 20,00 were produced and my serial number was 012586 I would at least
entertain the thought it was the 12,586th vehicle produced. Since the
number is 2xxxxx, that obviously does not mean it was the 2xx,xxxth vehicle
of 20,000 produced. Wow, I've confused myself.
2. The rear axle leaf springs are not attached at the rear of the axle
(missing shackles). I noticed the Scout car located at ft. Jackson has the
spring above the axle hanger (attached rigidly to the front hanger and
shacked at the rear) but the other frames I photoed at Gary's all had the
spring under the hanger. I don't know the year of the Ft. Jackson car, but
I hope to contact the museum and find out. Did some hang above and others
below. This will of course affect the height of the rear of the vehicle
when I start to fab up pieces for it. I have concluded I need to put a
skeleton floor and side Armour on it so everyone will quite saying "you
drove to Chicago and paid money for that?". It does look a little naked at
the present.
Speaking of which I did post a picture of my car (with nephew attached) and
the one at the Fort on my web site. Its funny, the car at the fort looks
good from a distance, but is missing a lot of stuff and the interior is
pretty trashed. Several people have send me pictures of restored cars and
this had helped a lot in determining what is missing and what it is supposed
to look like. Well here's the link:
http://www.joetrapp.com/pages/679984/index.htm
Thanks again for all the great info.
Joe Trapp
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