From: vj watson (halftrackman@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 15:41:05 PDT
sound good to me frank, when you and bobby get a chance head over, we will
go all over the halftrack, so spring here,it will be all work, but will be
fun. it time for the halftracker to go to work, tell bobby hello wendell
>From: "froberts" <froberts@midsouth.rr.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] all work and no play
>Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:16:39 -0500
>
>Hi Wendell,
> Still have not gotten a chance to come see you. Bobby and I were talking
>yesterday about making a trip over there. If you would, PLEASE send me the
>measurements. Let me know what I owe you.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf
>Of vj watson
>Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:39 AM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [MV] all work and no play
>
>hi tim, if you or frank want to make up repo, armor for you halftrack,s i
>be glade to send the measurment, off my halftrack, i repo alot of my armor
>my self, buy the steel already cut, drill you holes and counter sink your
>self. just think of all the fun. drilling and cussing. yes shipping is a
>big deal now days.money, money, but don,t put 20k in a 12 k halftrack. it
>don,t add up. i started with junk, too. i got 25 hunderd in my halftrack,
>and a lot of cussing, but i walk and talked halftrak,s for ten years, also
>a friend of mind in greenville tx. will be glade to help, and he is gun ho,
>about halftracks. but i still got three more halftrack to restore, the
>bed,s
>
>are gone of course,but they all are drivable. but i will keep at it.
>wendell
>
>in tn.
>
>
> >From: timothy.smith1@att.net
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Subject: [MV] all work and no play
> >Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:25:20 +0000
> >
> >Well, I'm happy to report that I think I've finally found a front bumper
> >for my half track with some help from a member of this list. Shipping
> >expense is gonna be a 24 carat gold plated muthah if I can get this
>bumper.
>
> > I should have taken up stamp collecting.
> >
> >Lads, the mil-veh list is what it is. I dare say most of us are old
>enough
>
> >to remember the days when we had party lines for our telephones. Try to
> >think of it that way. There is always a certain amount of monkey
>business
> >going on but if you can't at LEAST appreciate the humor in it and if you
> >can't appreciate the fact that there are quite a few guys out there who
> >still know how to have fun, then you have my pity. Your life must be
>very
> >dull...and for you guys who want everything just SO...well, I'm glad
>you're
>
> >not cops because you'd be out there writing tickets for 1 mph over the
> >limit and driving everyone plumb crazy. Hold the reins loosely!
> >
> >I've seen a lot of posts lately dealing with what the mil-veh list IS and
> >what it SHOULD be, but very little about what everyone is doing with
>their
> >MV's lately. So I'm gonna jump start this puppy and see if y'all will
> >follow suit.
> >
> >It's SPRING, when many of us turn to thoughts of what we want to be doing
> >with our MV's. I just sold my Corvette and am looking forward to
>tackling
> >the half track and maybe do a bit on the Scout Car. Here is what's
>coming
> >up (if I have my way).
> >
> >I have Gary Hebding lining up the remaining little parts I need for
> >overhauling the rear suspension. New tracks and rollers are the order of
> >the day as well as servicing the back brakes and idlers while I'm in
>there.
> >
> >Buying Gary's repro rear armor/floor kit is simply out of my reach
> >financially. My current back end is a hybrid with some home-made parts
> >that lack some detail. Not nasty, but not nearly right. I think I can
> >make it better. Not to be stopped by a little thing like lack of dough,
> >I'm planning on buying a plasma cutter and perhaps a sheet metal brake
>and
> >getting on with it come hell or high water. What the hell...they can
>kill
> >me, but they can't eat me. Oh, and I'm going to tackle my driver
>comparment
>
> >floor panels. They rattle and that makes me nuts. Can't wait to shut
>them
>
> >up!
> >
> >I have two original rear side armor panels and a rear inner fender for
>the
> >Scout which I plan on having reproduced locally. Since they are mirror
> >images right and left, I'm good to go. The floor is very rudimentary and
> >the Army has a complete Scout nearby that I can examine for accurate
> >measurements on just about everything. It'll feel good doing SOMETHING
>on
> >the Scout Car. It has been sitting for SO long!
> >
> >What do you deuce-a-holics do for fun? I'd LOVE to have the deuce with
>the
>
> >rotater boom crane / wrecker.
> >
> >Last thing...some advice for everybody. Relax and enjoy the hobby, enjoy
> >the mil-veh list, Steel Soldiers and whatever MV fun you can
> >find...where-ever you can find it.
> >
> >Regards,
> >TJ
> >
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