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I guarantee I've got you ALL out-nerded!
"It's a 106 miles to Chicago, We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it!"
Wow.. Do I hear the "Peter Gunn Theme"
BTW.. You're out of "uniform" there, Elwood..
Speaking of uniforms.. Closest I ever came to a "Hollywood ride", was way back around 1986.. This pic was taken in '96 or so, not long after I'd finshed partially restoring the thing, at least externally..
I'm in the right seat.. (Colonels rate a WAC driver.)
Bought it in 1986 with the intent of fully restoring it and getting it running.. But "the best-laid plans", etc, etc, etc...
I did all the welding, sheet-metal, and body-work/paint on it myself (who says that a local community college's voc-ed courses are useless? Especially when you can use the school's shop and tools)
The seat-covers came from a DRMO'd M151, but the windshield was the hardest part to find.. Finally found one after about 6 years, but it was bent, rusted, and a lotta work to repair, and the school didn't have the hydraulic press I needed to repair it.. Ended up taking it to a body-shop, but man.. That cost a LOT to fix.. Actually more than I'd paid for the damn thing in the first place..
The windsheld glass is actually Plexiglass... I decided that that was a good money-saving measure, and I was right.. I got the "glass" for 20.00.. Try find windshield glass for a '43 Willys if you don't believe me, lol..The tires I got from an M102 howitzer, a 1/4-ton trailer (and the spare came from a broke-down Texas Air Guard M151 that was un-Guarded.. get it?) on a trail in Ft Hood one night.. But the four mains were actually paid for, but I got 'em at the local National Guard OMS, so I got 'em for a song..
Never did find an engine, tranny, transfer case or either prop-shaft for it though, so no drive-train... Didn't have an electrical or fuel system either, for that matter.. Or working gauges, shocks, or back seat. Basically, it was an incomplete 1/1 scale kit-bash, lol...
Towed it behind a tractor or a pick-up in the local Memorial and Veteran's Day parades a few times, though...
Ended up selling it in '99 (due to 3rd ex-wife and me disagreeing on which one of us was gonna live in the house after we separated.. She won that arguement, BTW).... With no place to keep it for future completion (and no money anymore either), and the Ex keeping my house (yeah, she got the garage too.. I had to do it that way to keep the boat. But the boat is another story), half my stuff and half my money, I had to let it go to another collector..
He had it up and running in a couple-three months, dammit...'Course, he had several WW2 Army vehicles, to include a running Deuce & a half, M3 half-track and M5 Stewart too...
*Sniff*, I miss her SO much... *Sniff*...
The Jeep, that is...
Maybe when I win the Lottery, I'll get a couple.. Maybe turn one into an SAS jeep.. Want an M151A2 too.. Drove one of those many, many miles... Sigh..
Oh yeah.. Back On Topic..
Went to the Comic Book Store that Saturday too.. Not a single "Enemy Ace" comic in the deck... And the Graphic Novels of "The War in Heaven"? Not free at all..
And WTF happened to MY Batman??? The one I looked through shocked me! D ick Grayson is now Batman??? 'Course, I have to admit that I haven't followed Batman and Robin since about 1972...
Nothing there was anything close to what I remembered about my comic books...
Phooey to it...