Friday Art Shot
The Society’s 1970 M35 A2 in her new Vietnam “Yellow Nose” convoy configuration Its getting the full South East Asian conflict treatment...
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May 30, 20181 min read
Track Time !
Here are a few candid pics of the inside drivers position and engine bay of our Belgian CVR(T) Scorpion. She is an early hull number...
May 29, 20181 min read
inside and outside
A few more from the fleet run up! Here is our Ferret and Rad Van Pinz getting some sun, and a few shots from inside the Pinz, plus, a few...
May 28, 20181 min read
Noses and Tails
a bit behind this year with the long winter that took forever to leave, we are now getting the fleet out of storage and run up ahead of...
May 23, 20181 min read
clean up in the axle isle !
…this is a good idea of what the inside of a 72 year old untouched drive line looks like ! its a full clean up, inside and out. We are...
May 22, 20181 min read
..and…we’re back !
, Sorry for the unplanned lack of updates , shortly after my last post on the 4th of may, I had to step out for a family “emergency” ,...
May 4, 20181 min read
Friday Art Shots
…As you may have noted in this Blog, we love old casting lot numbers ! and, original NOS Packaging from the early 1940’s !
May 3, 20181 min read
before and afters, and a start on the floor !
Getting “back into the weeds” now with some small but no less important details. We have started on cab floor section, in particular the...
Apr 27, 20181 min read
Friday Art Shot
sometimes I need to go back and see what she looked like ! todays mission is the rebuild of the armor on the windshield frame, so we...
Apr 26, 20181 min read
easier going back on !
lots of what we do is “job planning”, that is, re-assemble the M3 in easy steps that will not hinder later fit up, so, while the armor is...
Apr 25, 20181 min read
Upper Cowl Armor, and more NOS goodness !
we are getting the first of the armor ready to go back on, as we are starting with the front cowl section that builds off the already...
Apr 23, 20181 min read
front springs and mounts, and a comment on paint
Special Thanks to Malmberg Truck in Ottawa for the great rebuild of the front spring packs! all mounted now and awaiting the front axel...
Apr 23, 20180 min read
Apr 17, 20181 min read
progesssive pics!
with parts flowing regularly from our skilled painters at the Star Motors Mercedes Benz of Ottawa Body Shop, we are quickly assembling...
Apr 3, 20181 min read
before and after – booster
quite the new look !
Apr 2, 20181 min read
rear brakes and booster
Every time we do a resto, we of course pay particular attention to the braking systems, knowing that these components, even though they...
Mar 23, 20181 min read
electric brake controller detail
Finished up the overhaul and install of the “advanced for its time” electric brake controller. We found a production date of May 20 1943...
Mar 21, 20181 min read
finally, before and AFTER pictures !
well, we’ve turned the corner and now stuff is getting put back on to our freshly painted frame ! here are a few “before and afters”...
Mar 1, 20181 min read
framed !
a big happening today as the frame was loaded up by our friends at D and M tilt and load for its trip to the sandblasters and then to our...
Feb 13, 20181 min read
the” repilcants !”
some of this stuff is made of “unobtainium”….so, our only recourse is to make the missing bits! case in point the scarce non milspc 1930s...
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