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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:44:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alex_F: Check to make sure they didn't drink all the brake fluid Well, sir, the roadwheel's cracked. Kaminski drank our brakes. We're low on petrol. The battery's low. We're losing oil. If the engine heats up it's gonna seize. The terrain, obviously against us. We have no rations. The Mujas behind us don't seem to run on rations, petrol, or anything we know of. And they have an RPG. Their aim is getting better. Sir. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:47:05 PM EDT
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In all seriousness, this is how I ended up with a very nice PVS-14.
My wife got scared of something in the back yard at night, so I mentioned how nice it would be if I had night vision. She approved, and I dropped $4k the next day :) |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:51:52 PM EDT
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I'm interested in the price of one of these fine vehicles as well. I may soon have an empty place in the garage I might need to fill.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:02:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Both will be finished this year and going to acquire a third one next year. Are you sure you're not repeating yourself from last year? The last time I was trying to help you find brake lines, my Father in Law was still alive. What if you got both of em running first and set a goal of keeping them both running for two years before you bought anything else? That would give you a baseline of everyday maintenance needed as well as a lift in the pocketbook. Running VICs also attact krewe who can help with the everyday level 1 maintenance tasks. Non-running armored VICs scare mechanically minded people. |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:19:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: ... Those are pocket sized and fun. Get one! That's the long term goal. I already have a '43 MB, a tracked vehicle is the next step up. 
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:24:18 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By thunderw21: I've been bugging my wife for an M20 Weasel. No dice yet, so I need to keep at it I guess. Get it road legal and it'd be the perfect blizzard vehicle.  https://i.imgur.com/fVn62kM.jpeg Photo is a little grainy, but I think everyone inside that his a smile of their face. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 3:04:30 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: Are you sure you're not repeating yourself from last year? The last time I was trying to help you find brake lines, my Father in Law was still alive. What if you got both of em running first and set a goal of keeping them both running for two years before you bought anything else? That would give you a baseline of everyday maintenance needed as well as a lift in the pocketbook. Running VICs also attact krewe who can help with the everyday level 1 maintenance tasks. Non-running armored VICs scare mechanically minded people. M35ben and I couldn't figure out the brake problem but the guys I am working with now absolutely can. I'm not taking any chances and it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Every seal is going to get replaced. I have a new polish source that's going to get all the parts. Roland is getting towards the end of being completed. It's already been running. Now just need to get the tie rod and some smaller bits taken care of and put it all back together. Maintaining them is easy. What I am fighting is neglect and a lack of time. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 4:31:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: M35ben and I couldn't figure out the brake problem but the guys I am working with now absolutely can. I'm not taking any chances and it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Every seal is going to get replaced. I have a new polish source that's going to get all the parts. Roland is getting towards the end of being completed. It's already been running. Now just need to get the tie rod and some smaller bits taken care of and put it all back together. Maintaining them is easy. What I am fighting is neglect and a lack of time. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By backbencher: Are you sure you're not repeating yourself from last year? The last time I was trying to help you find brake lines, my Father in Law was still alive. What if you got both of em running first and set a goal of keeping them both running for two years before you bought anything else? That would give you a baseline of everyday maintenance needed as well as a lift in the pocketbook. Running VICs also attact krewe who can help with the everyday level 1 maintenance tasks. Non-running armored VICs scare mechanically minded people. M35ben and I couldn't figure out the brake problem but the guys I am working with now absolutely can. I'm not taking any chances and it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Every seal is going to get replaced. I have a new polish source that's going to get all the parts. Roland is getting towards the end of being completed. It's already been running. Now just need to get the tie rod and some smaller bits taken care of and put it all back together. Maintaining them is easy. What I am fighting is neglect and a lack of time. Not to mention, what happened to encouraging questionable decision making in the pursuit of interesting stories and pictures? Especially when it's someone else's time and money?
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Posted: 4/30/2024 5:24:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/30/2024 5:46:01 AM EDT
[#10]
she sounds like a keeper
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Posted: 4/30/2024 5:48:40 AM EDT
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I'd want a wheeled vehicle. Tracks are a PITA.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:17:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: M35ben and I couldn't figure out the brake problem but the guys I am working with now absolutely can. I'm not taking any chances and it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Every seal is going to get replaced. I have a new polish source that's going to get all the parts. Roland is getting towards the end of being completed. It's already been running. Now just need to get the tie rod and some smaller bits taken care of and put it all back together. Maintaining them is easy. What I am fighting is neglect and a lack of time. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By backbencher: Are you sure you're not repeating yourself from last year? The last time I was trying to help you find brake lines, my Father in Law was still alive. What if you got both of em running first and set a goal of keeping them both running for two years before you bought anything else? That would give you a baseline of everyday maintenance needed as well as a lift in the pocketbook. Running VICs also attact krewe who can help with the everyday level 1 maintenance tasks. Non-running armored VICs scare mechanically minded people. M35ben and I couldn't figure out the brake problem but the guys I am working with now absolutely can. I'm not taking any chances and it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Every seal is going to get replaced. I have a new polish source that's going to get all the parts. Roland is getting towards the end of being completed. It's already been running. Now just need to get the tie rod and some smaller bits taken care of and put it all back together. Maintaining them is easy. What I am fighting is neglect and a lack of time. My point is that a tracked VIC isn't going to make things better. You've had a Soviet VIC for how many years and I think the last time you had it almost really roadworthy, it caught fire. Get these two into actual maintenance mode for a couple of years, build up that bank account, then look at tracks. Maintaining American VICs with Uncle's money is easy. Restoring neglected foreign VICs with your own money and parts stolen from actual army motorpools in foreign countries is much more difficult, particularly during wartime. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:21:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By odiedodi: Check the inside, there could be soviet wallets. And Nazi gold in the fuel tanks! |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:26:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxLawDog: What country is it coming from? 10 years ago Czechoslovakia had a good supply for sale. I bet it's Ukraine. Ask me how I know |
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USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:33:26 AM EDT
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I guess get whatever you want when the taxpayers are paying.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:39:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DirkericPitt: I guess get whatever you want when the taxpayers are paying.  This is OP's money we're talking about.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 9:14:20 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By fadedsun: Backstory: DFW area got a good helping of snow and ice in 2021 (over 1/4 inch, so planes are falling, people dying, bread and milk out of the stores, the elderly being trampled) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/51435/IMG_0221_JPG-3200602.JPG Wife said this: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/51435/IMG_0323_JPG-3200606.JPG  Winning. JCSSA? |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 9:19:30 AM EDT
[#18]
Looks like JCSSA to me.
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MD, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:33:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tc556guy: I'd want a wheeled vehicle. Tracks are a PITA. Get both, buy a halftrack!
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USA
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:36:58 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Torf]
[#20]
"You had to ask permission?"
--Arfcom |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 3:58:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Torf: "You had to ask permission?" --Arfcom Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Torf: "You had to ask permission?" --Arfcom I bought the last vehicle without permission with mobilization money. I didn't hear the end of it for years. Originally Posted By EMSflyer: Looks like JCSSA to me. Originally Posted By tboesche: JCSSA? Maybe  Originally Posted By DirkericPitt: I guess get whatever you want when the taxpayers are paying. If that was the case I'd get something way cooler like a T72. But I mean, technically yes-I used Taxpayer money to buy both. Also called a paycheck and enlistment bonus Originally Posted By Aspida1776: I bet it's Ukraine. Ask me how I know Ukraine has nothing to do with this. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 4:04:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RustedAce]
[#22]
My wife is smart enough to not want a tracked commie garbage dump.
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Posted: 5/1/2024 2:41:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: fadedsun]
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: My point is that a tracked VIC isn't going to make things better. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: My point is that a tracked VIC isn't going to make things better. Doesn't matter if it doesn't make anything better, by the time I get the money for one I'll have both vehicles running. My FMC rate jumps from 0 to 50%. Better! Originally Posted By backbencher: You've had a Soviet VIC for how many years and I think the last time you had it almost really roadworthy, it caught fire. I've hit the road around a half dozen times. The biggest problem we have is the brakes. The "fire" was a single flame from a leaky oil gasket dripping onto the exhaust. Originally Posted By backbencher: Get these two into actual maintenance mode for a couple of years, build up that bank account, then look at tracks. They're not in maintenance mode, they're in rebuilding mode. Look at the roland-every single thing that's worn out is getting replaced from the ground up. New wheel bearings, springs, tires, tie rods, shocks, paint, periscopes, gaskets, king pins, drag link bar, plugs, wires, everything. BRDM is getting a lot of parts replaced too. I can sit back and let them sit there for a couple years and do little on them or I can push and get them both done this year and move on to the next project. I can't paint, insulate, and install electric doors until I get both of them out on the driveway. Originally Posted By backbencher: Maintaining American VICs with Uncle's money is easy. Restoring neglected foreign VICs with your own money and parts stolen from actual army motorpools in foreign countries is much more difficult, particularly during wartime. Roland has been easy. BRDM is a little harder but nothing undoable. Originally Posted By backbencher: This is OP's money we're talking about.The promotion to lead DG night stocker has benefits One of my biggest sources of pride is that I bought these through hard work and not theft and stealing. (Except the parts from Russia. That's not stealing, it's pre-emptive self defense of a third party) Had this bloody war not started I could have done a lot more. Originally Posted By RustedAce: My wife is smart enough to not want a tracked commie garbage dump. It's only a "tracked commie garbage dump" when you don't own one. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 3:17:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By thunderw21: I've been bugging my wife for an M20 Weasel. No dice yet, so I need to keep at it I guess. Get it road legal and it'd be the perfect blizzard vehicle.  M29 Weasel for sale |
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Posted: 5/2/2024 8:58:36 AM EDT
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Quote History50k gets you a BRDM2 that's way cooler. I didn't realize how expensive those little things were. |
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Posted: 5/2/2024 10:40:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: 50k gets you a BRDM2 that's way cooler. I didn't realize how expensive those little things were. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By MaxxII: M29 Weasel for sale 50k gets you a BRDM2 that's way cooler. I didn't realize how expensive those little things were. Looks like the Weasel runs though. |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 5/2/2024 12:33:31 PM EDT
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I would also be curious how much a BMP cost if someone knows.
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Posted: 5/2/2024 12:40:03 PM EDT
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I could just see myself finally getting that WWII Sherman tank that I have always wanted, and then promptly burying it up to the return rollers and throwing both tracks. Fuck all that.
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Posted: 5/2/2024 12:48:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Southernman077: I could just see myself finally getting that WWII Sherman tank that I have always wanted, and then promptly burying it up to the return rollers and throwing both tracks. Fuck all that. One of my upperclassmen did buy him a Sherman. His HOA tried booting it.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 8:14:52 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Both will be finished this year and going to acquire a third one next year. It took nearly 2 years to find new folks to get parts after our black market Russian guy went dark. I found an elderly guy in Poland who needs to supplement his pension and comes highly regarded. Why do you make everything, including things not about Ukraine, about Ukraine? What is with your derangement syndrome? @m4-ak @NemesisMind This thread is about something completely unrelated. People complain I post about Ukraine too much. Cool. Folks can say whatever they want. Then they go and drag Ukraine into non-Ukraine related threads. Mkay  More or less a critically endangered creature at this point. I would like the T72 hull, however. The TOS is used by my own branch so it's a neat vehicle Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By backbencher: Dude. You have two armored VICS that are not currently running. And you want to go to tracks? Both will be finished this year and going to acquire a third one next year. It took nearly 2 years to find new folks to get parts after our black market Russian guy went dark. I found an elderly guy in Poland who needs to supplement his pension and comes highly regarded. Originally Posted By M4-AK: but, Ukraine needs it worse than you do. Donate! Originally Posted By NemesisMind: OP's gaslighting has gone tier 1. Buy it and send it to Ukraine. Choose wisely. Why do you make everything, including things not about Ukraine, about Ukraine? What is with your derangement syndrome? @m4-ak @NemesisMind This thread is about something completely unrelated. People complain I post about Ukraine too much. Cool. Folks can say whatever they want. Then they go and drag Ukraine into non-Ukraine related threads. Mkay Originally Posted By 56xdx_Z: TOS-1A might be a good fit for clearing snow and ice from large areas like parking lots. probably all in use and backordered though More or less a critically endangered creature at this point. I would like the T72 hull, however. The TOS is used by my own branch so it's a neat vehicle I just now saw this. FadedSun, you are correct Sir. It was a poor attempt on my part at humor. Please accept my Apology. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 8:37:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By M4-AK: I just now saw this. FadedSun, you are correct Sir. It was a poor attempt on my part at humor. Please accept my Apology. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By M4-AK: Originally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By backbencher: Dude. You have two armored VICS that are not currently running. And you want to go to tracks? Both will be finished this year and going to acquire a third one next year. It took nearly 2 years to find new folks to get parts after our black market Russian guy went dark. I found an elderly guy in Poland who needs to supplement his pension and comes highly regarded. Originally Posted By M4-AK: but, Ukraine needs it worse than you do. Donate! Originally Posted By NemesisMind: OP's gaslighting has gone tier 1. Buy it and send it to Ukraine. Choose wisely. Why do you make everything, including things not about Ukraine, about Ukraine? What is with your derangement syndrome? @m4-ak @NemesisMind This thread is about something completely unrelated. People complain I post about Ukraine too much. Cool. Folks can say whatever they want. Then they go and drag Ukraine into non-Ukraine related threads. Mkay Originally Posted By 56xdx_Z: TOS-1A might be a good fit for clearing snow and ice from large areas like parking lots. probably all in use and backordered though More or less a critically endangered creature at this point. I would like the T72 hull, however. The TOS is used by my own branch so it's a neat vehicle I just now saw this. FadedSun, you are correct Sir. It was a poor attempt on my part at humor. Please accept my Apology. Heh. @HenryKnoxFineBooks - we's gonna rub that Sir in deep. 
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Posted: 5/10/2024 5:41:26 PM EDT
[#32]
I'm thinking more like M113A3. I can at least mount a M240 or M2 on that and it still gets more than 1mpg.
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Posted: 5/10/2024 11:23:49 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HenryKnoxFineBooks: I'm thinking more like M113A3. I can at least mount a M240 or M2 on that and it still gets more than 1mpg. While completely impractical, a Humvee with a semi M249 would be fun. Any US military truck w/ a ring mount & a semi M249 would be fun. A 2nd WW Jeep w/ an aluminum body, flat 4 Subaru (if it would fit), if not EFI & electronic ignition on a modern aluminum block that would, and a .308 M1919 w/ a M1917 water jacket would be even more fun. Most practical would be an uparmored Mercedes Sprinter 3500 or commercial box truck. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:11:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: baize82]
[#34]
Divorce her
So you can marry her again…and make the wedding perfect this time lol |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:12:28 AM EDT
[#35]
Tracked vehicles tend to motivate people to get out of your way
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:04:54 AM EDT
[#36]
You don't have a hair on your junk if you don't use it to drive the kids to school!
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:08:23 AM EDT
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Dude that’s awesome!
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:13:52 AM EDT
[#38]
I just can’t get over how OP needed to start a thread on how to remove a broken bolt from a thru-hole but feels competent enough to buy these things
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:35:16 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: My point is that a tracked VIC isn't going to make things better. You've had a Soviet VIC for how many years and I think the last time you had it almost really roadworthy, it caught fire. Get these two into actual maintenance mode for a couple of years, build up that bank account, then look at tracks. Maintaining American VICs with Uncle's money is easy. Restoring neglected foreign VICs with your own money and parts stolen from actual army motorpools in foreign countries is much more difficult, particularly during wartime. LOL. If I was near would lend a hand, sounds like he needs it .Love mil vehicles, grew up in motor pools, from Hood to Crailsheim, old man was Ordnance Corp. 1st Armor Div "Old Ironsides" Would love to own something tracked. Looked at M3 HST but even getting a hull with tracks no engine or tranny is $$$ not being rich as fuck sucks. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:21:43 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By centrarchidae: You don't have a hair on your junk if you don't use it to drive the kids to school! Bonus points if he does a neighborhood "car"pool with a full squad bay of kids, so he can drop the ramp and have them do a tactical dismount. 
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