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You show too much carnage; they stopped making M35a2s and CUCVs a long time ago and it hurts to see em all smashed up.
It's like taking in stray dogs and cats.
I save what I can.
 

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I tried to get into the Officer cadet program with the Canadian Coast Guard in 1981. It was going to be a three year free ENG Tech training. I had all the good grades in the high school sciences but lacked grade 9 French, I took German instead. All Good. Cold water and wet boots would be brutal in the Artic.
We were all from navy families.
And we were all from the commercial boat business.
It was expected.
I will never forget the navy recruiter.
Willy Massey. PO 1
This ******* guy was dedicated.
Dude actually popped out from behind a tree one day.
So the three of us go down to the recruitment office.
And they seperated my friend who we will call derp from me and my other friend.
So they show us this movie.
The movie is all about some guy going through boot camp but he is a total **** up
Late to everything sleeps in bad haircut etc........
all while being yelled at.
Hell, we grew up that way.
So mid way through this movie my to this day friend gave me the elbow and said,
That is pretty much our whole program.
Except the ****** part.
This guy chased every posibilty for sure.
Kept pushing the nuke program.
I was 6'4" 220.
I do not want to go under the sea.
I can barely swim.

He pressured my good friend to be a yoeman based on the fact that his father was a retired CPO Yoeman.
We both had FCC radiotelephone licences and enough certified sea time to sit for our 100 ton
Just had to wait until we were 18 years old.
So we did. And went back to sea in Alaska like everybody else in this business does up here.
You would think that a US Navy recruiter when he comes across three people whao are all Eagle Scouts and all have FCC marine licences and have enough sea time that they can sit for a 100 ton ticket just by getting old enough.
Get bent Massey.
My shoes have more sea time.
And fix your gig line ********.
Brass on brass.
 

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You show too much carnage; they stopped making M35a2s and CUCVs a long time ago and it hurts to see em all smashed up.

I remember when the CUCVs were all over craigslist for only a few thousand bucks. Just the parts and labor would cost you that if you had two junkyard axles geared and locked, and they came with a whole truck attached! I was a broke teenager back then so I never actually had the time, money or space for a 2nd car, but I always thought maybe someday...

Well those days have come and gone. You hardly see them for sale anymore, at least in non-specialized places, and they aren't so much the deal of the century that they used to be when you do find them. I used to be willing to overlook the lack of comfort features in exchange for a cheap diesel truck that came stock with most of the upgrades I wanted to do to it anyway, but now they aren't cheap so you might as well start with something with a back seat and A/C.

Or they've been engine swapped, painted, gutted and modified into something indistinguishable from any other civilian truck, just with a smog exempt title. :3811797817_8d685371
 

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I remember when the CUCVs were all over craigslist for only a few thousand bucks. Just the parts and labor would cost you that if you had two junkyard axles geared and locked, and they came with a whole truck attached! I was a broke teenager back then so I never actually had the time, money or space for a 2nd car, but I always thought maybe someday...

Well those days have come and gone. You hardly see them for sale anymore, at least in non-specialized places, and they aren't so much the deal of the century that they used to be when you do find them. I used to be willing to overlook the lack of comfort features in exchange for a cheap diesel truck that came stock with most of the upgrades I wanted to do to it anyway, but now they aren't cheap so you might as well start with something with a back seat and A/C.

Or they've been engine swapped, painted, gutted and modified into something indistinguishable from any other civilian truck, just with a smog exempt title. :3811797817_8d685371
There's two military surplus places about an hour away from me, one guy's yard is slap full of M1008s, M1009s, M35a2s, but he doesn't sell any of it because he wants ridiculous prices! $5500 for a roller M1009 with rotted out floors.

The other place deals more in supplies and weaponry; he gets trucks in occasionally but they usually move pretty fast.
Ever since the Alabama Army Truck episode of Dirt Everyday, I've wanted an M1008 so bad. I'll still get a hold of one some day, hopefully sooner rather than later
 

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I bought this 1986 M1009 a while back.
A fellow rang my doorbell after seeing some of my collection parked around the drive and figured I might be interested.
It wasn't too far away and he said he had a clear title for it so I followed him home to look at it. It had been sitting for a while and he had started to fix it up.
I put my jumper box on it after checking the fluids and it started well.
I backed it on the trailer and took it home. Transmission seemed to work ok also.
I hope to get it restored one day.
It cost me $900 bucks.
 

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I tried to get into the Officer cadet program with the Canadian Coast Guard in 1981. It was going to be a three year free ENG Tech training. I had all the good grades in the high school sciences but lacked grade 9 French, I took German instead. All Good. Cold water and wet boots would be brutal in the Artic.
Yep. Been Hypothermic a couple of times.
Right here in the Northwest.
The first time was just dumb.
Working on ww2 vintage 63 foot asr.
A flat bottom air/sea rescue boat.
Really wet deck boats when they are at speed.
It started feeling a little tender to me so I decided to go up on the boat deck and see if we were icing up.
Yep, we were icing. I walked back towards the aft end of the deck and skated right of it.
My choice was either go face first off of the boat deck and face plant in the cockpit at about 25 knots or go over the side.
I went over the side.
The thing that ****** me up is that I was wearing a navy issue wool pea coat with a crappy stearns float coat over it.
That pea coat turned into sponge and the stearns made it so I couldnt get out of the damn thing.
Water temp about 46 degrees or so.
The guy running the boat that day learned his trade running landing craft at Normandy.
He had a stern watch.
RIP Crazy Ed.
Needless to say, I survived.
It really sucked. I did not know if they had seen me go over and I did not know what in the **** to do.
At that speed the boat goes away from you pretty damn fast.
But you dont get to see it go away from you.
By the time you get your **** squared up enough to figure out what the **** just happened to you they are long gone.
Stern watch called man overboard and Crazy Ed turned around and came back at me at 25 friggen knots.
Fighting a navy wool pea coat while a stupid ass sears stearns float coat is trying to drown me and a guy namdd "crazy ed" is running towards me in a 63 foot ******* boat at 25 knots was kinda ****** up.
That was the first time I went in the salt with the last pack of smokes anybody had.
Only the first time.
You really have to try a cast iron pan fried and dried deisal stove saltwater Winston
They are xtra thick and chewy.
Im not sure if it was the salt or the Crisco but damn them smokes will rip your lungs out Jim
 

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Sluminum and magnesium doesn't fair to well in fires.
They use magnesium in those? In what parts?

I've seen several of the newer aluminum Fords all burnt up at the impound lots. Yeah, they tend to kinda disappear once the fire takes hold.

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