Danger Ranger
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Bump for more progress and pics. This is a pretty sweet restoration. Keep it up.
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I little background on me for those who want to know. My avatar is a picture of me when I was less than 1 year old in my dad's M38. So you could say I was born in to military vehicles. I have restored more jeeps, mules, M37's and M880's than I count or remember. I started out by picking up bolts when my dad was restoring his jeeps and I moved on from there. I loved to build armor models when I was a kid and have a deep love for armor. I retired from the Army National Guard as a CW2 with 21 years service. I was in aviation for all of those years. I started out as a aircraft armament technician. I became a aircraft maintenance officer when Ohio got rid of the Cobra's and got Chinook's. I knew that is was better to work in a warm clean hanger than chip frozen mud off of tracks so that is why I went into aviation and not armor in the Army. Other than getting a good electrical background from my Army MOS, I'm pretty much self taught as a mechanic, welder and body repair man. I did work as a structural engineer for a company that built equipment for the aggregate processing industry, until I got laid off a couple of years ago. With my engineering background I'm able to design my own support equipment for my restorations, like carts and stands to hold the heavy parts like the final drives and turrets.This is a beautiful build by the way. How did you start restoring tanks? Were you a mechanic in the military?
That looks like a T-90.Mr. Schwarzenneger apparently owns an m4 (and of course the photo in the Post is NOT a Sherman - is that an Abrams?- hey, you can always believe it if it's in the newspaper right?!)
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