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Hi, there are two styles of turn signal indicators for deuces (and others of course) around: the smaller old ones, and the newer ones with the large orange flasher. I see that the old style was used in the fifties (maybe even earlier) und up to the early sixties, and the new style later on...

M215, Dave, superb fotos of the trucks! That's exactly the look that I want for my deuce. Right now I apply the OD-24087 paint. As for the markings - the 8GP family of trucks gets larger and larger, soon to be joined by my deuce :-) Regards, Mark

here's a picture of my deuce in a mudhole at the Koblenz show last year. I didn't own it then, and I wasn't driving it, and I must say that the mess this created will prevent me forever from doing this. Expecially the mud at Koblenz, it seems to me that once it has dried it is like concrete...

found another one...

When sanding the cab-doors in order to spray them with new paint, I uncovered under many layers of paint a large tactical sign. It looks like an "A" without the horizontal bar and is quite large, actually its almost as high as the door itself. I've seen this before, but could not figure out...

Another parked pic! I'm restoring the cab right now.

Thanks, Marti, seems like I had some misconceptions there. I thought that the air-lock transfers also only really engage when the rear wheels start to slip. This is partly because a friend whitnessed the rear wheels of a deuce slip with engaged air-lock, and it took about half a wheel-turn...

The applier of the stars did a lousy job, he was as well uninformed as a bad painter, and apparently did not have that great informal resource of Steel Soldiers, and a delicatly masked passenger window. I shall correct the stars in the process of painting the deuce, of course. The lights are...

If you do it, do it with style ! :D Mark

I understand that the sprag t-case has to be "prepared" for reverse into forward operation by shifting rev into the first gear and vice versa, hence the linkage between the transmission and the transfer-case. But I see that with the airshift-type there is no mechanical linkage between the...

Oh boy, thats like the cumulation of 5 years of christmas gifts...

Ted, thanks for the info! Your WC56 is a real beauty, great looking! Regards, Mark

Hi guys, a friend of mine is trying to figure out if the two types of door-latches on the command-car are early / later style or maybe produced by different suppliers or whatever. See http://www.command-car.com/technik/techniklatches.html Does, by any chance, someone know this? Nice...

*sigh* for 2k I'd take it right away.... unfortunatly I'm from "Old Germany"...

Ahh thanks for the notice, and let us know of your progress! Would love to see a few restoration pics of the DUKW. Seems like the seller will be in the need of spending a beer next time I'm around 8) Cheers, Mark

What's that orange bottle on the drivers side firewall for?

About the Radium: if its ra-226 one also could wait about 1602 years while half of it decays away ;-) . Don't want to speculate whats left of the deuce then. I wouldn't worry about it too much if the intruments are intact and sealed, because Radium and its relatively "fast" decay products...

I'm up to the same task and here's what I'm doing when I have to stop rust even on stressed surface like bare cabin floors: clean surface with a wire brush, then apply several coats (minimum 3) of Owatrol Oil ( http://www.owatrol.com/products/OwatrolOil2.pdf ), then the usual procedure of...

Hey, this is a impressive project! I like the little window facing down on the drivers side :-) Its a little like the chin bubble window in the Huey :-) Cheers! Mark

I'm 6'8" and feel very comfortable on the spring seat. Never sat on a box seat, so I can't compare. I also had hardly problems in the Hotchkiss/Willys Jeep or WC-54, but they had much less room.