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Yeah, I have a homemade top too. It looks like a very good fabricator started it and then when it was 90% done a chimpanzee with an angle grinder got a hold of it. Its expertly welded, all the sheet metal is done perfectly with a shrinker/stretcher, english wheel etc.
Then someone ground off...
Can't wait to see some pictures of your progress.
I got my first M-37 back in September. After several months of cutting and grinding away, I am finally at the point of being able to put new/restored parts back on. My truck is probably in as bad a shape as yours. Glad to see I'm not the only...
Haven't posted in a while... some progress:
I have been sticking to my plan and going up mostly on the weekends and working on the truck. For the greater part of the entire winter, the only tool I needed was a grinder. I cut off the heads of every bolt on the chassis, cut out a lot of scaly...
My son's grandfather was a Tanker and later a Full-bird Colonel with the Nuclear Missile schools. When he passed away I rescued his library before it ended up in a dumpster. I have a lot of tank books. I think this one has most of what you are looking for:
TM 9-7012 90mm Gun Full Tracked...
Update as of September 20
Just an update on the progress.
I got the entire cargo box apart and began wire wheeling off 5 layers of OD paint and 2 layers of smurf blue.
I picked up a sheet of 16 gage to begin making patch panels. Does anyone know if there are other gages of sheet metal on...
Good advice, thanks. I know just where you are coming from regarding the cosmetic things that give you that that "I can almost see it now" feeling.
I'm going to compartmentalize then. I'll aim specifically at getting the cargo box squared away 100% right now.
@hndrsonj: I have been on the...
Bill W, Thank you for that information!
I haven't done a full-on restoration before, but I do a lot of metal fabrication and deal with rusty broken old stuff a lot. This is rusty, broken, old and was just calling out to me.
I go upstate every weekend. My strategy is going to be to take apart...
Hello everybody, I am new here.
I picked up a M-37 from a truck graveyard recently. It was in service as a welding truck at an asphalt plant until about 10 years ago. Pretty fair amount of rust, but nothing that can't be fixed with a little ambition. Frame is solid, Body rust is not horrible...