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While looking at an auction for "Cletrac residue" I noticed that said residue was sitting on top of a pile of Sherman drive sprockets and transmissions/differentials and tracks. I also noted an idler wheel for a Stewart..... and some other "demiled" armor parts.
Are there armor part junkyards...
My neighbor picked this up thinking it was a generator. I have no idea what it is. Looks to be a cobbled together pile of parts from old Army Air Corps support equipment.
WWII Something or other pictures by mongosarcade - Photobucket
The bad: It is at the Mogadishu New Port.
I spotted it during Operation Restore Hope. I will have to look through my old pictures and see if I have some good ones of it (doubtful) but here are the Google Earth coordinates of it if anyone wants to hire some of the recently unemployed Somali...
I have an offer to buy an Engine AND Transmission pulled from a Deuce with 1500 Miles on it. Supposedly there are videos of it running before being pulled and it has a whistler on it.
So... as a GENERAL rule, what are things worth? Just ballpark numbers for the following items:
Parts motors...
My deuce usually runs about 15lbs at an idle and 25 while driving. It was hot yesterday (90 + degrees) and at one point while idling the oil pressure dropped to zero. The oil is full and was changed by the previous owner just before I bought it. The motor has about 43K miles on it. I have no...
I managed to convince the wife that a Deuce was just as useful as our conversion van. I picked this up from a private seller and drove it 200 miles back to St.Louis. That was a nerve racking experience considering I haven't driven one of these for about 20 years. It is not without its...