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Anybody want to take the lead on the "Sledding" idea? Somebody?
And in the meantime, the whole "do it your way" thing is VERY much an American signature, particularly in regard to WWII:
- The big sudden build-up after Pearl Harbor meant that most of the military then were citizen soldiers...
This could be good stuff, "Sledding in the Snow":
- Bound to be some stories.
- And it'll get the focus here back on the Jeep where it should be, too.
- Anybody want to start a thread? Somebody want to go for it?
Oh yeah; Old inner tubes ganged together behind that blue Ford Tractor. And then there was "skitching":
- go out on the streets before they got plowed, and wait at the stop signs
- then grab the bumper of the cars out driving in the snow (this goes way back when everybody had a set of chains...
My experience says the Big Box stores are almost useless when it comes to making matches like this (and the personnel there typically are completely clueless).
And the local Mom-and-Pop hardware stores where you have the best chance of finding the miscellaneous loose hardware for stuff like...
Thanks Al Harvey, because that's great advice, IN GENERAL, for anything searched online.
Because the world-wide-web (beyond what it seems) is a really curious place:
How about in the Mess Hall?
I mean, consider keeping it in the family here. It sounds like it might be interesting (and as a cousin of the Willys it is MV-related in a way), and if nobody follows it with any interest it can just die nice and peaceful (lots of tombstones in the thread yard).
Hey there's an idea for an new thread, 'Starting Small";
- Like what's the least amount of hardware ever used to start a Re-Build?
Kind of like recreating a Dinosaur from nothing but a scrap of DNA. What a trip!
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