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eBay... I paid $60+ shipping for two identical ones, new old stock. Before I painted mine, it looked exactly like the one in the link you posted above. Mine are the 8" 4-hammer ones, and they came with mounting hardware. Jon

Thanks guys! :beer: Mechanical back-up bell. :cool: I always liked hearing those as a kid and was disgusted the first time I heard a truck go "beep-beep-beep" instead of "ding-ding-ding"... When I had the soft top on the cab, I couldn't see through the milky plastic window, and was worried I...

We won't be there this year.... They said they have a large number of WWII vehicles attending this year so they didn't need any Vietnam-era "filler". Oh well! It sure was fun last year. Even better, you'll have to come with us to Miramar if you're still in CA. They were a used set from Dave...

Ha! Yeah.... She's pretty cool, she accepts my eccentricities. Rolls her eyes once in a while but knows that she can't change me, and therefore doesn't bother trying. We've been dating almost a year already, she's a vast improvement over all others, who either barely tolerated or openly...

Last weekend Jim and I drove our deuces to the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, CA which was hosting the American Truck Historical Society's 26th Annual Antique Truck Show.... I won "Best Heavy Military Truck"! There were about 7 deuces there, I wish I had a picture of them all lined...

It's been over 4 years since I first painted my deuce, and it was getting to be time for a freshening up! The wooden troop seats drove me nuts, I have had a terrible time keeping paint on them.... Even sanding down to clean bare wood and using Kilz Bare Wood Primer, the primer still peels off...

This was the first trip out after everything was finished... Tomorrow I'll take some pictures of it's current state.

Yes, good catch.... I work for Uncle Warren. "Buffet Never Spends Foolishly" We're his personal train layout. Conductor since 12/99 and promoted engineer since 3/05. I get called out of San Bernardino to run to L.A., San Diego, Barstow, or Needles. You a railroader too? ....There's a bunch...

Wow, I can't believe I never updated this thread! In my mind, it was done and current... Man, I think I'm losing it.... .... And I'm already gearing up to paint it again! Gillespie paint fades so fast, it's really quite disappointing. I'll be going with something different for paint this...

New tires are finally here! Alan at Berg Tire did not disappoint. After nearly a year, this project is finally coming to an end... I should be rolling by the middle of next week! More pics when I get the tires on. Jon

Thanks Guys! I've got a 2hp Ingersoll Rand compressor, I think it's a 40-gallon tank but the HVLP spray guns don't really use a lot of air (high volume but only at 10psi) so almost any compressor setup will be adequate. My HVLP spray gun is from Harbor Freight, at the time it was the nicest...

Bumper paint archeology. I wanted to stencil my truck with it's original unit markings if they could be determined. I figured I could, because while the truck's paint was not too thick in most areas, the front and rear bumpers were VERY thick, with about 10 or more layers of paint. I spent a...

Here's some more... We're almost caught up! The last week of March and the first week of April was my vacation, and I spent the entire time sanding, prepping and priming the truck for it's paint job. I used a LOT of sandpaper! To get a good surface for painting, I had to take much of the...

I almost forgot! There was another reason the restoration didn't start until the end of March... I was waiting for the title conflict on my V-18A/MTQ (which I won last December) to be resolved, because my deuce and towbar was the only way I could get it home. As soon as the V-18 was in my...

Here's some more pics that will bring me from summer, 2006 up to the start of the restoration back to semi-gloss OD with stars, which started at the end of March, 2007. Throughout 2006 I collected thousands of dollars worth of NOS and new parts, pretty much everything I would need for the...

Hey Tom, Yes, the truck you got sure did look good! I never saw it in person, by the time I went to look at the truck I bought, yours was already gone... But I remember reading the ad which was still on Mark's website at that time. Neat that we're all Steel Soldiers members, too... Jon

Thanks David! I thought this would be an interesting thread, because I have hundreds of pics, from the day I got the truck to present including every stage of restoration in between. It's quite a transformation! Mark still had the goat when I was there, I got to check it out... "Want it?" he...

Here's a few more, then I gotts to go to work! The first pic is after I hosed it off the day it came home. What a difference it made, just removing all the debris, dirt, and rat turds! The second pic is later that same day, when I got the canvas cover installed. I removed the troop seats...

The day I looked at the truck, I knew I was going to buy it... I had cash in pocket. My girlfriend and a few of my other friends were with me... My friends wanted to check out the truck, and they were a little surprised (and amused) that I wanted to actually buy one of these things. I gave...

Hi Group, Here's a thread I meant to start right after I got my deuce, but I never did... Too much work to sort through and resize all the pics. But as it's restoration nears completion, here it is. Better late than never! I'll use this thread to post all pics relating to my deuce in the...