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The paint that I used was a semi gloss as I find it easier to wash off as I drive them lots and find that with the flat paint the dirt gets right into it.
They are a great little MV that is fun to drive. They even have a lever operated rear differential locker. Here are a couple of pictures of one that I restored and also traded for the restored M135 that I got about 4 weeks ago.
These are Bombardier iltis. When Canada was looking to replace there old fleet of M38a1s and M151a2s the German iltis was there choice but had to have that Canadian content thing which cost the tax payers almost double of what we could have bought them for direct from Germany. Canada got the...
I guess it is like anything I caught the olive drab bug. I picked up around 40 of the iltis for salvage and will be able to make about 10 runners out of the bunch. As for the dodge truck deck, it is set up with a hydraulic winch in the back with 1200 feet of rope as we used it for erecting...
I thought I would post a few pictures of my iltis. These were just surplus in the last year marking the end of the soft top small jeep like vehicle in Canadian military service.