If
I have a fault it's the fact that I have too many interests and too many
hobbies! Many of my friends are more single minded in regards to hobbies
and stick with their chosen field of pursuit for decades and become "advanced
collectors" or "experts". I tend to bounce back and forth
between my various hobbies. Among other things, my interests include restoring
old military vehicles, collecting W.W.I & W.W.II militaria, and collecting
old glass insulators. All of these require time, effort and money! I thought
I'd take the opportunity here to make known some of the things that I'm
looking for just in case someone out there has any of them.
THE
FOLLOWING PARTS ARE WANTED FOR OUR WC 52 RESTORATION PROJECT:
Hood
assembly in good condition FOUND!
Front
seat parts in good condition FOUND!
Troop
seat parts
Original
skid strips for bed floor
Original
screws for floor panels and transmission cover FOUND!
Bed
front panel and tailgate in very good to excellent condition
THE
FOLLOWING PARTS ARE WANTED FOR MY
WC 12 1/2 TON PICKUP:
Parts
for folding "Lazy Back" troop seats.
I'm
interested in buying original W.W.I and W.W.II American and Axis war relics
directly from veterans! Helmets, uniforms, medals, badges, photographs,
daggers etc., anything really, as long as they are original items. I prefer
to buy these things from veterans because I like getting the oral history
related to each piece and because these things are highly reproduced and
it's risky buying them from militaria dealers. If you are a veteran and
have any of these things for sale please contact me.
I
bet you're wondering what's the connection between glass insulators
and military trucks. Well, there is none really. It's just something
I got into when I was in high school. One day P. G .& E . was doing
some work on the utility pole behind our house and after they had gone
I found a glass insulator which they had left behind at the base of
the pole. It had survived being dropped from the top of the pole without
a scratch! I didn't think much of the thing at the time and set it aside
on the top rail of the fence around our yard. Months later a friend
of mine showed me a book that he was reading which was on the subject
of collecting glass insulators. He had found a couple of colorful insulators
while hiking through the nearby hills. We realized that there were more
than one type of these things and that some of them were made in vivid
colors. There is actually an organized group of collectors that puts
on insulator shows where they get together to buy, sell and trade these
interesting industrial artifacts. The usual response that I receive
when people learn that I collect insulators is " I used to shoot
them off of the poles when I was kid!". This creates a certain
amount of angst when I wonder what rare examples were destroyed in the
process! If you are at all curious about this subject click the button
to go to a great web site........
