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As a War Pig, they carried the spare tires for the patrol vehicles

I went down to the museum today and finished the cover and set the replica M2 into the mount, just to see what it looked like








Of course, those tubes could be rockets for the drag strip

You're going to need a lot more jerry cans to fill those racks.

Sooo, you don't think 40 Scepter jerry cans will be enough?
Guess I'll need to suppliment them with my Euro cans

Forget the cans.
I would have Andre fab up a custom hot tub.
You would have room for that, plus a BBQ, astro turf putting green and some lawn furniture.
Never mind the kitchen trailer, this is a party wagon!

Obviously you didn't look too carefully at the pics. There was 4" of water in the front of the bed, which prompt me to tell Danny that I didn't want to see him floating in an innertube , drinking Magaritas.

I found out months ago that that the only place the bed leaks water is around the tailgate, and I could easily seal that if I wanted.

....You would have room for that, plus a BBQ, astro turf putting green and some lawn furniture.
Never mind the kitchen trailer, this is a party wagon!

You're a little late to the game , we discussed that some time ago, plus I already have all that
I'm still designing my "folding" RV conversion, and have a tent trailer I can cannibalize

If you ever move out of the PRC you could live in a state that would allow a real M2 to be mounted.

The first kitted pics of the FDT

I really like that!!!!!!
You did a great job on it!!!!

Thank you. What is ironic is that we kept forgeting to put kit out , and left kit behind because of room!... now, I'm going to sleep the rest of the weekend.

Oh, the windshield folding and the mirrors being quickly removable worked out great.

Nice!!!!
Love the passenger seat 'toy'
Looks sweet all kitted out

The director of the museum called me yesterday morning, after getting call from a guy that served in Iraq and had seen SF patrols leaving base of 20 HMMWVs and there would be 3 War Pigs among them. He found it hard to believe the military had release one and he wanted to to know how the museum got hold of one ! ? It seems the guy didn't believe it had been made from pictures and information from different sources.

I don't know if he had been to the event or shown pics, but that was a heck of a compliment to me.

You have put lots of love and labor into the machine as you seem to do with all of your projects. Compliments are much deserved.

Getting ready for the 4th, thought I'd update the FDT's kit changes...
While I had one person say the pics from the first outing didn't do the truck justice ( I felt differently). I can say these pics don't do it justice! Even without the weapon stations in place, I was impressed by it's stance.

Did you find any source for the pre-bent tubing or have you decided against adding any more weight?

Hi Andre
I really haven't looked. Alan has a friend that builds roll cages for race cars, but hasn't gotten back to me yet. I have the design in my head, and is really quite simple, unfortunately, it requires some "floating" of the ring while supports are made to fit. But when complete, several different concepts will mesh together, IF the details are adhered to.


And for the rest of the followers of this thread, pics of the FDT at the Sierra Madre parade yesterday