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Offline Waffle

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« on: December 12, 2006, 06:12:45 PM »
Had the privilege of going out to take some photos of some ww2 vehicles today. Evidently, the guy that does the restorations has been in  the Central Texas area for over 20 years... I never knew about it.

Anyway he's got some very nicely restored vehicles, as well as tons of other stuff: ww2 posters, uniforms, weapons, technical manuals...

Some of the things in his collection:

Sherman M4 tank
M5 Stuart light tank
M8 light armored car
Lvta4
M18 hellcat tank destroyer
Higgins boat
M3 with 76mm
M3 Lee tank? can't remember - was hull / top only
m24 chaffee tank
M1a1 Wrecker
13 ton High speed tractor
Ford GPA
ww1 liberty truck
ww1 Renault Ft tank
several Jeeps
amphibious jeep
International weapons carrier truck

They're having an open house / re-enactment the weekend of March 17th. 2007.
Figured some of you guys would like this stuff, and maybe help get the word out about the museum. I know that the regional press hasn't touched on them, so anyway can help. They're still in the raising funds stage, I believe.

http://www.museumoftheamericangi.org/


you can see some pic of the restorations here as well.
http://www.mullinsjeepparts.com/
under the BMJP Collections and the Restorations link.

LMAO! - I just noticed they had a flame thrower demonstration...I'm so there....

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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2006, 06:53:20 PM »
I love that quote about the flame throwers invention...


"At one point someone said, "You know I would like to set that person on fire, but he is all the way over there." and thus the flamethrower was born."  ;)
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2006, 07:57:27 PM »




sweeeeeeeeeeet!
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2006, 08:40:10 PM »
YEA!!!got marshmellows :t I will be there
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2006, 11:56:19 PM »


can anyone ID that for me? looks to be smaller than what I think it is...
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2006, 12:01:15 AM »
It looks like a swiss built hetzer anti-tank gun.
The real thing was very small.  One of my ex-coworkers
did alot of reenacting and some rich guy had one.

They also had a pair of czech built Hanomag 251 halftracks.
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2006, 12:06:30 AM »
Thats what I was thinking it was.. but it looked really small...

Evidently, that museum had some GE pieces at the last open house. I'm already marking my calender for this years...if they got a flame thrower working as well as shooting some howitzer rounds off... I'd love to see that. :D

Here's a pic from some of the ones I took today.

The M8 is front - behind it is the Sherman - to the left of the sherman is the 13 ton tractor. To the immediate left is a Howitzer. To the immediate right is the M5 light tank, and behind that is the M24 Chaffee, I believe.

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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2006, 12:30:13 AM »
Hey Waffle, that dude has had a sign up for a few years now. I guess with all the road construction going on it finaly got more traffic closer to it so folks notice it.

I kinda wanted to see some of the stuff myself but at the time all I could see from the road was the rusted stuff. Nice to see he actualy has restored stuff. I may have to go check him out myself now.

Hmmmm now that I think about it, I wonder if I can get one of the HD cams here at work and go out there and shoot some B-roll stuff providing that dude would let me shoot some of his stuff.

Was he a pretty cool fella?
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2006, 12:34:25 AM »
He seemed pretty cool. I'd at least offer him a donation to the museum for his time. I'm going to try to get out there for the open house. That looks pretty cool. I'd like to get some video of that, as well as some audio recordings.

It's funny - with the Bush Library and Texas A&M, you'd figure there'd be more support and coverage of the fact that they're trying to build a museum. Like I said before - newspaper / regional tv won't cover him...more interested in stuff like "chili-fest"..lmao.

I wish I knew some one who had a p51/p47/p38 ..... would be fun as hell to have them "strafe" that open house when they're doing the re-enactment...lol :D
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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2006, 11:07:55 AM »
Where is College Station Texas?
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2006, 01:30:54 PM »
May be the guys from cavanaugh flight museum could lend a hand. I dont know anyone well enough to call.

cavanaugh flight museum :aok
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2006, 01:42:33 PM »
so who's going?  its only a couple of hours from my house.  Maybe we can plan something and meet up?
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« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2006, 02:02:19 PM »
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
Like I said before - newspaper / regional tv won't cover him...more interested in stuff like "chili-fest"..lmao


That doesnt exactly apply to PBS.

We produce a show called Veterans of the Valley. I'm wondering if the producers know this place exists. It may be possible to do a show from out there using the vehicles as back drops and at the same time promoing the place as well. You'd be suprised how many people call in when the show doesnt air or time slot changes.

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« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2006, 01:59:13 PM »
That'd be cool.

It'd also be cool to do a documentary type piece on the restoration of vehicles...

Hell, who knows - if you do a good hour / half hour program, you could turn it into a series, and get in on PBS, or hist/mil channel.
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