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Hi all, some of you may know me from decades ago. I think I got the MV bug in high school, I went to the same school Bill Gregg (no relation) sent his son to. Our history teacher was big on military history and took us to Bill's farm for a field trip, I can still vividly remember many of the vehicles from over 30 years ago. Years later I bought an M38A1 which led me to meet Brian Asbury, who was kind enough to let me tag along on many occasions and get a good feel for this unique hobby. I also met Stew Robertson, and was interested to learn he had a big part in the collection I had seen in high school.
Through Brian I also met Tony Sanden, who let me help out on some of his vehicles and also employed me at his factory for a couple of years. Somewhere along the way the A1 was sold and I later picked up an M38 with the aluminum hard top, mostly complete but also a complete basket case. Family life intervened and it is still in storage, along with a nice M100. There was an M1008 CUCV (again thanks to Brian) that served as my daily driver for a few years, possibly the only one to ever have the arctic kit and 2 baby seats installed at the same time. As my time and resources are slowly swinging back into my possession I look forward to resurrecting these projects and getting back out to the shows. I find it interesting to think that had I not bought that first Jeep the events above would not have happened and my life would have taken a completely different path.

welcome back Russ!

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Hi Russ

So glad you can join us to share our enjoyment of Canadian Military Vehicles.

Strange that you should happen to mention Stew Roberson, as I happened to get an e-mail this morning that also mentioned him. In fact they were identifying him for a photo on my web page about Bill Gregg's collection.

Cheers Phil

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Hi Russ, Good to hear from you and that there is now some time to rejuvenate your hobby and dust off the M38. ... Brian

Funny, that's what led me here! I was talking about MV's to a friend and looked up Bill Gregg to see if I could find more info and ended up on your site. Right near the top of your CMP84 page is a picture with a guy named 'Bill's mechanic' that I knew was Stew. I followed your link here and saw enough familiar names that I decided he didn't need identifying.

Thanks Brian, I'm way overdue to stop by for a visit, I'm hoping to make the Oshawa show this year. It's also the 100th anniversary at Borden so they will have some good events, including the airshow.
http://www.100yearsoffreedom.ca/en/home.html

Thanks Frank.

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Good to see you here Russ. You have a fine pedigree in the subject! :thup2:

Hey Russ
I thought you dropped off the side of earth
I have a great shot of you sitting on a Lynx in Dieppe
It would be good to catch up
:cheers:
Stew

Hey Stew, good to hear from you, it's about 2 months shy of 20 years, I've got a kid going to university in the fall. I remember that day on the Lynx, that was one Bill kept wasn't it? I'll look you up ahead of time when I'm headed down that way, same place and #?

Nice to meet you Russ ! Some of the Sanden collection came to our group in Niagara !

Good to hear, I was out of the area by the time Tony passed, although I did get to see him a few months before. I always hoped his collection went to good homes.