Mike,
Yes, I was aware of that one, a small photo of it appeared in 'Wheels and Tracks' some years ago as being in Victoria but this is the first colour photo I've seen of it, thanks for posting! Do you know who owns it - I would like to get in contact if possible?
ARN 139999 and its sister were disposed of to the ski chalets and I have a photo of both of them on the slopes, interestingly the ARN had been painted out but since both T24's had slightly different camo patterns (the early Weasels came standard from the Studebaker factory in three patterns) I could positively identify it.
Other Weasels were imported for the chalets in 1952-53 that appear to have all been M29C's. I have some photos on one of my websites showing these being used around Thredbo. They stripped the military parts; John Wilson and I investigated and we have been lucky enough to find some of them. For instance the rudders and front and rear flotation tank panels were removed so skis could be carried. I was told recently that there were some more that were imported in the 60s, to our knowledge only one of them survives and is owned by John.
As for the ANARE Weasels, a few very mangled M29C wrecks were brought back from Antarctica in the mid 1980s. They too eventually went to the scrapper but parts of them were used for the restored ANARE Weasel at the AAD in Hobart (it used to be in the foyer but I heard it is no longer on display(?)
(more photos at
http://web.aanet.com.au/malikoff/weasel/anare.html )
Hanno - ARN 139999 really is in
bad shape. Even the central bulkhead has been cut out
Curiously the parts I would need the most for it are the bogie spring packs, sprockets and idlers which i would need to import (again!) - I'm in the unusual position of actually having sufficient numbers of good 15" tracks for both the one I'm working on now as well as 139999, and enough other NOS 15" grousers for a third complete set. It's the 20" track that we're looking at rebuilding for the other two M29Cs. Not a trivial job as any Weasel owner would tell you
Steve.