CMP's in the US

mcook · #1 30-01-04, 20:12

Where would someone look to aquire a CMP? Are they found down here?

This hobby is getting out of control....

Keith Webb · #2 30-01-04, 21:19

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Originally posted by mcook
Where would someone look to aquire a CMP? Are they found down here?

This hobby is getting out of control....

Hey Michael,
Come to Australia, adopted home of the CMP!

mcook · #3 30-01-04, 22:12

If you're sponsering, I'm there

. These look like a blast to drive, and very unique.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #4 31-01-04, 04:02

At the risk or discourse between fellow Commonwealth nations, I should like to point out, for the record, it's not that we couldn't put together such a lineup if we tried. It's just that some might have to be pushed/dragged to obtain the required dressing.

Keith Webb · #5 31-01-04, 04:11

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Originally posted by Bruce Parker
At the risk or discourse between fellow Commonwealth nations, I should like to point out, for the record, it's not that we couldn't put together such a lineup if we tried. It's just that some might have to be pushed/dragged to obtain the required dressing.

Now this is a lineup!

But you've all seen the moving version of this, haven't you?
What, you haven't yet purchased your copy of "Year of the Blitz"?

Maybe it's time to get cracking and get one through the connections in this forum.

Find it here!

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #6 31-01-04, 04:36

...however this is nothing more than cruel provocation. I'll have you know there are many of us here who have actually seen one run. And on most of it's cylinders too!

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #7 31-01-04, 08:41

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there are many of us here who have actually seen one run

Hello Bruce

You mean you actually let The One out of its enclosure. As to its type, is it the five or seven cylinder version?

And Keefy, when you get over there and drive their CMP, don't wreck it otherwise they'll have to buy a new one.

Bob

Hanno Spoelstra · #8 31-01-04, 08:53

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Originally posted by mcook
Where would someone look to aquire a CMP? Are they found down here?

This hobby is getting out of control....

Michael,

As for seeing them in the US, the only place I can think of is this museum: http://www.wwiivictory.org/

A couple of years ago I exchanged e-mails with a guy in the US who found a 3-ton Ford GS truck, will see if I can dig up the details.

Your best bet would be to look for one in Canada. They are dirt cheap up there as the Canucks have plenty of them.

And no, your hobby is not getting out of control - you're finally getting real grip on it ...

Hanno

mcook · #9 31-01-04, 12:07

Are there any reputable military vehicle dealers in Canada one might contact?

And tell my wife it's not out of control. The M38A1 CDN3 is known as the "ugly stepson"...

J.P. Brescacin · #10 31-01-04, 15:05

Mike,

You' re welcome to come to Windsor which should be about a 3 hr. drive for you and see a few CMPs in person. If you can wait till May and come to our D-Day parade, there should be a good selection to see and ride in (hopefully).

J.P.

Phil Waterman · #11 31-01-04, 15:32

I've found several and have 3 though they are scarce. I think a lot of people down here in the states are scared of them thinking they will be hard to restore or hard to find parts for. But having played with CMPs for more than thirty years I would say they are actually easyier that some of the US stuff to restore. Couple of cautions, one you need to be able to fabricate simple metal parts, you have to be willing to rebuild mechanical parts instead of expecting to find whole replacement units. Take a look at my web site to get an idea of what goes into putting these things on the road.

As to acquiring or finding one I think you have already found the best CMP locator system if this group doesn't know where it is then it is going to blind luck of somebody spotting one out in a field and telling you about it. This is how I found my most recent project.

Cheers and good luck.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #12 31-01-04, 16:49

"You mean you actually let The One out of its enclosure. As to its type, is it the five or seven cylinder version?" you ask?

It's a five. No one here has ever figured out that brown plastic thing bolted to the front of the sevens with all the wires coming out of it.

Now stop it or I'll sic a beaver on you.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #13 01-02-04, 01:10

You may have lots of CMP's and be their adopted home, but the ones we retained, like everything else in Canada, are larger than life. I humbly submit as proof this picture of a Canadian Blitz crank shaft:

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #14 01-02-04, 01:14

We find these tyres give the necessary ground clearance to get through our typical snow.

mcook · #15 01-02-04, 01:56

Thanks all. And Phil?...it's YOUR website got me interested

I'll come in may for the parade. Knock on wood, the M38A1-CDN3 will be running by then. But that would make it a 4hr drive. Any troubles bringing a military vehicle across borders?

Bob Carriere · #16 01-02-04, 03:45

Pas de problem.....

...tell you are lost and coming back from Bosnia....

....oh..... make sure the the BIG fifty is not loaded... they get very nervous...

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #17 01-02-04, 10:00

Bruce

Excellent - LMAO - my mate Keefy would appreciate your super-impositions as he does excellent ones himself.

However I thought you had called a truce when you mentioned the beaver sicing/siccing, or however it is spelt.

Bob

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #18 01-02-04, 15:11

Those pictures are 100% legit! Super-imposition indeed!

Really, they are taken in the Iqaluit (ex-Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island) metal dump and are of my son beside the remains of the old town generator and the wreck of an old USAF cargo plane. Other pictures in the role show at least 5 CMP's that had been pushed, along with dozens of other vehicles, into a ravine at the end of the old 1942 runway. One is an 11 cab Ford 6x4 and all are a mystery as the air base constructed there was supposed to be entirely US equipped. Here is a 15 cwt chev free for the taking, except for the rather well preserved 9.00x16 chevron tyre which somehow followed me home.

Bob Carriere · #19 01-02-04, 17:20

..... too bad you could not remove the roof hatch..... and other unseen goodies.....

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #20 01-02-04, 20:17

..one or two bits did, actually.

Keith Webb · #21 01-02-04, 20:38

Don't tease us... show us the other pictures!
Please? Pretty please?

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #22 03-02-04, 02:43

With due respect to our American thread-starting friend, here is a yellow over blue USAF M38A1:

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #23 03-02-04, 02:46

Built 7-16-42:

mcook · #24 03-02-04, 02:47

OOOOO, that was painful...

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #25 03-02-04, 02:48

But the chassis is down the hill.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #26 03-02-04, 02:54

The nose of the C-15A is resting on a steel hulled boat made by the Globe American Corp. of Kokomo Indiana dated 8-15-44.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #27 03-02-04, 02:56

Never found the rest.

Keith Webb · #28 03-02-04, 03:13

Fantastic images, thanks for sharing them.
Do you have one of the F60H?

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #29 03-02-04, 04:17

It's squashed under a petrol bowser. Y'know, identifying trucks in these photo's is like looking for pictures in the ink blots they show you before asking if you had a happy childhood.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #30 03-02-04, 04:23

In the top picture, there's a small grey rectangle on the centre axle, just below the frame cross member. On closer inspection, it looks like this. I wonder how this relates to American neutrality pre-December 7, 1941.