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23-01-10, 04:15
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Restored Iltis Cable Layer Unit
I just finished a frame off restoration on my iltis cable layer as I tackled this project last February thinking I would just get it running as the motor was melted from getting way too hot. I purchased it as a salvage iltis from the local base as it was suppose to have made its way to the auction until the motor blew up. As per usual once I started it just snowballed into a total rebuild and took time away from my carrier project. At least now I can focus on getting my MK1 carrier under way in its restoration and will keep you posted in the carrier forum.
Dave        
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23-01-10, 15:28
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88047 - Is that the original CFR number? With your permission I would like to include your photos on my online Iltis registry. www.ramtank.ca
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Those who live by the sword will be shot by those of us who have progressed. - M38A1, 67-07800, ex LETE
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23-01-10, 17:14
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Iltis Cable Layer
Certainly a first class restoration job! The vehicle looks as good as it did when it was delivered new to DND, you have set a very hight standard with that restoration. I also like that you have taken the time and money to preserve one of the lastest types of DND vehicles.
Here is one that I photographed in CFB Kingsotn in the mid-1990s. ED 
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23-01-10, 17:26
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Iltis 88042
Interstingly, I just had a look through my database and I see that I photographed the same vehicle nearly 10 years earlier in Wainwright, Alberta during an RV Exercise. Although the image posted earlier shows the Iltis still with the 1 Canadian Signals Regiment, the vehicle has had a total repaint, which leads me to believe that it may have been deployed on a UN mission, perhaps to Rwanda.
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#6
24-01-10, 03:26
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Thanks I put a lot of hours in restoring it. I think it is a unique variant of the iltis and working in the communication trade the last 15 years added a little something as well. I like the pictures you posted as there are very few pictures around of any kind of vehicles that were used in Canadian service and I like collecting them as when restoring them it gives a person some in site as to what they actually looked like and helps when restoring a vehicle back to original. If you have any other pictures of the cable layer or ambulance I would be interested for future restorations as I also have the Ambulance the regular model and also the one with tailgate as when they were selling them off I got one of each of the 4 styles that were available. I wonder how many of the cable laying varriant they made as all the ones so far that I have found have the CFR#s in the 88026-88066, so maybe there might have been 100?
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#7
24-01-10, 06:15
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Nice job, but the vehicle tech in me says you should install some reflector decals onto those rear bumperettes or you risk getting rear ended. Those older SMP taillamps are not SAE/DOT approved (although the newest ones are) and their reflectiveness is not the best.
The half cab of the line Iltis was a bonus in MB and SK, where the smaller resulting cab meant you were warm in the winter.
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24-01-10, 16:19
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http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cGBcS4A...BER%201986.pdf
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Richard Law
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24-01-10, 02:58
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