2009 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Stephen

Takes so little to sort out some problems.

...and I should have known better..... statute of limitation applies.....

In the 70s I offered to clean up a friends driveway while he was away in FLorida for Xmas..... using an old M43 Dodge ambulance..... it would work for a while then the brakes would lock up..... with 12 inches of wet rainy snow to clean and not wanting it to turn to cement whenit froze I finished the job by repeatedly crawling underneath and releasing teh pressure from teh bleeder valves and adding more fluid.

Got the job done....soaked to the skin in icy water......and spent New Years in bed with total deafness, ear infection and sore throat......

The owner laughed at me for not re adjusting the master cylinder rod... a new Mc had just been installed before he left for vacation..... you would think I owul dhave remembered....DUH !!!!!!

There are NO lock nuts on the CMP MC but there is a lock nut near the clevis which was loose and was promptly tighened. A new return spring may be in order as I am using a 1940 original.....

Thanks again for your insight..... wish you were closer!!!

Bob C.

[RHClarke]

A man's fancy turns to ... HUPs!

The day started off somewhat gloomy, but it quickly heated up at the barn. This was the first weekend where the mosquitoes showed up in force. Grant and I figure that we knocked off at least two air wings each of the nasty little pests.

Grant worked over a set of 20 inch rims, Bob fulfiled his honeydo list and I played with the HUP in preparation for its roll out scheduled for today. A quick check of of the cooling system and some electrical trouble shooting, later, the HUP fired up. I still need to connect the vacuum lines and do some general lubrication and tightening, but the engine sounded OK. I have some excessive rattling in the head, but everything else seems to work alright.

Bob heard the HUP's purring and joined us for the event. Unfortunately, I forgot my camcorder, but Bob captured part of the event on his digital camera. The video can be seen here:

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=HPIM8909.flv

"Whoo-hoo" sums it up for me. Grant and I then headed out to lunch at Mike's Place in Hammond. After lunch, I recruited Bob to do some gorilla welding. He was kind enough to weld my POW cans onto the arse of the HUP. I must say, the old girl is starting to look like her factory photos. Thanks to Bob for the welding and to Grant for the assist in getting the HUP on the road.


The rest of the afternoon was spent fiddling with the 20 inch rims, some general puttering around and chatting about upcoming road trips. Bob and Grant are hitting the road tomorrow for a secret rendezvous somewhere north of the city...all will be revealed.

It was a great HUP-Day at the barn. After leaving some grafitti on the barn doors, I headed back to the city for dinner and a boys night in for hockey.

[cmperry4]

Nice to see the HUP progress. I have dimensions and a basic drawing for the rear oil can racks and plan to have my brother brake the bits up for me in his shop. Remind me to bug you about specs and dimensions for the underneath tool box - Something else far down the road, but still planning to do on the thing.
Hoping to make some progress after next week, during a couple weeks of vacation, but 600 feet of log rail fence have to come first, and girlfriend is also taking vacation time, so some activities more to her liking will also have to come into the picture.

[RHClarke]

The past three weeks have seen the Rotters on the road collecting bits of iron oxide. First, the show at Oshawa, where we met a chap selling a used CMP rim for only $100.00...Next, a trip to Barrie for the annual pilgrimage of the faithful (collectors, that is) to the gigantic automotive flea market, and then a trip to the deep bush of eastern Ontario to feed the bugs and to recover a HUP body.

Oddly, on every trip we ran into Brian Gough, who has taken on the job as our Fifth Columnist and G2 for the Rotters.

When will this madness end? Only the wife knows for sure... More later!

[Bob Carriere]

Well time for some catch up pictures of our latest efforts.

The Evil Rotters have been busy this season.

We all know that thanks to Brian Gough Rob has become the Ottawa Hup master........Brian remains the HUP Grand BooBa......

Moving 3 Hups plus a HUP body from the bug infested Ontario Forest has blwon away a few weekends..... then I went back to Oshawa to pick up one of Mel's cab 12 for potential parts source.

The worst partr is we still have at least 4 more trips for a frame, a trailer and possibly two more HUP parts vehicles.......

Time for some pcitures....

First of Hup NO 1....... dated August 1942..... and its a cab 13...Hum !!!

Poor guys could not afford a winch and had to muscle it on by come-a-long..
This was on the Easter weekend.... two Ford trucks/trailer bringing to Chev Hups......

ROB...note... I can't seem to find my pictures of the Prototype..lost in the crash maybe..... will need to check my files.

The we did HUP no#3 in June while visiting the Barrie Antique car flea market...the rear wheels refused to turn and the HUP crabbed sideways while loading..... nothing a little jacking could not take care of..... carefully pushing the HUP off the jack in its place.....

Will do a seperate one for the cab 12 and the body.....

Boob

[Bob Carriere]

Back to the chicken farm......

Now mid June to bring back the cab 12...... safely at home in the driveway....

One of the original run flat tire had a little cut in the side wall..... I inserted my Ford door key a full 1 1/2 half inch into the cut.... tire was flat yet it held up the front end of the cab as if inflated.....

Now the HUP body was another storey and another weekend.... deep intot he woods of cottage country...... Biran and Mel pooled there collective memory to figger out where it was last seen.....hidding behind a cloud of black flies..... there she was in all her glory....not sure if they were bullet holes or fly bites....

skidding her on without wheels was a challenge but we did it..... a bit of jacking....some lumber..... some heaving.... and she got one nicely....

Brian could not resist looking under the front seat for loose change... probably looking for a "1943 thumback nickel" made of copper....

Drive home was uneventful except for some OPP chickee who stopped us to check our seat belts and see if we had been drinking.... she probably assumed we had to be drunk to drag that thing home......

Although we have said it before .....it bears repeating...... none of this would have happened without the help, assistance and guidance from Brian.....

....... at least that's what we told our wifes......


BooBee
PS...... and thank God my 'Puter is up and running...again !!!!

[Phil Waterman]

Glad to see so much CMP heritage being save from the scrap mongers.

Cheers and Well Done

Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

...Moving 3 Hups plus a HUP body from the bug infested Ontario Forest has blown away a few weekends...First of Hup NO 1... dated August 1942..... and its a cab 13...Hum !!!Boob

Why is it that so many who were lucky enough to get a HUP after the war had to cut off the rear sheet metal??? Why didn't they just get a "real" CMP instead. It boggles this HUP lover's mind...Fortunately, there are some HUP/HUW bodies still to be had (albeit in various stages of decay). I mean to have all within reach...(cue nefarious sounding music).

Thanks for the pix, Bob. A big shout out goes to Brian Gough for the art of the deal, Bob Carriere and Grant Bowker for transport and to my wife who puts up with this obsession (she doesn't seem to mind - in fact, she still is out shopping...).

[cliff]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Why is it that so many who were lucky enough to get a HUP after the war had to cut off the rear sheet metal??? .

Because trucks were more expensive to buy and these 'Vans' were cheaper and easy to chop. Same thing happed here with artillery tractors and signals vans in particular.