Where to find CMPs?

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Hi Don

Sure a lot of traffic on this issue...... just a couple of observations on what you most recently wrote..... ...

You mentioned that your area of expertise was computers and not mechanics/body work..... well the thruth be know most of us are frustrated wanna be mechanics/welders/bodymen.......

... do not restore a CMP to sell for a profit...!!!!

..... you cannot restore a CMP with out have a couple of vehicles as a parts source.... or just as a model to look at when you can't remember how the parts fits...... the three Mousequeteers at the Hammond barn have in excess of 24 parts trucks to draw from.....

Get yourself some CMPs.... and go for it...... but..... you have to keep us posted of your progress or failures....... I know if no other places where such a wealth of information is so readily available.

Bob C

I just wanted to expand on Bobs points a little and to disagree with one point.

You most certainly must be craze to restore a CMP but as most who have gotten into this mania realize almost nobody restores just one. In its advance stage CMP mania requires you to restore the second and even the third trucks. Bob mentions that it is important to have a parts sources ie. the proverbial parts trucks what we have to let Bob in on is those aren't parts trucks they are potential restoration projects.

One of the nice things about CMPs is because they were designed to be built with the simplest available parts and parts manufactures so much of the trucks are reproducible.

Cheers Phil