Nathans F15A Resto

[Tony Smith]

Nice start!

The bonding straps aren't cloth wrapped, they're braided copper. They do reduce radio static and the vehicle will usually have an "S" painted on it to indicate "supressed". It will not necessarily mean it was a radio equipped vehicle, but used around radio-equipped vehicles or other installations.

Do you know anything of the history of the vehicle? I only ask because you are in SA and the Blue paint is similar to another vehicle with significant SA History in THIS THREAD, the Bonython Lake Eyre Exploration Party (BLEEP) jeep.

[Mike Cecil]

Hanno,

Can both Nathan's threads be linked, please? That way we get to see all his F15A images and the comments about same, in the one place.

Mike

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Hanno,

Can both Nathan's threads be linked, please? That way we get to see all his F15A images and the comments about same, in the one place.

Mike

Done, threads merged.

Hanno

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Hanno.

Mike

[Nathan O'Malley]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Nice start!

The bonding straps aren't cloth wrapped, they're braided copper. They do reduce radio static and the vehicle will usually have an "S" painted on it to indicate "supressed". It will not necessarily mean it was a radio equipped vehicle, but used around radio-equipped vehicles or other installations.

Do you know anything of the history of the vehicle? I only ask because you are in SA and the Blue paint is similar to another vehicle with significant SA History in THIS THREAD, the Bonython Lake Eyre Exploration Party (BLEEP) jeep.

Ah well there you go, the straps seem to be every where connecting everything.

Unfortunately no, we know very little about this truck so far, its data plates are missing and it has been a bit of a ring around to find who the truck may have belonged to but my mother remembers it sitting in the local mechanics yard at Karoonda well back in to the 80's

it's had a life however the truck has been painted several colours in its time