CMPs - where are they now?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

Back in the 1970's and 1980's there were dozens and dozens of CMP's and carriers owned by dozens of people here in Canada. There are relatively few restored and running today. What happened to them all? I fear the worst.

I recall stories by Brian Gough about a friend called Mel. He used to buy complete CMPs for a couple of hundred dollars, needing putting back on the road and a repaint mostly. He stored them out in the open at his mother’s house.
I wonder if he still has them.

H.