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CMP Bits
Almost new 9.00x16 Dominion Royal chevron tire. Recovered from a 15cwt Chev water bowser in the Canadian arctic where it was in a vehicle dump with half a dozen WC Dodges stacked on top of it. It's almost new and I would prefer to sell to someone who wants the right tire for their spare...certainly not for running on. Asking $750.
CMP Chev dash jewel. Original but missing the threaded stud. Asking $75. Offers, trades, bidding wars all accepted. |
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Nice find, but the shipping on that tyre would kill me!
I don't suppose there were any other water bowser parts there? Owen.
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Actually there was. I stripped what I could and those parts made their way to someone who was restoring a water truck. Here's the tire as found. The front right tire was just as good but hopelessly pinned and crushed. This is Iqaluit at the west end of the original WW2 era runway (Crystal II) at what was then known as Frobisher Bay. I was surprised to find CMP's there. Most of the wrecks (nothing gets shipped out) were American CCKW's and Dodges with jeeps ranging from yellow MB's to air force blue M38A1's and this made sense as the base was American supplied and operated for the most part. In with the C15A water truck was a C60L and an 11 cab Ford 6x4.
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Thanks, Owen.
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Bruce,
So no-one, not even your wife, questioned the purpose of you dragging an old tyre all the way from Iqaluit to Ontario? I tried to look it up on google maps but it could not work the distance or mode of transportation to get there. Another source says it is 1702 km. as the crow flies The above is a bit tongue in cheek of course - I am sincere when I say: thanks for saving this piece of memorabilia. Hanno
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A shame.....
with all the open space out there they couldn't simply line the vehicles up side by side neatly when they were done with them in hopes of one day somebody would want them to restore? No,they had to crush them and pile them up. What a waste!
Derk
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The Dew Line site at Frobisher Bay reputedly dumped all their vehicles in a nearby lake but I wasn't about to go swimming to find out. Snowing in June....sheesh. |
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Did you try replacing the couch with a folding military cot, Bruce?
David |
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Who hsn't been sent out to the couch once in a while? Little do they know it's kind of a treat. Mine figured it out, so she goes to the couch.....still a treat as I can really stretch out.
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dewline
Not that I want to get too far off topic, but check out this dewline / trucking video, very interesting!
theoldmotor.com/?p=154747 Last edited by Hanno Spoelstra; 13-11-18 at 08:48. Reason: edited link |
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Bruce just don’t let her in on the naming of your son. That one takes the cake
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Glad to hear you set your priorities right. A couch is a couch and can be replaced, but a 75 year old relic cannot! Hanno
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