M3A1 White Scout Car Problems

[lynx42]

Not all outings go according to plan. Geoff (son) asked if he could borrow the 1942 M3A1 White Scout Car to attend the Rosedale RSL ANZAC Day Parade.

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Rosedale is where he lives. His step daughter, Emily, is the Rosedale Primary School, School Captain and was also taking a major part in todays service. A few years ago the Rosedale RSL looked like folding and through the efforts of a few have now got it back up and going again. I was only too happy to let him take the Scout Car and Geoff decided to attend the Paynesville ANZAC Day service first, to give Bairnsdale a miss, and to take it to the afternoon service at Rosedale.

WELL, about 25km out of Bairnsdale, a fan blade broke off and destroyed the radiator, fan and bracket. I returned home from the Bairnsdale ANZAC Day service and headed off with the 1977 Leyland to recover the Scout Car.


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The recovery "A" frame is an Ex.British Army "A" frame with a professionally made clamp which clamps around the roller and the "A" frame and hooked onto the pintal hook made the job much easier.

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It could have been worse. It will be a big job to pull it all apart and to get the radiator repaired/replaced along with the fan and bracket etc.