G'day all,
John has pretty much covered the story of where we are up to. As to Jeff's comment about buying a lottery ticket the day we brought the red Weasel down to the National Studebaker Convention at Southport on the Gold Coast, what happened was we were going down the highway near Springwood doing 100 km/h when the hinges holding the large steel access panel on the front flotation tank let go and decided to fly off the top and end up on the roadway.
I can't believe how lucky there were no cars following or it could have been an extremely serious and potentially tragic situation, having a large steel panel come through a windscreen. Phew. Awfully scary that was. Jeff couldn't pull over with the trailer until there was a clear bit of shoulder, and I walked back along the highway looking for it. It was also incredibly lucky that Jeff just happened to look in his rear vision mirror at just the right moment to see it fly off.
OK, here is a picture that is an
extremely rare sight in Australia: three Weasels in close proximity. John's newly arrived M29C is in the foreground; behind it in the shed is the surviving wartime Australian Army T24 Weasel up on a rotisserie/hoist for further finishing work after John's marathon reconstruction; to the left is a very early-numbered T24 Weasel awaiting its turn. I will post on the other (Oz Weasel) thread as things happen on its rebuild. Like John and his two fully amphibious M29C Weasel projects, I too have acquired just about all the hard-to-find trinkets for my early T24 Weasels even including the early model narrow tracks.
Steve.