[Bob Carriere]

Congrat Rob you have a real keeper.

I have driven that truck a few time ...... it out performed anything else int he 4x4 club.

On the Distributor caps...... I have seen early mid 50s hemi engines in USA Compressor and Generators and also on stationary engines for military pump/generators using 283 GM blocks..... they all had special waterproof carbs, plugs and dizzy........ all where located in a junk yard in Butler Penn. .....strange coincidence as Butler is the birth place of the early Jeeps. I was married to an American at the time and working for PPG and every trip was and excuse for loading up the back seat of the Camero........ they had stacks of NOS Cargo boxes for the Jeep Military pickups, cord wood stacks of NOS large Axles for the trending Monster trucks of the period........ plywood cased stacked to a dangerous heights as the lower levels were collapsing... for fording kits of M37 and Jeep Gladiators.... it was easy picking the bags of nuts and bolts from the sides of the bottom cases and quart containers of OD green putty for gumming up the waterproofing of batteries, cables, etc.......
....complete aircraft slide in air to air refueling system on skids including the flying tail booms, rubber tanks, pump hose reels,...... and a fleet of forward control Air Force jeeps all without engines...... the engines.... 3 cylinders Listers removed and sold to local Mennonites to power barn milking equipment and sawmills......

The store sign was an actual real space capsule used scarred and battered..... with blown hatch.

Use to belong to the "Independent Mountain Men of Pennsylvania" a black powder thing at the time.....amazing what you can bring back in a hard top camping trailer.

The good old days....... the yard is gone and so is the American wife!!!!!!! .......not sure which I missed the most or cost the most..