M3A1 AOP Scout Car Armour

[Big D]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the replies. What you have sent through is very interesting. I don't have many photos of the M3A1 AOP and I had yet to see one in the flesh that didn't have the rear bumper.

From that information and the photos you sent through it seems like some of these vehicles did not have the rear bumper. The vehicle in the photo you have attached certainly doesn't seem to have one.

Is it possible that the rear armour on the vehicle I have is not necessarily repro? Perhaps it was supposed to be like that with no attachments?

What is the easiest way to tell if it is armour plated?

Is there any chance of you emailing me the scanned file of the view of the back inside of the scout car please?

Cheers

Darryl

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Big D

Is there any chance of you emailing me the scanned file of the view of the back inside of the scout car please?

Cheers

Darryl

Yes just PM me your email address ..no worries MIKE . I will scan a large size for you

[colin jones]

Darryl, a grab a drill and see if you can do a small hole somewhere, as you will soon know if it's armour.
Colin.

[Mike K]

i took a few pics of John Mackies yellow beast up at Corowa ..will find em

[Big D]

Colin,

Yeah - I figured afterwards that this would be an easy way to check. Will give it a try.

Mike,

Thanks. Those other photos would be interesting. I will pm my email address.


Does anyone have the dimensions of the ammo box and battery box cover?

Cheers

Darryl

[Mike K]

these may help you ............

[Big D]

Thanks Mike.

[Big D]

Hi all,

As per my previous post I was wanting to get some dimensions for the various mounting holes for the skate rail, handles and footman loops for the back armour of my scout car. The armour on the back is reproduction and is therefore bare with no back bumper, handles or footman loops fitted.

A chap I know kindly did all the legwork for me and provided a sketch from his scout car of all the various dimensions required. This was a great help and I thought I was all set to go. However, we have just detected a problem; the dimensions are not quite right somewhere within the diagram.

The overall width of the back of my scout car is 77 7/16” to the outer edges of the back panel. The various measurements on the sketch, although they use some imperial measurements and some decimal only show a total of around 35 1/2” per side. As a result, somewhere within the dimensions there is about 3” ‘missing’ per side.

My problem is that I can’t get hold of the gentleman who provided the details and I need to have the correct dimensions sorted within the next week as I have arranged for all the work to be done then.

Hopefully he won’t mind but I have uploaded the sketch diagram he provided.

I am wondering if there are any scout car owners out there who would be prepared to cast their eye over the sketch and check the dimensions against their own scout car and let me know what they come up with?

I figure that the error will be fairly clear once a few measurements are checked.

Many thanks.

Darryl