M38A1 CDN3 106mm recoilless rifle Garage find

[army brat]

I know it looks like a horder garage but I just picked it up after being kept remote for 3 years

[army brat]

Well more work on the jeep, my friend and I got ambitious and decided to get it going, after almost 30 years of sitting it fired up, just needed the points gapped.
Lots of oil smoke ( I'd been putting oil in the cylinders and turning it over a few times a year) my fuel tank repair even worked. I was thrilled! We even drove it around, it was so neat to see my jeep actually moving under its own power.
Lots of work to get it to this point but very rewarding.image.jpg

[army brat]

Back in the garage after a long day.
I think we must have put 10 miles on it running around at my buddy's farm.
No leaks and all working.

[army brat]

It's been a good couple days, I have the fenders hung, and inners painted, I shot the front frame rails, board filed and blocked the passenger side and straightened out the back.
I'm going to shoot the inside of the tub tomorrow and paint some of the bits jerry can holder, spare holder footman loops etc.

I'll post more tomorrow

[army brat]

Well here it is, at its 1st car show.

Still need the correct tires but it got a ton of attention.

I will post more pics soon

[Robin Craig]

The 106 recoiless kit was, I am led to understand a pre-existing piece of engineering that was first carried out by our dear American cousins.

If that basic fact is true then I would ask the question in what way was our set up different from the American version?

I note a hard radio mount in one of Ed Storey's pictures on top of the rear right fender.

I was speaking to an older and quite accurate former soldier who recalls his unit having these jeeps in his unit (I think PPCLI) but they had a man pack which resided in front of the passenger and the grab rail was spaced off with some kind of extenders and the manpack dropped into that slot. He and I both wondered what stopped it from dropping out of the bottom.

As we are both scale model makers at times, him more these days than me, we happened to be stood in a hobby shop and were looking at the AFV Club 1/35 kit and were considering building it as a Canadian vehicle.

I would welcome comments and debate. I have posted a link to some images of a completed kit.

I look forward to replies.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling.../t/130830.aspx

[maple_leaf_eh]

Joining the conversation mid-stream.

There was a split windshield on Kijiji in Quebec last week. Do you have one?

The dash panel is a flat piece that bolts to the body in half a dozen places. It isn't very substantial, but I expect it could hold up some extra weight. If the crews were smart enough to put spacers behind the "chicken bar", I expect they would have put a piece of sheet metal to keep the radio from sliding through, or even a fitting for a length of canvas web strapping.