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28-12-20, 18:14
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I also visited the yard about the same time as you. There was lots of talking but I also got the impression that they weren’t really interested in selling anything. I was looking for Ford Prefect parts at the time. Most of the CMPs were bought by Dirk Leegwater and shipped to Holland. There were multiple posts on this forum about the trucks over the years.
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28-12-20, 18:49
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The last time I was in their yard was about 1988. At that time I knew I didn't have any spare cash for a restoration project so just asked to be allowed a "look-see" and they were accommodating. Perhaps my honesty of saying up front that I wasn't a buyer, just a looker, prompted sympathy. I don't recall whether I had a camera with me that day. If so, it would have been black and white - my budget didn't stretch to colour then. One advantage to digital photography....
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29-12-20, 02:39
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The last photo in Post 1, with the car tucked in beside the CMP, reminds me of a couple of similar sites here in Manitoba years ago. When I visited them, I was always fixated on the CMP’s and never gave the cars a second glance. I knew many of these cars were 40’s vintage. End of story. I often wonder now, how many of them might actually have been ex military.
David
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29-12-20, 09:52
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Imagine that! Having a choice between 11 or 12 Cab Fords and Chevs!
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29-12-20, 12:37
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David,
Thanks for sharing these pictures. You sent me two of them a few years ago.....one of them showing my C8... it's the one with the tree growing through it and the 20inch wheel leaning on the fender. The lettering on the door was still much clearer at that time...."Floyd Break, Pefferlaw RR2" Even though it's not wartime history, I still enjoy to find these scraps of my truck's history. Alex
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29-12-20, 16:33
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Hi Alex
Would you add a photo of the C8 now? Just to encourage us all!
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29-12-20, 21:58
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1977 or 78. Even back then I was fixated on Otters and Fox.
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03-01-21, 12:34
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Well....in all honesty....at the time in Elliots yard it looked more like a truck than it does now....as it's still a work in progress!
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