HUP project started at last

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Jon.
You project sounds like something that Bruce Parker and our Founder,Geof Winnington-Ball a.k.a. "JIF",for all you new members that never had the opportunity of knowing or meeting our founder..
Jif and Bruce grew up together as I understand it...and when they were lads,would love playing army....
Jif would always be the officer and Bruce the lowly grunt...and they did some great restoration projects and recovery projects together in the early years..long before MLU or the internet was even a gleam in someones eye..\
With Bruce rolling around in the mud and the grease,and Jif giving him instructions and direction,not a speck of dirt anywhere on him, while sucking on a long neck,they were life long friends..so Bruce is a good mentor for you..
Jif passed away long before his time should have been but he had built this MLU website and left a legacy that we all use daily.

It is only a suggestion but maybe we should all write a piece about our time with Jif and our memories of him..send them all to one person to edit and put together and put it on this forum in a special place so that newbies are required to read it before being signed up.. so the new members could have some historical background on MLU>.
Just a thought but I remember JIF in many ways..
Any comments..??

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex Blair

It is only a suggestion but maybe we should all write a piece about our time with Jif and our memories of him..send them all to one person to edit and put together and put it on this forum in a special place so that newbies are required to read it before being signed up.. so the new members could have some historical background on MLU>.
Just a thought but I remember JIF in many ways..
Any comments..??

Alex,

Great idea! Please start posting your memories in the thread Rest In Peace, Geoff Winnington-Ball. Once there is sufficient material, I can edit the web page found at http://www.mapleleafup.net/about.html

Thanks in advance,
Hanno

[Jonathan Moore]

Hello Alex and thanks for the reply.

I personally would write down your memories and publish them on the forum. Once someone dies these memories will be lost forever. Any information no matter how trivial it may seem at the time, will be of value to others in the future.

Are there any books that you would recommend on CMPs in general?

Jonathan

[Jonathan Moore]

Hi Hanno,

As i said in my first post "the camera does lie". The cab is a fabrication in the loosest sense of the word. The top section of the rear panel looks like it comes from a 1980's Daihatsu 4x4, the bottom section is just sheet steel and the two have been welded and filled together, very badly. The roof section, well... i could go on but theres little point. It just looks better from the outside than it does on the in or, in real life. So i havnt got a cab as such, just the front lower section and a lot of work. The easy way, if thats the right phrase, would be a C8AX but if i am going to do the project then i might as well reconstruct it to its original specification.

And to tell the truth i am looking forward to the challenge.

Jonathan

[Markwin Serlui]

Congratulations on your buy Jonathan!
Hope you have sime GOOD times with it