Need to know......

[Bob Carriere]

Thanks for confirming that I was not having another pipe dream...

Let talk about it some more on the weekend..... we may have to drop in on the Science and Tech gusy to see where it might be...

Just to make things worst... in the same period when I was scrounging parts for the M37..... early 70s.... in Gatineau was a large junk yard... the outside perimeter was line with old Ottawa street cars used to store parts.... they had stacks of complete engine for CCKW and/or 2 1/2.... plywood cases where rotting away.... engines were complete from fan to bellhousing and carb to gen....... it was risky tro climb as they were staked 3 or 4 high and the bottom ones were rotten..... heck I still have one of the waterproof carb and dist we liberated...... maybe we can dig it up on the week end....

How about cases of Mosquitoe 12 cyl. engines in North Gowers not far from Bakers general store..... seemed no one wanted them in the early 70s Aluminum price was not that high...... I remember removing neat little pink plastic bottles of silica gel crystals that were screwed in place of the the sprakplugs....nasty boys we were!!!!

It was in one of those early Sunday morning recce that we discovered the Churchill tank now sitting in the Museum. Before I die I must write the correct story of how it was found and moved the old Annex on Sussex drive in December 1972.... the year my daughter was born..... it was featured as a fullpage article in the now defunct Ottawa journal.... I still have a copy of that paper.... ha the good old days..

Bob