Bump! 

Anyone? 

Hey KurtA any thought on who the manufacturer was?

Great looking collection!   Frank

thanks!

Thank you very much for your help!! It makes a bit of sense now :)  I thought it may be an unofficial USMC Recon insignia because of the skull, but it is an unusual set of para wings and I keep it in my collection! Thank you very much again for your great help!!!  Deeply appreciated!!  Yannis      

This is an excellent show in a great facility. I will be there set up with 2 tables. Very nice folks who put it on. 

The last few weeks I've been plodding on with the jeep with nothing major to report; mainly cleaning up, stripping and priming area's and welding up lots of holes, small patches etc.   I have sorted out on of my pet peeves though; a visible weld line at the rear of the floor just in front of the rear seat between the shock towers. The rear of the floor had to be replaced 30 years ago but they used a lap joint (one sheet slightly overlapping the other, giving a visible weld) instead of a butt joint where the edges of the metal lay next to each other and the seam is welded shut meaning it can be ground flush and becomes invisible. The rear floor is a single piece originally so a visible weld joint is incorrect. From the top the weld is gone, but at the bottom I didn't grind it flush so the joint retains its full strength. This the result (unfortunately I don't seem to have a photo of the visible seam):       Sometime during her life she got some accident damage to the left rear corner of the body, nothing major but it did require some hammering and some body filler to take the worst dents out. I don't mind if you can see the body is 83 years old but this damage was just a bit too much to leave as is. Previously it was nice and smooth under the thick coat of filler; too thick to my taste. Here it is during one of the stages of applying filler, letting it dry, sand everything smooth, apply some more filler to a few low spots and repeat. The area is now primed and coming weekend I'll check if it is ready for the first coat of OD or some more work is required.       I'm also continuing preparing the small parts in between the bigger jobs; last Saturday I cleaned and lubed the original locks of the rear lockers. They function just fine and are ready to go back in. These work on the standard H700 key that literally anyone can buy from parts vendors...       No photo's but the dashboard is stripped of all paint now and is ready for a coat of primer. Slowly but surely we approach the point where we can clean the bottom of the floor, both sides of the firewall and the dashboard for the first coat of OD paint. 🥰   When the underside of the floor is done we'll start with the rolling frame, that requires some work to the front horns. It will need some replacement metal and welding, and 4 new rivets for the upper bumper gussets. Unfortunately while these can be found in the correct size here, I would have to buy at least 100. So we got 4 bolts with heads a bit bigger than the correct diameter of the head of the original rivets (16.7mm). My friend then turned them to half domes on his lathe; this was quite a time-consuming job but I think they came out amazing!         They will replace the carriage bolts I have now, which are both too big in diameter and too flat. The threaded sections will be cut off, the rest trimmed to length and then I'll weld the from the underside as it will be an optical repair only.

Yes, F-105 era circa1966.   Randy