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Jan 13, 2016 16:51:35 GMT 1
Post by fordflathead on Jan 13, 2016 16:51:35 GMT 1
From which car? May be civilian, but looks to have German early war grey paint. Attachments:
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Post by fordflathead on Jan 13, 2016 16:48:30 GMT 1
Anyone who knows what this belongs to? A tractor or stationary engine, or some military vehicle? Attachments:
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Post by fordflathead on Aug 6, 2015 19:51:36 GMT 1
Firewall identification: Top: 1944-on French Ford F198T (1935 style cab). Middle: 1941-45 wartime German, Dutch & Belgian style V3000. Bottom: 1946-on Köln civilian.
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Post by fordflathead on Jul 12, 2015 19:25:04 GMT 1
The example from the UK I did not know about, and it looks horrifying and absurd. Did any of the ammunition still contain explosives? Well, if so, disarm those, but why destroying harmless steel chunks? I can not believe they destroyed the whole collection? I assume it was "just" the ammunition part of it, or what? Common sense seems to have disappeared in some official circles. As society has become more and more regulated in recent years, the words "weapon" and "gun" now makes politicians, journalists and police officials flip backwards in their chairs when someone says them. It is absurd to spend resources on harassing peaceful citizen preserving the nations heritage, instead of focusing on the real threat to society from extremist groups. What harm did the 78 year old man in Kiel pose to the community? Why could not the tank and other stuff stay in his garage at least until the case had been settled in court? Couldn't they made a peaceful agreement that after his time the tank would be transferred to an official museum? Instead they harass him and destroys his life work in his last years. Where is common sense here? This is a big shame. And why does not other official persons devoted to preserving heritage, like museum directors, historicans and cultural managers, step forward and defend the man? Are they just glad to get rid of a competitor? Even the mayor of the city seems to have turned his fellow citizen down, even though the city council apparently gave him permission to keep the tank in the first place. Yes, many people have a desire to protrude power over others. Yes, many people have lack of knowledge of what is dangerous or not. Yes, some people are envy into their hearts. And as WWII showed well in occupied Europe, some people have a desire and gets a good feeling of giving in other fellow countrymen and good citizen to the police. Some should be ashamed in these cases.
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Post by fordflathead on Jul 9, 2015 17:27:44 GMT 1
Take a look at this ad. Has society and the police totally flipped? This is something some of us has been questioning for years when it will happen, and now it is reality. This is a well known and presumably harmless collector who with great effort at personal expenses have done a fine job of preserving unique historical items for future generations to see. Chance is this tank had been gone forever if he did not rescue it from a scrapyard in the 70s. Who is next in line? When will they come searching my home, stamp me into the mud, handcuff me, throw me in jail and destroy my collection of "war material"? Hope this gentleman has a very good lawyer who will restore justice and secure the owner of the tank a solid compensation of money from authorities (the taxpayer has to bleed) for damage to tank and property, and humiliation. As usual the press do what they can to ruin the victims life by speculating and fabricating fairytales. www.3d-madonnari.com/the-pensioner-confiscated-tank/
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Post by fordflathead on Jul 4, 2015 8:42:49 GMT 1
So far all the pictorial "evidence" put on the table has turned out to be something else. The official Ford history gives no proof the F198T saw Wehrmacht service. No genuine data plate has survived on any F198T that gives a production date prior to August 1944. The parts book refered to off course gives an indication that something was going on or being planned between the Germans and the Poissy factory, but does not proove anything materialized into F198Ts being delivered to the Wehrmacht.
Probably tens of thousand Wehrmacht soldiers served in Paris during the war, hundreds of thousands in the rest of France. Hundreds of thousands Allied soldiers fought or transited through France in 1944. Many of these men had personal cameras with them and took a lot of snapshots in the streets of peaceful Paris, of everyday military life throughout France, in battle, and after battle was over. So did civilian French people. Photos by the tens of thousands. Isn`t it strange that no known photos shows a single F198T in the distance of a street scene, in a German military column, at a battle scene, or in a post battle collecting yard of enemy vehicles? None?
All of us who are interested in old wehicles appreciate a classic truck like the F198T being preserved and restored, and we admire good work being done. The F198T is well worth to preserve. It is no problem fitting it out as a Wehrmacht vehicle. Not at all. The problem starts when owners claim it to be something it is not, and fool unaware buyers to pay big money for fake merchandise. Today I may be the dissapointed victim, tomorrow you may be the looser. Is this how we want it to be?
Fordflathead
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Post by fordflathead on Jun 2, 2015 16:31:19 GMT 1
The pictured vehicle from the Luftwaffe unit: Captured 1935 style British barrage balloon winch truck! Multiply bolt rims, not 5-bolt, flap style hood, not alligator. Apparantly called Fordson E917T. Another picture of same truck. 20 trucks a day? Off course: 3,2t F01/11 and 5t F917/997 cabovers. The pictured truck being delivered in August 1944 is hard to tell what model. A F198T, a V3000 or something else? By the way, Paris / Poissy was liberated 24/25th August, but off course, it could be proof production of the F198 was underway before liberation. Tooling for the V3000 cab was not available until late `45 as Ford Antwerpen only used GM cabs, and Ford of Holland & Germany were still on Wehrmacht control. The F198T in France with NOTEK mounting prooves nothing. Its left fender may have been smashed at some point, and replaced by a fender from a wartime wreck, which I assume were plentifull at the time. Or the fender may have been factory installed from leftover stocks of wartime production of parts for Antwerp production and Wehrmacht spares. But now we can find a possible proof: Can we check the mentioned F198T in France for what the ID-plate says? Please do so! It should show the year of manufacture at least, if not the month. Let us pray it is not missing or replaced by something else, as seems to be the case of most surviving F198Ts.
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Post by fordflathead on May 13, 2015 18:26:42 GMT 1
Hello folks! I have been away from the forum for some time, and I now see some new arguments and evidences concerning the F198T has been posted here. Very good! Ok, I will put my hands into the hornets nest once more, but not for a long preach, -just a few comments: The pictures posted on April 14, 21 & May 5 2014 all shows Ford chassis/cowls with coachbuilt cabs, which were quite common in Europe at the time, particular for vehicles destined for civilian use. Just look at the open door on the April 21 picture: Square window framing, no F198T or V3000! The illustration posted on June 23, 2014, to me clearly looks like an Antwerp built B298T with GM (Oldsmobile) cab. Not an F198T. It is no surprise you find parts on F198Ts that has correct wartime part numbers and shape. Remember the French plants were producing and supplying parts for V3000 production in Germany, Belgium and Holland up to the fall of `44, and that the French produced F01/F11 cabover has mostly identical chassis and automotive components as the V3000. Parts, left over stocks from pre-October `44 production and continous post-liberation production were all identical and used in the assembly of the new F198T. Rubber pedal pads became available after WWII had ended. The F198T cab was based on the prewar `35 US style cab which is much different from V3000 cabs. As the French did not produce V3000 cabs during the war, they quickly created the F198T cab by reactivating some of the `35 toolings, stamping out firewalls and doors, and making a new wider cabshell and simplified dashboard to create what you see. At least some cabs are simply the `35 cab split in the middle and a metal strip welded in between the two halfs to create the wide cab. Otherwise I refer to my earlier postings. I have no answers or comments to the publications and documentations shown lately here on this thread, but indeed very interesting. I am eagerly waiting for the final proof of Wehrmacht service: The picture, the ID tag!
Keep up! Fordflathead
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Post by fordflathead on Jan 29, 2014 15:36:36 GMT 1
Hello, and thanks for pictures! Sorry I am late to respond. Yes, the cab is most probaly correct wartime production. The pressed door profile ends on the cab corner on every Köln made cab between 1939-49 as far as I know. The cowl and firewall has been cut away and the roof split so the cab could be widened to fit the Steyr front end. A split windshield has been installed. The dashboard is probably Steyr. The cab looks restoreable, and the wedge welded into the roof can be carefully cut away so the cab can be clamped together to correct with and the roof welded together. You will have to find another cowl and firewall, but I think American / Australian 1940-41 models, and possibly 38-39 models has the same sheet metal in this area of the cab. Some reproduction sheet metal are made by Howell`s Sheetmetal in Texas. For front-end parts like grille, hood and civilian type fenders, I am pretty sure American made 1940-41 models are so close in design and shape that these parts are interchangeable with the German made parts.
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Post by fordflathead on Dec 29, 2013 19:51:39 GMT 1
Hello Jason! Interesting letter! We are a very few guys in Norway, and not many in Europe as a whole who try to preserve examples of the Ford V3000. Ex Wehrmacht V3000 trucks were a relative common sight as wrecks around Norway up through the `70s, but today most are gone, and the few wrecks that still exist are mostly rotted beyond any hope of rescue. Several of the restored WWII-styled "V3000" you can see on the web is in fact based on postwar German G198T or French F198T or American 1940-41 models. Me and a couple of other guys here in Norway are trying to rebuild Ford V3000s from mostly original pieces collected from all over the country, but we are facing sorry condition of the parts found all the time, and in fact are searching for the very same parts as you are. For my part I am not willing to let anything go, even not if I have 2 or 3 spare, until I see my project finnished, as I may need the extra parts for swapping material. If you can post me some photos of your cab I may be able to identify its orign and answer some of your questions, and I am also able to provide measurements of cargo body and late front fenders.
Best Regards Fordflathead
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Post by fordflathead on Feb 2, 2013 19:19:52 GMT 1
Excuse my lack of knowledge, but for what wehicle are we talking about? And what gear? The main transmission? Transfer box? Differetial?
Fordflathead
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Post by fordflathead on Dec 25, 2012 22:02:26 GMT 1
Merry Christmas from me too! Attachments:
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Post by fordflathead on Nov 9, 2012 19:38:51 GMT 1
Hi! My guess: Citröen 23R truck!
Fordflathead
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Post by fordflathead on May 29, 2012 17:45:48 GMT 1
Very nice work, very nice! Impressive! This is the level of craftmanship I admire, and which everyone should aim for. To get the skill, you need to have the will. 3 key words: -practice, practice, practice. Good to know that such clever pepole are devoted to this hobby. Keep up the good work! This is motivation for the rest of us.
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VW rims
Nov 20, 2011 18:35:45 GMT 1
Post by fordflathead on Nov 20, 2011 18:35:45 GMT 1
3 early VW rims with riveted center hub for sale or trade. Various condition. Probably fits Kübel and Schwim. Also a canopy framework probably for VW Kübel, in sorry condition. Fordflathead Attachments:
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