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So that means you can finally answer the question, How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? glad to see you are back up and running!!

Yes it is a Wild T-2Theodolite, all the kids in my office just look at it and ask where are the LED screen, how do you use it, man its heavy

Wow a T-2 with one of the original distomats, I still have a T-2 on my desk in the office. I used one for the boundary survey on the Everglades back in 1981.

Here is my dad working in the pits for Briggs Cunningham also in the Sebring race was a young guy from Texas Carroll Shelby I have always loved the Austin Healey and have a few of the kits in my stash

in my younger days I was lucky to fly for a seaplane company that took anglers to the Bahamas, one season we had a Beaver on Edo floats so I was able to get some hours flying it. a great plane and one of the only planes that I know of that you can add engine oil in flight as there is a fill in the co-pilots floor. I have the Canadian Mist kit and thankfully since I was also a mechanic for the company I have all my service and parts manuals. I hope to be able to put the interior in mine.

Very true, while i usually did not take mine off when I worked under the hood of my series IIA I did pay very close attention to where the hood support was.

Does anyone make a hood (bonnet) for the Revell Land Rover that has the spare tire mount? I have no idea why they put it on the roof, first the safari roof is only to provide shade thus acting like insulation and second how would you get it down.

I see that Jim Botaitis at JBot decals has made the Caterpillar decals for the D8 Bulldozer

as far as I have found out the Australian one did have 4 wheel steering. they accomplished this by using a front axle and hooking it up to the front steering. one article i have read said this truck cost around 80,000 in the1960s.

Those are Johnson Elevation Meters and are used for transferring elevations long distances. They were hooked up to a onboard computer and would record changes in elevations as you drove. Canada, Australia as well as the United States Geological Survey used them. They are also equipped with an air system to monitor and adjust tire pressure. the last one was used in the early 70s. from the USGS web site A Johnson Elevation Meter mounted in a four-wheel-drive GMC Suburban 1960 model K1001 truck. The slope angle of the road was measured by a sensitive electronic pendulum, and the distance was measured by the fifth wheel. An onboard computer solved for the difference in elevation ten times per second. In areas of moderate relief with an adequate net of relatively smooth roads, these instruments were capable of establishing elevations within 2 feet while traveling at speeds approaching 30 miles per hour. suburban.pdf

Thank you

I am looking to see if anyone has any information on the front wheel drive for the 1966 4 X 4 Suburban. I am trying to build a USGS survey truck from that era using the Revell kit.

Thank you everybody. I never pick the easy projects if I can find a parts drawing or a frame drawing showing me the front drive set up I should be able to pull it off. I will ask over in the truck forum.

Just wondering if anyone has done the NAPCO Conversion on any trucks, I am thinking of using the Revell 66 Suburban and making it a USGS survey truck.

I have the jaws of life that I got from American Industrial Truck Models