What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

1950 - 1952, M38, questions, discussions, regarding anything related to the M38.
Post Reply
User avatar
dpcd67
G-General
G-General
Posts: 11813
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:41 pm
Location: Iowa

What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by dpcd67 » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:15 pm

Ok, driving down I74 on the way to take my disassembled M38 for sand blasting and priming. I had set the steering wheel on in order to guide the rolling frame onto the trailer. About half way there, I looked back and noticed; NO steering wheel; SOB, I forgot to remove it, and it is now somewhere still rolling down the interstate. And I told myself to remember and remove it before taking off.
First mistake I ever made on a restoration. Today.
Now I have to buy a new one.
U. S. Army 28 years.
Armor Branch


Fortyeight2A
G-Lieutenant General
G-Lieutenant General
Posts: 4991
Joined: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:40 pm
Location: Colorado

Re: What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by Fortyeight2A » Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:21 pm

Sounds like something I would do. Sorry to hear it.
Is it true real Jeeps have flat fenders?
Alone cannot you it resist!

User avatar
dpcd67
G-General
G-General
Posts: 11813
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:41 pm
Location: Iowa

Re: What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by dpcd67 » Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:54 pm

I never do stuff like this; I was down that way on I74 yesterday and I was looking in the ditch for it; didn't see it. Could be worse.
U. S. Army 28 years.
Armor Branch

Warren Duchesne
G-Colonel
G-Colonel
Posts: 1769
Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2002 4:47 pm
Location: Monroe , La

Re: What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by Warren Duchesne » Sat Mar 18, 2017 4:53 pm

Happens to everyone sometime or another , hard to remember everything . Warren

Wolfman
G-Lieutenant General
G-Lieutenant General
Posts: 6878
Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:25 am
Location: Tipton,In.

Re: What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by Wolfman » Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:42 am

Bummer !!
Have you looked around the shop ?
I can be working on something and the phone will ring.
I will leave what I am working on with a tool in my hand and some place between point "A" and the phone I will mindlessly lay the tool down.
When I get back to the project, No Tool!! ^%#@^^(%* !!!
I can spend several minutes trying to find it. :evil:
And half the time, the phone call was B.S.
Mike Wolford
CJ-2A
VEP GPW
Comm./Inst. SEL
AOPA ( 50 yrs)
EAA ( 49 yrs)
4th Inf. Div. - 5th Inf. Div. - 2nd Armor Div. - CIB

User avatar
dpcd67
G-General
G-General
Posts: 11813
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:41 pm
Location: Iowa

Re: What Happened to me Today; (Bad)

Post by dpcd67 » Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:53 pm

No, I definitely put it on the jeep so we could steer it onto the trailer, and it was just setting on the splines. I didn't remember about it until half way there; and I looked back; it was gone; the wind blew it off. It is in the ditch between here and Galesburg. This summer, a ditch mower will chew it up.
U. S. Army 28 years.
Armor Branch


Post Reply

Return to “M38 Technical Knowledge Base”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 30 guests