Recent content by groundpound

different benches too! :lol:

i absolutely ruined a d-1 by trying to do this. it shrunk to half of its size. call me a dummy if you must , but i wouldnt reccomend doing this to anyone.

your sympathy overwhelms me. :geek:

A WHILE BACK I POSTED ABOUT AN OLD d-1 THAT I HAD over oiled. i wanted to get some of the oil out. well after much debating and pondering, i figured that the jacket wasnt really wearable in the first place so i would try to soak some of the oil out of it with sunlight and hot water in the...

frankenstein.

i have several B-3 jackets that are all originals. none of them have any indication of name tags or unit badges ever being sewn on to them. is there any significance to this or were the jackets with tags on them generally owned by officers only? were jackets just randomely handed out on mission...

thanks for the tips. i think i really messed this one up!! i thought i was going slow on it but i guess i wasnt slow enough. i'll post some pics when i get over my grief!!

i have a reasonably nice D-1 jacket that was very dry and brittle when i bought it. over a period of weeks i oiled it with carr's leather oil. the problem is that as the jacket has softened up considerably it has also gotten very heavy and i'm sure that i have overdone it with the oil. it seems...

basically what they are is a fibreglass body mounted upon a vw floorpan/chassis. there are many different variations of body style that can be mounted on this chassis. a fellow that i work with has a lemans style porche racer body on a vw pan. its pretty over the top though, it kinda looks like...

they have them here in canada ! :D

very, very nice jackets andrew!! your redskin in particular is one of the nicest i have ever seen! they truly are beautiful examples and you should be very proud of what you have there!( as i'm sure you are!) sim.

i saw a mga, or was it a morgan, kit car the other day. looked great, nice and shiny, original color, all of the bells and whistles. almost had me thinking it was the real thing for a minute, but then i took a closer look and realized what it really was. i gotta admit, though, it sure looked...

well... i too will respectfully take what you have said under advisement, however i guess that i am just a stickler for original jackets. in my opinion the cut on the straps is wrong and the material is too light a color. if it does in fact have two hand warmer pockets on it then thats out too...

hers the last one that didnt make it on the other post.

IMG]http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff357/sitkaspruceman/001-1.jpg[/IMG] here are some pics of my nice B-3. the one next to it is my size 44 which i wear every now and then. i'll take some pics of it and post them tomorrow. sim