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Re: M20 Survivor List

Post by John Neuenburg » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:51 pm

clintm20 wrote:I sold my M20 but have fond memories of it, just not of lifing the hood sections. :D
HAH! And letting one come down on your toe!
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Post by Bulldog3rd » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:01 pm

Well GBK-54-C (Hull #47) is now titled properly and preparing to start the restoration. A good friend and vehicle restorer has accepted the job. I am taking it the slow route so the restoration should take 3-4 years. I have been given the OK by my friend to help with the work so I can have a hand in the restoration. Looking forward to the first trip through the Drive Through at McD's.

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Re: M20 Survivor List

Post by pdqf » Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:58 am

How many were built at the Ford truck Plant in St Paul MN? PDQF

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Post by Bulldog3rd » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:36 am

As far as anyone can tell all M20's were built at the Chicago Plant. M8's were built at both Chicage and St. Paul.

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Post by Bulldog3rd » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:14 pm

Restoration has commenced on GBK-540-C
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Post by Bulldog3rd » Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:47 am

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So this M20 popped up on Facebook in the MATVO group page. It's a converted M20 to a Police Armored car. Apparently it went through several police agencies. It has a Ford Inline 6 cylinder with an Automatic. He got it up running and Driving.

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Post by Bulldog3rd » Thu May 10, 2018 8:48 pm

Located GBK-404-C. Formerly located at the Aberdeen Proving Geounds outdoor museum now transfered to The Air Defense Artillery Museum, Ft Sill Lawton Oklahoma.
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Post by Amcmackin » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:35 am

As per the post that popped up today, I have SN: C-915 to add to the list. Was owned by a collector in the central valley but now is located near Reno NV. It is being put in line to restore after I finish my gpw.
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Post by John Neuenburg » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:06 pm

Bulldog3rd wrote:
Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:01 pm
Well GBK-54-C (Hull #47) is now titled properly and preparing to start the restoration. A good friend and vehicle restorer has accepted the job. I am taking it the slow route so the restoration should take 3-4 years. I have been given the OK by my friend to help with the work so I can have a hand in the restoration. Looking forward to the first trip through the Drive Through at McD's.

Kevin
Hah! You'll find out pretty quick that drive-throughs are not your friend when you are in a hull. Your arms won't be that long. I've told this story.....Back when the Golden Gate Bridge had human toll-takers in booths, I drove up in my M20, the wide lane of course, and the lady was too dumbfounded to count axles to decide what to charge me. Stared for a while and didn't react to the $20 bill I was waving hoping she would leave her booth to grab it. This was the lane closest to the Toll Sergeant's office, and I heard from over my right shoulder, "It's a Greyhound!" So someone in there knew some history. Not quite accurate but close. I can't imagine what the toll taker would have done with that info. ("Hmm... here it is in my rate book.... M8 Greyhound..." Good think that's not how they charge us. I would have paid for an extra ton!
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Post by Bulldog3rd » Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:26 pm

It appears that Ord. NO 6725-C is now in possession of the Kansas National Guard in Topeka Kansas. She was transferred from the Eisenhower Museum. The put a battery in her, hooked up a gas can with an electric fuel pump and she started right up. I'll have to see if I can get up there to visit.
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Post by Joe DeMarco » Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:03 am

Hi Bulldog,

For what it is worth, USA 60132041 is an exact mathematical match to Ord. Serial Number 6725.
Clint reported from the old M8/M20 Newsletter that the "other number" of the next one SN 6726 was 3453.
Would be curious to know what the "other number" is on 6725.
I have a Disposition of Eqpt. Rept. from the 656TD Bn at Camp Campbell, Ky. dated 12/11/45, that has it that USA 60132041 & about 30 other M20s were transferred out of the unit. (They may have been replaced by M39 AUVs.)
The 656 TD Bn fought in the ETO starting in late Feb. 1945. First with M18s, then M36s after a month.
Don't know their history after that, but would guess that they might have been redeployed to Ft. Campbell in prep for the Invasion of Japan?

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Post by airborne-53 » Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:22 am

hello
two M20 in southern corsica , unfortunately scrapped by italian from sardaignia in 2012
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Post by Big D » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:40 pm

Hi all

Is there an M8 survivor list anywhere? It would be interesting to see such a list for the M8 as well, along with a note on both lists about where the vehicle is now, much like Tom’s Scout Car database.
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Post by matheu29 » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:24 pm

So by my math c473 should have a usa 60111245? Is this correct

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Re: M20 Survivor List

Post by Big D » Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:09 pm

Hello matheu29,

Yes, that would be correct based on my understanding of the formula but no doubt the resident experts on here will confirm.
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