What a blast!
The club tried something new this time. The monthly meeting took
on more of a 'social' atmosphere with a large number of members and guests
showing up at Danny's place, aka: Kaiserville in Austin.
About 11:00am or so, people starting arriving with vehicles and
show&tell items. Scott drove his M38A1 over and Toby drove his
M170. Scott also pulled out his 1939 Colson bicycle from the barn to
display. Danny pulled out his M151A2/M416 and his CJ7/M614
combo. Fred H had his CJ2A on-site as well.
Also in attendance were Scott's dad, Danny's wife, Herb T, Jim H, Glen
V, Don and Carol Ling, Tim W, Jeni L, Barry F, John A and his wife, Jim W
from San Antonio and Claude V. Herb brought along a lot of his radio
gear and Toby brought along items for sale as well.
Great discussions were held in the field regarding many topics
including the M614 trailer Danny has acquired. We all believed he
was 'mistaken' about it's identification and it was an M416.
However, after Danny produced the M614 dataplate, we all stood there
amazed and dumbfounded.
After a great lunch of sausages and beverage, Tim conducted the monthly
meeting in near-record time. After the meeting, several members
departed but most stayed around to converse and consume beverage of
choice. A bit later on, Scott, Glen and Herb broke out the chop-saw,
plate steel, welding unit and grinders to fabricate a radio bracket for
Herb's GPW.
About 4:30pm or so, most everyone had departed. A good time - you
bet!