For the guys who like 'em rough

I know of a 1941 GP Ford Jeep. Been in the same family since the late 50s. Still has the N series engine and Model A derivative transmission.
 
Oh my. what a video. Also lots of GR8 comments and the Jeep/B-17 pic was awesome. I knew a guy who built a sail boat out of Ferro cement and he died before he finished it. Also worked with a guy who was a tail gunner in a B-17. The pilot ground looped it on their last mission, totaled the plane with no major injuries to crew. What memories are generated by our GR8 Ford Barn folks. Thanks Gary and everyone!!!
 
mfirth said:
Oh my. what a video. Also lots of GR8 comments and the Jeep/B-17 pic was awesome. I knew a guy who built a sail boat out of Ferro cement and he died before he finished it. Also worked with a guy who was a tail gunner in a B-17. The pilot ground looped it on their last mission, totaled the plane with no major injuries to crew. What memories are generated by our GR8 Ford Barn folks. Thanks Gary and everyone!!!
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Back in 1955 when I was 2, Seattle had no professional sports teams. The only large sporting event of the year was the unlimited hydroplane races on Lake Washington (which we never missed), during Seattle's 'Seafair Week' celebration. My dad never let me forget that my brother and I were in the crowd and witnessed Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston performing not one, but two completely unanounced and unauthorized barrel rolls in a prototype 707 jetliner above the race course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcLQLcUYRSw
 
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Not everybody has a wild story with a 60 year old video to back it up!! GB...you're somthin else.
 
cas3 said:
Not everybody has a wild story with a 60 year old video to back it up!! GB...you're somthin else.
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I grew up with the story, but never searched for info or a video until a couple hours ago. I was thrilled to find it. As I got older I remember we'd park a half mile from the lake and trudge through residential neighborhoods with the crowd making their way to watch the races. These races still exist, but the days of the open cockpits and the deafening roar of the Allison and Rolls Royce engines, are long gone. Sigh.
 
Gary……I mean this with all the sincerity I got before the sun comes up…..you never cease to impress me!!!……..I like how they made him sign for the plane before he flew it……what were they going to do to him if he put it in the lake?!?!?!……great job Bud………Mark
 
Thanks for watching. My dad seemed to have a way of getting us kids involved in the kind of stuff he loved. Hard NOT to love those unlimited hydros! He was in flight school in 1945, done with trainers he got some time in P-47s and then his whole class washed out when the war in Europe was over and he spent the next year with a P-47 group at an airbase in Nordholz Germany. He had a lifelong love of military aircraft, even though he refered to the thunderbolt as a 'jug'.
 
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