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#1: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:13 pm
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A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville Indiana yesterday
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#2: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill Author: JeffStringer PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:09 pm
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Wow, nice pics aj! I haven't seen the FT-17 since it looked like this:


#3: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: bsmartLocation: Central Maryland PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:27 pm
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I thought there was a thread here that said the FT-17 from Ropkey had been collected by the U.S. Government. Or was that another FT-17

#4: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:53 pm
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nope Fred has it, The government people? took some other things, I believe a 8" Howitzer, M42 Duster, M47 Patton and a M114 are missing. I could be wrong.. The M1917 engine is out but its running, very cool

#5: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill Author: JeffStringer PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:12 pm
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That Duster wasn't restored yet. Had all the original paint and rust. It was like stepping back into time. You can't do that with the restored vehicles these days.

#6: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: bsmartLocation: Central Maryland PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:13 pm
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Yea, I just traced down the original thread. We wondered about the FT-17 so I guess that has been answered. Nice pictures

#7: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: TrevorLarkumLocation: Northampton, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:51 pm
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Nice pics.

#8: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: DontosLocation: Vine Grove, KY PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:30 am
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- armyjunk2
nope Fred has it, The government people? took some other things, I believe a 8" Howitzer, M42 Duster, M47 Patton and a M114 are missing. I could be wrong.. The M1917 engine is out but its running, very cool


I know where those particular vehicles ended up. I posted a few shots of them, guess I need to dig them up again.


Regards
Don

#9: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:01 am
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I last saw them at Richardson Motor Pool at Knox..

#10: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill Author: HellonwheelsV100 PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:19 pm
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FYI-
Gov't did not seize anything from Ropkey. He elected to return all loaned military vehicles so he could keep his musuem private.

#11: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:03 pm
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None of the vehicles he has belong to the Government? Is that correct?

#12: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: ddoyle PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:06 am
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- armyjunk2
None of the vehicles he has belong to the Government? Is that correct?


That is correct.

#13: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:19 am
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nice

#14: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill Author: JeffStringer PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:39 am
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Fred Ropkey is really a nice person to spend some time and chat with. He was a tank commander in Korea in a M4A3 105MM Sherman. He has some pretty interesting things to talk about.

I need to plan another day out there soon and get some new pictures! Razz

#15: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In Author: armyjunk2 PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:31 pm
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Fred and Skip are very nice people, either will spend an hour or so chatting with you about tanks and things



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