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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville Indiana yesterday not for 56K people click here tinyurl.com/5kwd6f

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill
Wow, nice pics aj! I haven't seen the FT-17 since it looked like this:

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
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 _________________ Bob Smart (bsmart@xecu.net)

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
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

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill
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.

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
Yea, I just traced down the original thread. We wondered about the FT-17 so I guess that has been answered. Nice pictures _________________ Bob Smart (bsmart@xecu.net)

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
Nice pics. _________________ Trevor Dr Trevor Larkum Preserved Tanks: PreservedTanks.com Armour Archive: ArmourArchive.co.uk EVs

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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
- 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

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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:01 am Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill
I last saw them at Richardson Motor Pool at Knox..

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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill
FYI- Gov't did not seize anything from Ropkey. He elected to return all loaned military vehicles so he could keep his musuem private. _________________ Dave C MVPA, MVCCO Portland OR

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

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
- armyjunk2 None of the vehicles he has belong to the Government? Is that correct? That is correct.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
nice

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsvill
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!

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: A few vehicles I saw at Ropkey's Museum in Crawfordsville In
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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