Lafette & mg42
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:45 pm
Some photos of the lafette I just got from Allegheny Arsenal.I stuck on a 42 that is ready to be welded,all ground and fitted.Hope to have it running soon.Looking for optics. ---bil
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:32 pm
Couldn't help but notice, but what year is the Olds 442?
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:37 pm
Awesome pictures, Bil. Just plain awesome. Grabbed em for my MG-42 files...
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:59 pm
What is that white stuff all over the ground? 
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:18 pm
6 megs of pics takes me 35 minutes to download.... 
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:11 pm
Bil, the pics are just great. The MG42 looks so intimidating on a lafette, doesn't it? Are those Russians I see way back in the woods? Coming to occupy the 442, no doubt. 
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GeeDeeEmm
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:57 am
Nice pictures! Looks like a beautiful area to live too!
42 or 34?
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:17 am
Is that a rebuilt 34 tripod, or is it a original MG42 tripod?
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:08 am
The 442 is a 65 convertible,I have a 65 hardtop in the barn,from Arizona,that I am fixing up.I found those russians sleeping in the back seat.The white stuff on the lafette is styrofoam stuck to cosmoline,the other white stuff was here when I got back from Calif.,That sucked.It's nice here,but winter lasts too long.I am still checking thew lafette,it was sold as for a 42. ---bil ps I will have someone show me how to make the pictures faster for Jbaum,meanwhile,John-computers aren't made to run on telegraph wire!
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:24 am
i like the 442
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:24 am
Thanks.I've had it for about 13 years.Never driven it with the top up.I have had 442s for over 30 years,at least 15 of them Well built cars. ---bil
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:01 pm
Very nice setup there. I wish you the best of luck with your MG>
RR
RR
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:46 am
nice combo. the 442 is one of my favorite GM's , Now you just need a turret mount
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:32 am
I use the rear setting for the bi-pod on the mg34-a cut-down bi-pod and a home-made clamp.it bolts on the windshield header with the top down,just above the rear-view morror.It works good,but you have to hold on when braking to keep it from tipping into the windshield! 
---bil
---bil