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Looking for a V100 (T50) turret in any condition. Doesn't need glass or the main bearing. These also came on some M113s Any help appreciated.

I was recently told that there are probably less than one hundred V100's in the USA today which includes those in private collections, static displays and the few still in service with law enforcement agencies. I knew there wasn't a lot of them but I really didn't know there were that few...

So far I'm being told that since everything but the serial numbers were painted on, being able to definitively track those numbers or images to a particular serial number will be very difficult, if not impossible. Of course that is understandable considering the trouble I had finding some of the...

I was aware that Dave's had the "Proud Mary" nose art and since he had the vehicle it was discovered on, he also has the serial number associated with it. It's a shame that you were not able to retrieve the numbers on your machine...I know the lion's share of the success on mine was luck as so...

Maybe I asked for too many qualifiers in the OP, so how about V100's with photos placing them in Vietnam? Finding the original vehicles intact with all the markings are going to be incredibly rare, which is why many of the survivors today have been rebranded with nose art or numbers from other...

Does anyone know how many Cadillac Gage V100’s that served in Vietnam are back stateside and now privately owned with the following intact: 1-uncut/unmodified hull (not demilled and repaired) 2-original registration and vehicle number 3-nose art 4-photos while in service I’ve been able to...

Here's a pair of M73 dummies we just finished for @Austringer's V100 restoration. Cerakoted in 'Armor Black' SN's KH004 and KH005

Since I made this post, I found the original nose art for the V100 we're restoring, which ended up being "Super V" and with that revelation I was able to find out the names of several MP's in the V100 crews, including a soldier named Harold Cypret who painted "Super V" in 1971. The M2HB on top...

Our customer's had been cut and cobbled back together and although it could have been made to function, I didn't want my name on it. Fortunately I was able to find a couple brand new sealed, corrosion resistant bearings.

I've recently discovered two important pieces of trivia! One is the name of the soldier who painted Super V on the nose of this machine and he wants to come by the shop and check it out. Also he has more photos and 8mm film from over there. Second thing relates to the field install of the M2HB...

I remember at the beginning of this project asking for at least a single photo of this machine while in Vietnam and here lately I seem to get regular updates. Unfortunately some of the pictures are from sons or daughters of the soldiers that had them. Here is an early (late '69 or early '70)...

When the Super V nose art first went on this vehicle it was in Quang Tri Vietnam 55 years ago, now it is back on the same vehicle it first appeared on, right here in Carrollton, GA

I was talking with Patrick today and he was telling me about the 504th C Company being the northernmost MP unit in Vietnam, located in Quang Tri. When you look at a map, I guess you can't really get much further north than that without crossing into the DMZ

Rory I have to admit that luck was probably the largest contributor to the success of this project. Had it not been for early photos showing the registration and vehicle number, there's really no way I could have been able to connect the dots. After having done so, it has helped connect the...

I know I have been tracing down the history of the V100 we are working on in our shop since '21. Although the restoration officially started in the mid '80s, we started with only a limited set of facts to go on and are only recently tracking down clearer details and accounts of it's military...

Here is a bit of a rare photo. Over the years I have seen very few armored vehicle interior shots while in war zones. This one features Elton Littlejohn who was on the relay team at USC in '67 with OJ Simpson. This is in fact the interior of Super V although there are no ways of proving it...or...

As far as Super V is concerned, ser# 10602, registration # 1304269, vehicle # C55 was built in '69 then sent to Vietnam served it's time there and was returned to the US in '72...really short service life when you consider what kind of sense it would make to scrap a 3 year old vehicle today...

Seemed the search for photos or finding other service members familiar with the V100 we are restoring (Super V) was becoming more and more elusive. Fortunately we kept up the pursuit and it's finally paying off. In these photos the third of the three V100's assigned to the 504th C Company called...

Been a while since we updated the Blood Sweat and Tears search. As it turns out, the reason nobody remembers "Blood Sweat and Tears" is because that was the second name given to the V100 and it happened after Don Tillman had gone home. A vet named Patrick Spinks sent a group of photos from his...

I think we may have finally cracked the case on the Blood Sweat and Tears V100. I have been in contact with a couple 504th C Company vets and they've been contacting old army buddies they've not talked to in nearly 55 years. As a result, nobody so far can place the BS&T V100 in their memories...