ford gpa g504

Tony Best wishes for you! Here four pictures from the top bow attachements. They are bolted together with the side rail / coaming. I think,because you have a early one, you have side coamings without profile and no reinforcements / antenna brackets to bolt those top bow brackets on. You can see more...

Hello GPA friends With this headline I know I' m kicking agaist "holy Houses" ! I know and realise it is not original. Because I drive and sail a lot in my GPA in summer time but also in winter time I deceided to make a better bad weather protection for our Dutch climate. I'm sure if GPA w...

Untouched GPA 4926 ; D.O.D. Dec -28 - 1942 has Firestone Tires!
I' ll suppose they were assembled on the first 1000 GPA's like
the date on the normal GPW's.

Bob

Today I had a special guest on board of my GPA. 8) I was at the river "Maas" in central Holland where I was the transport of a holy man from Spain. St.Nicholas is visiting several towns here in Holland and giving a lot of presents to the children for his birthday on December 5th. I drove a...

Hello Erik

Take a look at Mithrill's site and click on "historique".
Than go to photo's WW 2.
At the bottum a lot of pictures of Ben Carlin's Half Safe and
a lot of pictures of tortuga.

Bob

Erik

Take a look at the site of member of this list Mithril.
A lot of pictures!

Bob

Yes Tony

That is for a small metal cover plate.
I'll try to make a picture of it.
Take a close look at your pictures you got from me!

Bob

Hello Cees It seems that there is not much time for t.v. watching in the near future! :roll: It seems a lot of work for you to do before sailing with this new project1 But!!, I'm very curious. Where did you find this GPA? Can you show us more pictures of the interieur? What do you know abouth her hi...

Hello Tony

I'm very interested!
Can you get those tags for me?

Bob

Leo

It is a little tricky thing to do!
Hard to explain on this forum.
When you are in that stage I will gladly assist you.

Bob

Tony I just had a telephone conversation with Koer Wijker. Koer is the guy who sells those fantastic GPA rubber seals. He is also very good with the iron work on the body of GPA's. He can send you the drawnings of those plates or make a set for you. You can E-mail him and tell him what you want. Wij...

Tony There is a small plate rond the bilge pipe! You see the plate with a bold and a srew lower on the vertical floorplate. Left from the above mentioned bold you can see one of the two screws that attached the small plate half around the bolge pipe. If it is not clear I can remove this plate and ta...

Tony Here 3 pictures of the most forgotten Items on a GPA. Like Cees mentioned one left & one right. On the left , if you look good ,you can see a small plate attached with 2 screws. Like I mentioned before, Koer Wijker has measures and probably produce them for you. http://i.imgur.com/K9NsOlDl....

Tony Here is a picture of the left & right cover plates. You can compare the sizes with the belly of Jan Markering. (You can see the reasons of this belly too!) If you mail to Koer Wijker here in Holland (member) he can give you the exact sizes. http://i.imgur.com/k4ERcOil.jpg Good luck , Bob