Summer of Fun

Since most of us tend to post pics to social media instead of here, I thought I would put together a little recap of this past summer with the M715 and M725 from shows and parades. This will be full of pics, so sit back and enjoy, and feel free to post up pics of your vehicles from this year!

The year started with this awesome pic that was made for my by a local professional photographer. It's a style called "light painting".
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The beginning of summer means getting everything out from the garages for warm ups and to check them out.
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Memorial Day parade is the typical kick off for the season here around northern Michigan.
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Follow shortly there after by a parade in early June for a local festival.
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Parade selfie with my side kick and several local vets.
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Next we packed up and headed to Louisville for the MVPA Nationals, where I met up with several Zoners and had fun.
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And I filmed a segment with Bob Redfern for Military Collector TV
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While at the show I upgraded my M2 to a new full metal one, complete with propane sim-fire.
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4th of July brought another parade, this time in Ludington pulling a float for the dance school my daughter dances for.
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July brings several area car shows like this one in Hart, MI. where I won a trophy with both the M715 and M725
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A favorite show is at the Golden Sands Golf Course, When else are you going to get to drive on a golf course without getting yelled at.
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August brings Homecoming in Pent-Water, MI and another parade.
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Plus the beautiful weather brings plenty of opportunity to just plain cruise, as I live in a huge tourist area and it's fun just to show the trucks off.
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Playing around adding some camo netting to hang off the troop seats.

Sunsets here are the best! Looking out at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes.
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As summer comes to an end, it's always nice when we get a shot of nice weather and I can get the Trucks out for some cruising fun.
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With one last car show of the season coming up this weekend in Pent-Water and the forecast showing the temps to drop down into the low 50's or upper 40's, means that it is the least favorite time of the year for me. Time to put the top back on, as the end of topless summer cruising is over.
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I hope everyone has enjoyed this look back at summer fun and post up any of your M-series pics from this past year.

WOW, looks like a fabulous summer!
It was great meeting you in Louisville!
Hopefully we will cross paths again!

Best wishes always!!

Very, very nice Dave.
Thanks for the pictures.:)

As for myself, Memorial Day Parade and Service went great with nice weather that morning.
Pulled the two jeeps into the garage that day after the parade, and haven't drove them since:(

We have had one of the wettest summers that I can ever remember.:confused:

So, the jeeps have spent the entire summer in the garage with a dehumidifier running.

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Originally Posted by jeepdan

Very, very nice Dave.
Thanks for the pictures.:)

As for myself, Memorial Day Parade and Service went great with nice weather that morning.
Pulled the two jeeps into the garage that day after the parade, and haven't drove them since:(

We have had one of the wettest summers that I can ever remember.:confused:

So, the jeeps have spent the entire summer in the garage with a dehumidifier running.

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Dan, you need to find the time to get them out for a nice fall drive to check out the fall colors before winter sets in!

Great pics...great trucks...great attention to detail...a real joy...my hats off to ya Sir!!!

Really cool pictures! Love the look of the 715 loaded up with the fun hardware :D

Awesome! You really get out there & represent.

I just use mine for beer runs, bar hops, and tree branch removal.

I did do Cars & Coffee back in May, tho...

Thanks guys, I really love driving and showing my military vehicles.

Had another great weekend with the M715 and M725 at the Octoberfest Car Show in Pent-Water MI. It was a little cool, but was sunny and nice and that brought out a fairly large crowd.
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And we came away with another award again. This time pulling in a Top Ten overall out of over 120 cars.
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Thanks everyone, and I hope everyone had fun this past year in their trucks.

Still out enjoying the last of the good weather around here. We were out for a nice color tour along the back roads around our area.
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Although it is no longer summer fun, I did have the M715 out the other day for a good mid-winter warm-up. Letting it run for quite a while to get the fluids up to temp.
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Great pictures in the snow Dave. Thanks for sharing. :)
I had mine out last month for about 20 minutes, driving up and down the driveway.

No way, will I take my antique jeeps out on our salty roads this time of year.:mad:

The last 4 pics above may be the sharpest M715 pics ever...dang those are great...Dave, I drool over your trucks!!!!!

Really enjoyed this post. Thank you. Nice M715 and the parades look like fun!

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Originally Posted by jeepdan

Great pictures in the snow Dave. Thanks for sharing. :)
I had mine out last month for about 20 minutes, driving up and down the driveway.

No way, will I take my antique jeeps out on our salty roads this time of year.:mad:

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Yep, I only drove around my property, as the same thing I don't want to take them on the salty roads. I usually wait until after a few good spring rains have washed the roads before I take them out for road runs.

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Originally Posted by brute4c

The last 4 pics above may be the sharpest M715 pics ever...dang those are great...Dave, I drool over your trucks!!!!!

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Thanks John, and thank you for all you do with this wonderful site!

Nice truck!

I wish I could take mine out, but they've gone all-out on the salt applications this year. I also misplaced the new tags. :mad: