The CCKw's were modified to look like M35's cos believe it or not in the
early 80's no none had them in the UK.
Stanley Kubrik borrowed the tanks from the Belgian army and Becton Gasworks
in Londons East End (now part of the luxury residential area of London
Docklands) was transformed into Vietnam. The London Fire brigade got may
calls from people woh heard explosions and saw smoke during the filming.
At least one of the 6x6 trucks survives with collector Mark Palmer and is a
regular at the War and Peace Show and most major MV events here in the home
of all the good films.(Compulsory Beltring content....)
Has everyone overlooked the famous Rodney Rushton jeep driving sequence in
the forest in A Bridge Too Far?
Kind regards, NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Michalski" <amichalski@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: [MV] M135's/CCKW's--Full Metal Jacket
> Speaking of trucks in the movies, in Full Metal Jacket, something that
> struck me as odd was a scene where there is a convoy of what I think are
> CCKW's instead of M135's or M35's in that movie. Do I need a refresher
> course on my 6x6 truck id'ing, or are the trucks shown in this scene a
> little too old to be in a Vietnam era movie?
>
> Andy
>
> > use! They don't look bad - for what they are - but once again M135's
are
> > playing CCKW's, and, as though we were permanently stuck in the late
60's,
>
> > Andy Hill
> > MVPA 9211
> > Vancouver, B.C.
>
>
>
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