From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 11:41:40 PST
Well, Ronzo...heres one for you. Watched Patton for the umpteenth time and
theres a command car looking thing he' riding in and when it takes off....it has
the sound of a jeep. It looks like it should sound more like a Dodge shouldn't
it? Why?
If you look closer....maybe the fellows behind the 57 mm reckless rifle and 3.5
have marshmallows on a stick. Fred
Ronzo wrote:
> Seeing that we will be having some time off this week, how about keeping
> track of MV's in the movies on the tele so we'll know what to watch for in
> the future?
>
> As a start, on Friday on the SciFi channel, the movie EPOCH had a HEMTT,
> M151, several HMMWV (including one with a burned out headlight) and CHICOMs
> using an M35A2 w/w and an M114.
>
> On Sat (today),Turner Classic Movies had a 1957 film, The Invisible Boy
> (with Robby the Robot!), which had several M135's, an M35 gasser, M59 APC
> and an M38A1C with quite a bit of film time showing the vehicles. (For
> giggles, watch for all the troops standing in the safety areas behind the
> recoilless rifle and bazooka when they're fired.)
>
> And not to mention the recently ended SciFi (not so) miniseries TAKEN,
> which had a bunch of HMMWV, M35A2's and an M109, among others.
>
> Whadda ya say?
>
> Ronzo
>
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