From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 10:52:47 PDT
Another note from Dick was that a lot of Jeeps meant to ship to Russia had
the meters and plate in Russian.
"Take what you want leave the rest"
Glen
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From: 1942 GPW [mailto:1942GPW@dslextreme.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:54 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] WWII Navy and Marine Corp vehicle colors
In response to a post from Skip Woods, John Seidts wrote:
*Another point. After WWII, most flight line vehicles were painted very
bright yellow. It made them much easier to see and prevented jets from
taxiing over them. I think this was done *also in the latter part of WWII,
as I have a Ford GTB which was sold surplus in 1946 and was painted bright
yellow. The color fades to look like a very flat yellow, almost a greenish
*yellow. I theorize that this yellow color was the same as that used to
paint all WWII USN training aircraft, which as a rule were painted yellow
during WWII (this is why you will *sometimes hear the Stearman biplane
called the "Yellow Peril"). I have yet to see a restored WWII vehicle
painted this way, and would really like to see one...
I have often wondered why my '42 GPW was so thoroughly painted yellow. The
gentleman I purchased it from told me that their family had used it as a
hunting vehicle in Idaho and that was a requirement. I could never
understand why anyone would go to the trouble of painting the inner fender
wells, under the dash, under the hood, etc. for a brush beater. Perhaps
doing a yellow Jeep is in the cards for this one. See
http://www.dslextreme.com/users/1942gpw.
Pat
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