Re: [MV] *** Take you HMV out today ***

From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 08:14:14 PDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] *** Take you HMV out today ***

At 1:38 PM +0100 6/7/04, noel shelley wrote:
>1 cwt = 112 lb
> 20 cwt = 1 Ton
>800 cwt = 40 Tons = 89600 lb Noel

> That's a Big CMP! I thought the C-60X was large too!

It's a neat truck, but it's actually an F8 8 cwt. It's so damn tiny you
don't so much drive it as wear it, and if you're over the typical 5'3" WWII
type and have anything over an 8 shoe size, your feet hit each other while
trying to operate the pedals. It's really...different. Yes. That's the
word.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat May 07 2005 - 20:33:22 PDT