From: Mark B. Anderson (mark@aasurplus.ca)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 12:04:26 PST
Yes CMP's are nice I have 6 sitting about 150' away from my land and the old
guy that owns them would rather have them become trees then sell them so as
I sit working on my other toys I can see these 6 all lined up and just
rotting away.. if anyone would like pictures of them to identify them please
e-mail me off list. Oh and there is an old jeep also in the line up but I
don't know anything about jeeps or were to even begin to look to tell you
what it is.
Cheers
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Train Pics-war contribution
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> To: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>; "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Train Pics-war contribution
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>
>> At 11:09 AM -0800 12/2/04, chance wolf wrote:
>> >
>> >Cool. <sneaking in obligatory military vehicles content> Just make
>> >sure
>> >you get the markings right on your CMP or MB/GPW or Dodge APT 3/4 or
> you'll
>> >have us walking around going "damn Colonials!" :)
>>
>> I got a "nicely restored and stowed Mk II Dingo" in Military Machines
>> Magazine a while back. And we're constantly getting asked about our
>> CMP C-15 "I've worked on a lot of Chevys, but I ain't never seen one
>> of those....looks kinda tough, I like that..."
>
> Heh. We get that too. Every time you take a CMP Ford or Chevy out in
> public
> you get people thinking you don't know what you're talking about when you
> suggest Ford or Chevy once made something so...unique. And RHD. It's
> also
> fun watching people who think the War was fought by 6' tall 200 lb guys
> climb in the cab and try to do...well...anything, really. :)
>
> Members of our local MVPA Chapter, "Western Command" have a decent
> assortment of WWII Canadian stuff between them, a lot of which actually
> regularly shows up to events. It's pretty much only recently that the
> locals seem to have renewed an interest in the CMPs after the
> cheap-and-available years of newer surplussed stuff like M-37s, M38A1s and
> M135s - and now it's not unusual to see three out at the same event. (Not
> trailered to/from either. Driven all the way! Masochists all, says I...)
>
> Locally we also have an older-restoration Daimler Dingo (recently lent to
> the Dutch community of Lynden, WA for a year-long exhibit in their
> museum),
> a Cab 11 F8, a Cab 11 FAT beautifully restored by one of our members on
> behalf of a local military unit's museum, and at least 4-5 Cab 13 C15s
> either restored or under restoration. They're sure a hit with the vets
> when
> they stop by. It's just a shame we couldn't have fielded them a few years
> earlier when more vets were around to be a hit *with*.
>
> (It's also fun to tell people that your Jeep was built by Ford. One local
> AMC/Chrysler dealership had a restored M38 featured prominently on their
> showroom floor to help up-sell the public on the long-established,
> hard-core
> traditions of AMC dating back to WWII. Someone politely informed them
> that
> the data plate had been screaming "Ford" at prospective AMC customers
> since
> the day they rolled the thing in, and it magically disappeared from view
> shortly thereafter. Some people just have no sense of humour. ;)
>
>
>
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