From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:26:34 PST
Here Here RONZO!!!!!!!!!
God I hope the bottom drops............cause "daddy still needs a 5 ton tractor"
Jeff in VT
Home of 3 deuces, 2 five tons and a M37
---- Jim Cooney <triumphtrash13@eircom.net> wrote:
> Hi Ronzo,
>
> Top class post to the list. I'm sure there are many more folkz on the list
> that feel the same way as you.
> I couldn't agree with you more on your very well written post.
> I pay over $5 a gallon for Diesel here in Ireland and it's due to go up in
> price again real soon but for me it's all about taking out my military truck
> as often as I can and not worry about miles per gallon but "smiles per
> mile"!!
> Keep on military truckin'!
>
> Jim...in Ireland.
> M1008 CUCV
> S-250G Communications Shelter & Trailer.
>
> ****************************************************************************
> *******************
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron" <rojoha@adelphia.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:12 PM
> Subject: [MV] Was Re: [MV] Deuce/MUTT trade?/For Sale
>
>
> Welllllllll......
> I think ya might be looking at the glass being half full, Glenn.
> This is a hobby, just like classic cars, hot rods, boats, snow mobiles
> and privately owned general aviation airplanes. And folks ALWAYS find ways
> to play with, and pay, for their toys.
> Now I consider myself a regular (though demented) guy. Unlike several
> of the Deuce owners on the list, I don't drive it a thousand miles at a
> crack for yucks. I do parades, ice cream runs and weekend cruising. I don't
> give a horses patoot if the price of diesel goes to $4+ a gallon, the deuce
> is still gonna roll.
> I got $1200 in a gun ring, $200 in a trolley, $500 in an M2HB replica,
> $500 in 10 spare sneakers, maybe a grand in tires, parts and cargo cover for
> the M105, let alone spares and stuff for the Deuce. Maybe another $3 or 4K
> in odds and ends for the Deuce.
> I really don't have a clue how much I have invested in all this green
> iron. Four M38A1s, an M37, two M101CDNs, an M116A2 with generators, an M715,
> an M1010 and 3 H1 diesel fired aircraft pre heaters. A couple of take out
> engines, a complete NOS, in the crate, drum to drum, rear axle for the M37.
> Five Gama Goat tires and wheels in case I get around to buying the
> conversion discs to put them on the 715, or now the 37. Plus a couple of
> bays under the barn of spares, radio gear and 'stuff' to maintain and repair
> the iron. Oh, and don't forget jacks, jack stands, engine hoists, test gear,
> special tools (3/4" drives and sockets, impacts, torque wrenches, killer
> brake shoe pliers, Oxy acetylene torches and welder, etc.) to work on (or
> break even more) these bad boys. All purchased since I bought the first
> M38A1.
> I'll buy my 15W40 Rotella by the drum at Sam's Club. We're getting ready
> for the site survey of the back yard for the construction of a building, a
> Morton if I'm lucky, a pole barn if I'm not, to store and work on all this
> 'junk'. Are the building costs of $15-30 a square foot justified by the cash
> value of what's going in there. Nope, not even to an insane person! But it
> does to me, and probably a bunch of the other guys out there. We moved from
> Massachusetts to New Hampshire because of my 'hobby'. My wife goes along
> with it because it is one of the few things that a family can do together,
> frequently. We don't have a $30k boat that only goes places on weekends 3
> months out of the year, or an $80k motor home or pickup-5th wheel camping
> trailer combo. We got a couple of running veterans that go to Home Depot,
> the grocery store and just 'rides' when the weather is nice and the mood
> strikes. My kid's and their friend's grins when riding in the back of one of
> the Vets is priceless. The Missus knows where I am 99% of the time (out back
> under something) and if I'm not there, she knows, at least with my
> mechanical skills, I won't have traveled far! And when I finally punch out,
> my 'friends' will make sure the missus isn't lonely, at least while the
> 'junk' lasts.
> The big iron may only get 6 to 8 mpg, but the difference in price
> between what it takes to fix up a deuce and a basket case HMMWV means you
> have maybe $10k to spend for diesel fuel ... 2500 gallons at 8 mpg is more
> than I'll drive it in the next 10 years. The Deuce is still the best bang
> for the buck.
> How does that old joke go? What's the difference between a chicken and a
> pig when it comes to a ham and egg breakfast? The chicken is involved, the
> pig is committed.
> I'm committed to this hobby.
>
> Collecting and operating HMVs.
> NOT for the faint of heart!
>
> Regards, Ronzo the Insane
>
> PS... And I wouldn't exactly be broken up, if, as you predict, that "the
> bottom is pretty much going
> to fall out of the large truck market as diesel starts edging up to 3.00 a
> gallon this summer." It might just mean the sanity will come back to the
> hobby and we can buy the heavy iron at $750 to $2500 like we used to from
> GL. It'll be a buyers market. Like Lays Potato Chips, nobody can buy just
> one. And I can always whack a few more pines to make more room out back for
> one more 'must have'... Don't have any WWII stuff yet, and Dr. Deuce says
> you aren't a REAL HMV collector until you do have at least one.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Shaw" <mpmutt@mtaofnj.us>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: 18 March, 2005 10:05
> Subject: Re: [MV] Deuce/MUTT trade?/For Sale
>
>
> Hi Stu
> I agree with you on this. Plus I think that the bottom is pretty much going
> to fall out of the large truck market as diesel starts edging up to 3.00 a
> gallon this summer. I was looking at a nice 923 but now plans have
> changed. Regular guys like us are going to be out of the ball park with the
> big stuff. It was fun having 4 deuces over the years but I am going to
> stick the the small 5/4 ton and down vehicles now.
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
>
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