From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 18:03:12 PDT
The Vietnam vet today who was a convoy air traffic
controller didn't care that my V100 was painted blue
or that it was unrestored. Just got all excited and
made his wife get out of the car and look at it.
Hadn't seen one since Nam so it brought back memories.
Rick
--- Ron <rojoha@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Yep, it's best that the Viet Nam Impressionators
> die out instead of
> letting wannabes not be 100% correct while they come
> up to speed. Best to
> not have someone willing to at least try to help
> preserve SOME of the
> history than have it incorrectly portrayed to a
> public that couldn't even
> find Viet Nam on map, let alone notice if that big
> green truck over there
> has the correct exhaust stack. Then they would yell
> "FAKE!!!". Wouldn't want
> that to happen, right?
>
> But wait, how correct is it for some one who was
> born after, say 1957
> trying to pull off a Viet Nam 'impression'? Or
> worse yet a WWII
> 'impression', with cloth made in 1999 from the
> closest fabric weave that
> could be found to ALMOST match authentic 1942
> manufactured cloth? How about
> the canvas on your truck there, Bucko? Same weave,
> weight and preservatives
> as used back in 1968? Got black oxidized grommets or
> brass? Are you SURE
> your tie down rope smells right? How about that
> rifle your carrying there,
> pardner? Full auto M16, dated 1967 or earlier, Colt
> marked, REAL, not repro,
> right?
> Don't want any Viet Nam vets to come up and say,
> "Geezze Man, this takes
> me back to '66'. I used to drive a truck IDENTICAL
> to this one." And then he
> climbs in and sees your '68' marked data plate and
> jump out screaming
> "FAKER" at you because you used the wrong screws or
> because you got a heater
> mounted in your 36 year old truck that was in it
> when you got it from the
> DRMO because it was turned in by the Iowa National
> Guard, which anyone would
> know was not in the RVN.
> Got a flash for ya sport. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!
> These Guys are just
> THRILLED that anyone NOW even recognizes what they
> did THEN! How many M35
> owners have had WWII vets come up and say to their
> 50 or 60 year old son,"
> This is the TYPE of truck we used to ride in during
> the war." I sure as
> hell am not gonna correct him!
> I've been asked to take part in the LST 325
> visit to Boston at the USS
> Constitution next month. To drive one of several
> driverless WWII vehicles
> down and back. We've been asked to wear period
> correct uniforms by the NPS,
> if possible, or as close as possible. But because of
> the lack of "authentic"
> uniform items at a reasonable price, and the anal
> retentives you run into at
> these events, I'll probably just wear jeans or a
> mustard colored set of
> Dickies work clothes. It's that or the "PUBLIC", and
> especially their
> children, misses out on seeing another WWII vehicle
> sitting on the pier next
> to the LST. As close as any of them are EVER going
> to come to the feel of
> the docks in England on May 29, 1944.
> Best to not even try, because of the FARBEs out
> there, just can't wait
> to crap in a fellow HMV collector's rice bowl,
> showing they ARE superior to
> you, eh?
> CRAP!!!!! Guys, DON'T let them do this to the
> hobby! We are trying our
> best to keep these valiant old veterans out the
> CHICOM smelters. And in this
> case, 'Close Enough' is better than pointing at your
> Wal Mart lawn mower and
> saying " That mower deck probably contains metal
> from Viet Nam era M38A1s,
> M715s and M35s! We could probably paint a VN Service
> Ribbon on her."
> Ever notice the re enactors either don't, or
> can't, own an HMV for one
> reason or another? We all compliment each others
> hobbies....
>
> Oooooppppppss, timer on my soap box meter says I
> gotta give someone else
> a chance....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tactical Truck Info" <info@tacticaltruck.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: 07 May, 2005 08:13
> Subject: Re: [MV] Aberdeen- Convoy-for sale stuff
> and shopping list
>
>
> >
> >> I had two deuce and a halfs in VietNam with the
> 427-1
> >> with turbo on them.
> >>
> >> Sonny
> >
> > Sonny, your memory serves you better than mine, I
> always
> > forget about the short lived M35A1. Out of the
> hundreds of
> > M44 series trucks I've seen, I can remember two
> M35A1s.
> > They had the exhaust out between the rear tandem.
> It's a
> > pet peeve of mine that people will spend alot of
> time
> > getting their Vietnam impression as acurate as
> possible
> > then blow it when they pull up in their turbo
> stack M35A2.
> > Anyone ever seen a picture of a deuce and a half
> w/ a turbo
> > stack exhaust in Vietnam? I saw one late war
> picture at the
> > National Archives of a M35A2 that had the expanded
> metal
> > stone shied on the grill. The exhaust was not
> visible in
> > the photograph but, with that grill, it could have
> had a
> > turbo/stack exhaust. It was being strapped down to
> a boat
> > and appeared to be a South Vietnamese truck.
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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