From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 18:20:12 PDT
That was really good Ron! You are right on target.
Bruce MVPA 23824
Ron 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....
>
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>>
>>> 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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