From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 07:45:16 PDT
Tom
Was it a darker green with a semi gloss paint on it? If so, it most likely
is Japanese military. I have a picture of a mega cruiser (Their military
equivalent to a HMMWV) if you want to see the exact color.
http://holly.colostate.edu/~lisalou/militarypage
By the way, it Isuzu. You were close.
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kelly" <tjk2356@webtv.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:21 PM
Subject: [MV] Interesting Convoy (Heading to a Town Near You)
>I work for the City of Phoenix, and drive all over town on a daily
> basis, yesterday while going West on I-10 (Phx to LA) I saw probably
> between 20 to 30 civilian flatbed semi's heading East carrying at first
> what I thought were the new S&S 5-tons, but upon further examination
> turned out to be Izuzus (spelling?). The trucks had long cargo beds
> possibly in the 17 foot range, and of the style used on the earlier M35
> or M54 type trucks not the newer style as seen on the S&S trucks. All
> the equipment seemed to be engineering equipment, lot's of pontoon
> stuff, and alot of BIG generators.
>
> Since it was all brand new looking gear, and heading East away from the
> Yuma Proving grounds, I'm ASSuming that this must be Japans response to
> the Katrina disaster. Maybe they'll surplus them here, instead of
> shipping them home. All vehicles and equipment were painted a solid
> green color quite similiar to our CARC. The trucks while obviously
> tactical vehicles, appeared to have civilian type cabs, with no special
> military features such as folding windshields, and removable tops.
>
> Later - Tom
>
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