Re: [MV] TV show 'Rat Patrol' from the '60s

Jeanne Lacourse (cckw@mediaone.net)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 09:24:21 -0500

The original Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) used modified Chevrolet 1.5 ton
2 wheel drive trucks as I recall. They had big sand suitable tires, lots of
water and fuel cans too.

Steve

AKA Dr Deuce
Please note new home E-mail address cckw@mediaone.net

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Subject: Re: [MV] TV show 'Rat Patrol' from the '60s

> Hi. Anyone remember that show from the '60s? About as much as I remember,
it
> was a bunch of guys who drove jeeps with mounted machine guns and did a
good
> job of squirrly driving, off jumps and everything.
>
> I was also a fan of the series when it originally aired in the 60's. It
> wasn't until later while watching reruns on cable on WGN that I realized,
for
> the most part, they were driving modified CJ2A's. Every once and awhile
you
> would see a real MB, but seeing that external gas tank filler on the
drivers
> side kind of ruined it for me. That and the German's roaring up in their
> White half-tracks and M37's! Almost as bad as watching Henry Fonda get out
of
> an M38 in 'The Battle of the Bulge'.
>
>
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