Also if you watch the scene were Rambo jumps the M135 over the police cars
you can the gas tank come off when it lands back on the ground.
Bobby Joe Pendleton II
MVPA#17657
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, 12 January, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] CCKW-353 has arrived home!..MVs in movies questions.
>
> >
> > In a message dated 1/12/01 5:12:21 AM, tonygull@ozemail.com.au writes:
> >
> > >can anyone tell me what MV features in "First Blood" with Stallone
> > >crashing a cop car..
> >
> > The best possible HMV to destroy- M135 Ha!
>
> Heh. First Blood.
>
> That movie was filmed in British Columbia, and was one of the first films
> the company I work for did for the industry (though before my time.)
>
> The trucks themselves were M-135CDN's, and were still in the service of
Her
> Majesty's Canadian Forces when borrowed from local militia units in
exchange
> for a generous cash donation by the film company.
>
> I do know that the M-135 that did the gas-station deal looked pretty nuked
> when all the pieces landed, but it evidently was salvaged and went on to a
> new life somewhere in the 'states, if memory serves. The others went back
> to their respective units, and one of our fellow list members happened
> across one of them in a farmers field some years afterwards, and was
> surprised to find a U.S. white star when he sanded down a bumperette.
>
> There's another scene to watch out for in that movie. When Stallone had
to
> do his jump onto the top of the one deuce-and-a-half as it drove by,
> evidently the stuntman who first tried it didn't realize the canvas was
not
> used to supporting a jet-propelled human being, and predictably, he went
> right through. The solution after that was to stuff a mattress between
the
> canvas tarp and the top bows (presumably supported from beneath as well)
so
> he could land a bit less spectacularly. If you run the film, you can
quite
> clearly see the outline of somebody's Sealy Posturpedic where there should
> be nothing but oaken skeleton.
>
> Andy Hill
> MVPA 9211
> Vancouver, B.C.
>
>
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