>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.
The one thought I had when I saw that scene, well other than how does a
vehicle get launched when it's supposed to be running into something, but
then this is Hollywood, is that when it landed it looked like the suspension
was a bit stiff. Would a normal 2-1/2 ton land like that? and if it would
land like that, would the axles and such survive? Inquiring minds want to know.
je
>
>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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