Re: [MV] Vets day stuff

From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 21:33:46 PST


The computer in the M-35 is mounted on the driver's seat..

Steve & Jeanne Keith wrote:
>
> I did Manchester NH today. My wife Jeanne and I brought the 1943 GMC cckw
> out and participated. The organizers could not figure out where to put us,
> so we wound up dead last! Not a problem.
>
> Interestingly as I parked behind the new FMT* or whatever they are called,
> an elderly woman
> came out of one of the houses and with a ferign accent stated that she
> remembered my CCKW from when she was a child. Seems she was a child in
> Belgium at the end of WW2 and remembered the 'liberators' coming through the
> town in there American army trucks! I thought that this was quite neat!
>
> On a more serious note, the soldiers driving the Stewart trucks remarked at
> how neat it
> was to have a reliable 60 year old truck (mine) and how one bullet to the
> passengers side of the dash would stop the Stewart army truck as that is
> where the computer is.....
>
> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
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