Re: [MV] Moving swiftly back to military vehicles

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 00:49:22 PDT


At 9:23 AM +0200 7/5/04, Nigel Hay wrote:
>A pretty rare vehicle has just been advertised on www.milweb.net in the
>Armour and tracked section - an LTV4 - particularly rare in Europe, made
>me
>think -I am curious to know how many exist in private hands these days -
>maybe 6 or so ?
>What was the post war Civvy use for these? Or were they just broken up for
>the engines?

Well, for any kind of civil engineering they're
excellent for shallow tide water work in
surf-zones or swampy terrain just like the
Landing craft, LSTs and DUKWs are.

VMMV in Virginia
(http://tanks2go.com/United_States/us.htm) has
one as well. Running even!

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