From: John Stewart-Smith (micdunn@ev1.net)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 10:42:03 PST
Vadim, et al,
brilliant! Any protection against a snapped winch cable is a good thing!
-Sarge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vadim Kogan" <vadim@XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] New Project (HUMVEE) questions
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:15:05AM -0600, John Stewart-Smith wrote:
> > Why do you want the armoured glass? It distorts your vision, adds a lot
of
> > extra weight, and makes the doors (which also have to be upgraded to
light
> > armour) horrible to open and close. I guess it does add the cool factor.
>
> Well, for some people it's a restoration thing (i.e. their model is
supposed
> to be up-armored, so they restore it this way). Or is this to discourage
> cops with their wimpy 9mm glocks from annoying you? I, OTOH, am thinking
> (way down the road) to put armored glass for the sake of protection when
> winching. What do you think of that?
>
> Vadim.
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