From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 18:09:10 PDT
That was a hell of a soap box rant!!!
---- Ron <rojoha@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Yep, it's best that the Viet Nam Impressionators die out instead of
> letting wannabes not be 100% correct while they come up to speed. Best to
> not have someone willing to at least try to help preserve SOME of the
> history than have it incorrectly portrayed to a public that couldn't even
> find Viet Nam on map, let alone notice if that big green truck over there
> has the correct exhaust stack. Then they would yell "FAKE!!!". Wouldn't want
> that to happen, right?
>
> But wait, how correct is it for some one who was born after, say 1957
> trying to pull off a Viet Nam 'impression'? Or worse yet a WWII
> 'impression', with cloth made in 1999 from the closest fabric weave that
> could be found to ALMOST match authentic 1942 manufactured cloth? How about
> the canvas on your truck there, Bucko? Same weave, weight and preservatives
> as used back in 1968? Got black oxidized grommets or brass? Are you SURE
> your tie down rope smells right? How about that rifle your carrying there,
> pardner? Full auto M16, dated 1967 or earlier, Colt marked, REAL, not repro,
> right?
> Don't want any Viet Nam vets to come up and say, "Geezze Man, this takes
> me back to '66'. I used to drive a truck IDENTICAL to this one." And then he
> climbs in and sees your '68' marked data plate and jump out screaming
> "FAKER" at you because you used the wrong screws or because you got a heater
> mounted in your 36 year old truck that was in it when you got it from the
> DRMO because it was turned in by the Iowa National Guard, which anyone would
> know was not in the RVN.
> Got a flash for ya sport. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN! These Guys are just
> THRILLED that anyone NOW even recognizes what they did THEN! How many M35
> owners have had WWII vets come up and say to their 50 or 60 year old son,"
> This is the TYPE of truck we used to ride in during the war." I sure as
> hell am not gonna correct him!
> I've been asked to take part in the LST 325 visit to Boston at the USS
> Constitution next month. To drive one of several driverless WWII vehicles
> down and back. We've been asked to wear period correct uniforms by the NPS,
> if possible, or as close as possible. But because of the lack of "authentic"
> uniform items at a reasonable price, and the anal retentives you run into at
> these events, I'll probably just wear jeans or a mustard colored set of
> Dickies work clothes. It's that or the "PUBLIC", and especially their
> children, misses out on seeing another WWII vehicle sitting on the pier next
> to the LST. As close as any of them are EVER going to come to the feel of
> the docks in England on May 29, 1944.
> Best to not even try, because of the FARBEs out there, just can't wait
> to crap in a fellow HMV collector's rice bowl, showing they ARE superior to
> you, eh?
> CRAP!!!!! Guys, DON'T let them do this to the hobby! We are trying our
> best to keep these valiant old veterans out the CHICOM smelters. And in this
> case, 'Close Enough' is better than pointing at your Wal Mart lawn mower and
> saying " That mower deck probably contains metal from Viet Nam era M38A1s,
> M715s and M35s! We could probably paint a VN Service Ribbon on her."
> Ever notice the re enactors either don't, or can't, own an HMV for one
> reason or another? We all compliment each others hobbies....
>
> Oooooppppppss, timer on my soap box meter says I gotta give someone else
> a chance....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tactical Truck Info" <info@tacticaltruck.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: 07 May, 2005 08:13
> Subject: Re: [MV] Aberdeen- Convoy-for sale stuff and shopping list
>
>
> >
> >> I had two deuce and a halfs in VietNam with the 427-1
> >> with turbo on them.
> >>
> >> Sonny
> >
> > Sonny, your memory serves you better than mine, I always
> > forget about the short lived M35A1. Out of the hundreds of
> > M44 series trucks I've seen, I can remember two M35A1s.
> > They had the exhaust out between the rear tandem. It's a
> > pet peeve of mine that people will spend alot of time
> > getting their Vietnam impression as acurate as possible
> > then blow it when they pull up in their turbo stack M35A2.
> > Anyone ever seen a picture of a deuce and a half w/ a turbo
> > stack exhaust in Vietnam? I saw one late war picture at the
> > National Archives of a M35A2 that had the expanded metal
> > stone shied on the grill. The exhaust was not visible in
> > the photograph but, with that grill, it could have had a
> > turbo/stack exhaust. It was being strapped down to a boat
> > and appeared to be a South Vietnamese truck.
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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