From: Joe Garrett (j.garrett@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Aug 11 2005 - 13:08:53 PDT
Whether this CCKW was "originally" strato blue or not is almost irrelevant.
The real question is, should it be restored to early USAF colors; strato
blue with yellow markings? If it was restored in this way, it would be a
show stopper.
I have a 1953 Studebaker M35 that was originally strato blue. I can't
decide whether to restore it that way or not. I have no interest in showing
it, and prefer to set it up in US Army OD with white stars.
On the other hand, do I have some historical obligation to make what could
be a one of a kind restoration? I remember seeing M37's in strato blue, but
don't recall ever seeing a deuce in that color. I definitely never saw a
CCKW painted blue (and I grew up near the end of one of the runways at
McChord AFB).
Joe Garrett
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf
Of Dan Bever
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [MV] cckw info
Hi Randy and others.
I am diffinitly not the expert on this. I would say
that all of the USAAF or Army Air Corp vehicles were
painted OD during WWII. I have not run across any that
were offically painted Blue except for those vehicles
that were painted Blue over the OD once the USAF came
into being after WWII. I thought it interesting in
that if the 43 CCKW that Randy has does in fact not
have a spec of OD under the Blue and only the red
oxide primer then my only train of thought was the
possibley of some sort of rebuild program that would
have stripped the trucks down and repainted.
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