By the way, does anyone know if Ohio will let you register your mil vehicle
with the registration numbers that are on it?? I heard somewhere, maybe on
here, that some states in the US will allow that.
Just curious,
Brian Redick
M882 4x4
M54 6x6
-----Original Message-----
From: David C. Barbieri <barbiedc@maadmin.marshall.tstc.edu>
To: mil-veh@skylee.com <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: (Fwd) Re: [MV] FUEL???
>Forwarded message:
>From: Self <MAADMIN/BARBIEDC>
>To: cchriss@ix.netcom.com
>Subject: Re: [MV] FUEL???
>Reply-to: barbiedc@marshall.tstc.edu
>Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:05:52 CST
>
>> From: "Chuck Chriss" <cchriss@ix.netcom.com>
>Hi Chuck -
>
>Gotta agree with your view here; BTST (Been There, Seen That):
>
>> I was not dressed in anything military but he seemed to think I was
>>"official". He left without bothering me further.
>>
>> Maybe the mentality is that if you are in a military vehicle you are
automatically one of
>> the "good guys"???
>
>Maybe it's a combination of the above; ie: 1) Invisible, 2) Benign,
>and, 3) Official. I regularly make trips to our main campus in Waco
>(140 miles), back to Ft. Worth (also ~ 140 miles), and up to
>Texarkana (Red River Army Depot). Most law enforcement types usually
>don't even look up. Those that do actually notice my passing by grin,
>laugh, wave, or some combination. In the past year, never been
>stopped, never been hassled.
>
>When we first picked up the truck in Fort Worth (Federal Surplus
>Property program), we made the decision to drive it back to our campus.
>Maurice, the welding instructor would follow me in one of our 'company
>cars' (white Chevy pickup, yellow lights, state plates). The deuce had no
>plates, no inspection sticker, no muffler, and all identifiers had been
>painted over in flat black paint. We rumbled out of the yard and headed
>east. At the first major intersection, I hit a 'stale yellow' light.
Badly
>overestimating the deuce's ability to accelerate (I've slept since the last
>time I drove one of these), I went thru on red. Maurice, right behind me,
>also went thru on red. The lead car to our right (now green) was a Texas
>State Trooper. He made a left turn, and headed in the opposite direction.
>8-D (I heard later that Maurice went thru 2 packs of cigarettes before we
>ever got out of FW!) On the way home, our unregistered, uninspected
>vehicle passed troopers, sheriff's, constables, and local police. Not one
>single response. What a hoot!! Ya know, with the growing number of
>'tactical vehicles' being used by law enforcement agencies, maybe
>these guys figure we're SWAT teams or something! (heeheeheehee)
>
>Dave Barbieri
>
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