One our best"stunts" is to feed the UK national traffic info service which
feeds all the local radio stations.
When in 97 a tank carrying lowboy pulled over on a freeway 150 miles away ,
we faxed national traffic info service to apologise for the delay caused by
the WW ONE tank being moved to the show and gave its route and advance
warnings of routes of all convoys in ....result massive peak time radio
coverage all over the nation -they now call us for stories.
Check out the show http://freespace.virgin.net/john.blackman4/imps.html
Enjoy, NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Greville <dgrev@apollo.ruralnet.net.au>
To: Morgan Blanchard <bmorgan@gbis.com>
Cc: <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] MVs as classic cars
> Morgan
>
> > with no political down side. I urge all of you to start takeing your
> > vehicles to classic car meets.
>
> It never occured to me that the MV collectors in the US weren't allied
> to the "vintage" movement!
>
> This is where I fit in. When the nearest MV club is 5 hours driving
> distance away from you and you need to be in a club to get the club
> "plates" (historic/vintage/veteran road registration at much cheaper
> rate) then the "vintage movement" is the logical (only) choice.
>
> They do tend to raise their eyebrows, but have always readily enough
> accepted the idea. This group of collectors is so big that they usually
> have sub groups, so if you own something powered by, say, a GM engine,
> but built by a specialist company that only supplies the military, then
> you make yourself known to the GM product collectors.
> As an example, my M8 Greyhound is a Ford product with a Hercules engine,
> so I just let it be known (eg. sign on the front) that it is a Ford, it
> makes a real difference to the level of curiosity.
> Likewise my Ferret, it is a Daimler product with a Rolls Royce motor,
> mention the brand of the motor and suddenly you have a group of people
> wanting to see it. The novelty factor gets them every time.
>
> I find the vehicle collectors look at the engine/motor first, then at
> the rest of the vehicle.
> The average member of the public looks at the vehicle first,
> then might look at the motor if at all.
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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