Re: [MV] Event Rules

DDoyle9570@aol.com
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:13:30 EDT

I have a friend I've known 15 or so years who reenacts as Wermacht. He owns
WWII German motorcycle (beautifully restored) and repro 222 armored car. He
is no more Nazi, skinhead etc than Audie Murphy.
He displays with the rest of us and his field gear, vehicles etc make
interesting comparison to the US equipment.
He & I have talked in the past at length about SS. From what he says, a lot
of the SS reenactors are shunned by the German regular army reenactors, as
the regulars do not agree with the thoughts associated with the SS.

As to the repro 222, it has gotten a little flak, but personally I don't
think it is many steps removed from an MB with repro tub and fenders, etc. As
a PLUS at our rallys etc we try to prominently display his equipment as to
the layman, a CCKW doesn't look that different from an M800 series truck, and
they pass on by with the "must be National Guard drilling attitude", put the
222 and another guys Kubel repro by the road and they obviously don't belong
to the guard, we get a lot of passers by stopping that way.

David

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