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Valance, thank you for the good photos of all the markings! [thumbzup] I keep a file on USMC vehicle markings, trying to document the standard and any deviations therefrom. Quick question - are the light coloured USMC markings tan or yellow? I can't really tell from the photos. Neither...

1 - Texas Independence Day parade, my kids crewing the V100 while I followed in the green M931. Ahead are Pawnshop's M1009 and M1028, and Quonsethut's gun truck. 2 - Heading home from an event on a murky afternoon, Reloader64 and his son driving Reloader's two M35s, me following in the...

Another QEAM that will work with those brackets is the AB-1386U. I have one for my S788 shelter. The mast goes up/down using a speed-wrench type handle. Cheers

Rayzer has this one well in hand, so no need to cast a vote there. Tow4's setup is also cool (sorry, I'm partial to the big stuff!) and I felt it was being neglected. Cheers

Check it over carefully! An acquaintance picked up an M931A2 off Ft Hood that had "Do not start" chalked on the drivers door. It had some minor fire damage in the cab. He had it towed down to my place to work on it. After messing with it for a bit, he couldn't see what the problem might be...

I have a mount like that, but with the H24 cradle. I do not have the part that bolts to the Humvee to mount it on (or a Humvee :-|) What do you want measurements of? Cheers

Here is the kind of panel I have installed on a Humvee. And yes, they put the panel in the bracket upside down, despite the fact that it has instructions painted on it! Maybe they meant to do it that way, since it looks like the one on the further green Humvee is also inverted. This appears...

You are exactly right on this. Trying not to be too technical here - there is X amount of energy that the train is going to impart on the police vehicle (and vice versa, but the energy being applied Tahoe-to-train is meaningless in this instance!). How that energy transfer happens is very...

I have a DVD copy of an early 1960s Army film where they test various vehicles, including an M548. The video includes the M548, a Gama Goat, and an M656 8x8 all swimming in a lake. I'll see if I can dig it out and get the title, I imagine it is on the interweb somewhere. Cheers

When I was a collision reconstructionist, I was invited by Union Pacific to ride in the cab of their E8-powered business train to get the driver's point of view on level crossings. We did a short trip, about 85 miles, through Austin and all the other towns between there and the other side of...

Here are some photos of a set I have. These are the type that would go on the sides of a Humvee behind the back doors, or on other vehicles. The bracket mounts to the vehicle, the panels then slide into the bracket. Cheers

A buddy of mine picked this up for me at Goodwill in Austin the other day for $34; a complete PG-7 sight (for the RPG-7 launcher), in the case with all the accessories. Likely someone's bring-back from the 'recent unpleasantness'. He called and asked "You want it?" Well, yes...

No, the front turn signals are on separate wires from the brake lights. The problem at the back is that the brake light and turn signal share the same bulb. Cheers

One more simple option - you can run a wire from each of the front turn signals to yellow lights at the rear. Cheers

Nice! What are those thingies on the roof? Cheers

No CUCV I have ever been in (3 of my own, and around 8 belonging to others) would park the wipers, all would stop wherever they were when you turned off the switch. :) Cheers

For clarification - 34052 "Marine Green" is the overall colour used prior to camouflage. First camouflage applied in the post-34052 era was 4-colour MERDC, mid '70s (Winter Verdant was the most common scheme with the Marines) Mid-1980s on, camo (unless it is 686 tan) would be the 383 used by...

Rustoleum flat black looks good on application, but over say a year (if it's parked outside) the black goes to grey which gets progressively lighter as time goes by, eventually becoming very light grey. Same goes for high temp barbeque paint. The camo black costs more, but stays black longer...

Back in 1979-mid '80s, our Mules (USMC) were a mix of older green ones and newer MERDEC ones, mostly Winter Verdant as that seemed to be the almost standard camo for Marine vehicles. In Panama, we did use the Jungle scheme with predominantly green on vehicles, but I don't specifically remember...