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Nice restoration. Your second picture kinda makes it look like it has a heck of a fording exhaust! :) Cheers

Glad you got it safely home, I love the big Marine emblem on the hood! Cheers

I do not have the answer to that! It likely does mean something of that sort, but unless I can give you correct information, I'll resort to the "I dunno", :shrugs: rather than guess at it. So, further research needed. Cheers

I was having the same issue a couple of years ago. I sought and took Patracy's advice back then, found it was indeed a problem generated by my own machine, no issues since. Cheers

My lady calls the V100 "the Mistress". She says the V has to be a girl because she took so long to get ready, everything had to be just right, has so many accessories, and I spend so much time with her. We are fortunate that both seem to get along with our "others". I will gladly take you up...

What Recovery said. There are not that many M105A3s out there, so someone is likely to want it unmodified; and even with your mods, it will be big for an FJ. An M101A3 is about the right size for your Toyota (it's still pretty big!) has surge brakes and CUCV wheels on it. They are pretty...

Glad to be of some help. I carry a digital camera with me most of the time these days, for just such an opportunity as recording that M1028. My phone takes creditable pictures too. By the way, love the car in your avatar. [thumbzup] Cheers

Glad to help! I just wish I had taken more pictures back then, but to a young Marine of limited resources (I was making something like $4600 a year in 1979), film and developing were expensive. So, sorry, no pictures of vile green cars. The green was quite similar to FS 24533, which is the...

That is a cool little van. :) It is in the museum on Camp Pendleton. I drove similarly marked Dodge vans in the late 70s-80s, but they weren't nearly as cool. Cheers

The M1009 on PTA was in 383, all of the CUCVs that I saw in my time were either 383, or a few overall green ones (the 383 camo green), but those were mostly around the air wing. The white, and other civilian coloured, trucks were all your basic el-strippo versions, the bigger ones usually had...

A lot of flight line vehicles on air bases, and utility/construction types, were painted yellow, with black markings. Cheers

OD, it was an honour. On CUCV's, no on MERDEC, all arrived new in 383 (green/black/brown) camo. The first one I saw was an M1009 on the Pohakuloa Training Area in Hawaii in mid-late 1984. I actually have a picture (rather poor quality, unfortunately) of that one, sitting with a Winter Verdant...

But not with the precision! :) Many years ago, I watched the Tx NG trying to put the statue back on top of the state capitol with one of their 47's, they tried and tried, but couldn't position it accurately enough to get it on the support. With great embarassment, they finally had a LA NG...

When I was stationed in Norway in 1980 with the US Marines, all of our vehicles were painted Winter Verdant year round. During the snowy times, we painted roughly 50% of our vehicles with each Snow scheme. This meant that the green on half the trucks got painted out with water-soluble white...

As much work opening the box as putting the truck together! Cheers

Stealing implied taking stuff for personal gain, and that was a no-no. "Reallocating" meant Uncle still owned it, it just wasn't where he originally intended it to be. :) Scrounger is a semi-official position in Marine units. They were the ones who could find, or talk someone into giving...

We Marines preferred the terminology "reallocating Government resources". :) And yes, we were pretty good at it. The Army always had really cool new gear, and we saw an inter-service BnFx as a great opportunity to reallocate as much of it as possible! Poncho liners were a particularly...

You're welcome. The M880 series was produced beginning in 1976, which is post-OD. Now, the comments above do not apply to civilian type Dodge pickups used by the military, we were specifically talking about M880s. All the US services used "off the shelf" civilian vehicles, from all the major...

1974 saw the introduction of the MERDEC paint schemes (1973 if you were on Fort Hood) to replace the OD on military vehicles. During my military time I never saw an OD M880 series truck, they were all 34079 or MERDEC camo. I was a model builder at the time, so I was specifically interested in...

Outstanding! Cheers