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I've been tooling around my property on my M37 a few times but hadn't really taken it for a spin in public yet.
The other day my fire company got toned out for a pretty good structure fire and when it was all done we had all sorts of muddied up gear that we put on the side to clean.
We had some really good weather the other day so I decided I'd go down to the firehouse and start cleaning gear. Since the weather was nice I figured I'd take the M37.
Boy that thing is fun to drive. It's slow, loud and big but definitely fun. It also seems to run better, shift easier and sound better after it's warmed up a bit.
Once I had it parked at the firehouse and I started working, I noticed that lots of people walking or driving by would stare at it. I also noticed that lots of older men would take -long- -hard- looks at it and a few came over to talk. The converstaion usually went like this:
Me: How ya' doin'?
Older Guy: This yours?
Me: Yup.
Older Guy: I used to drive one of these back in the day.
Me: Really?
Older Guy: Oh yea, I ran three dinks off a pontoon bridge bridge outside Da Nang once with one of these.
And that was a fairly typical statement from the older crowd. One guy in my company is a Korea vet and said that his advice for starting in the winter was "to pull the choke all the way out to the tailgate". Also, I am relaibly informed that an even dozen Seoul hookers can fit in the back if the troop seats are folded up.
So that was my first public foray.
I figured I'd try a slightly longer trip and took it to work a couple nights ago. I parked in the nursing home parking lot and more than one resident regaled me with their M37 stories. Interestingly, thw day supervisor came by to admire the vehicle and casually mentioned that her Dad has a 1954 Jeep at his hunting camp he uses for plowing. While I had no interest in jeeps prior to getting this M37, now.......so I filed that little tidbit away for future reference.
Did have some trouble getting the vehicle started in the early morning cold. Had to recharge the batteries and then they started fine. I'm still getting used to fine tuning this whole Choke/Throttle/Starter thing. I am thinking I am going to replace one of the batteries though; right now there is one honking huge truck battery and a small automobile battery. If I drop in another truck battery I can pick up an extra 200 Cold Cranking Amps or so and I suspect that may be useful.
The other day my fire company got toned out for a pretty good structure fire and when it was all done we had all sorts of muddied up gear that we put on the side to clean.
We had some really good weather the other day so I decided I'd go down to the firehouse and start cleaning gear. Since the weather was nice I figured I'd take the M37.
Boy that thing is fun to drive. It's slow, loud and big but definitely fun. It also seems to run better, shift easier and sound better after it's warmed up a bit.
Once I had it parked at the firehouse and I started working, I noticed that lots of people walking or driving by would stare at it. I also noticed that lots of older men would take -long- -hard- looks at it and a few came over to talk. The converstaion usually went like this:
Me: How ya' doin'?
Older Guy: This yours?
Me: Yup.
Older Guy: I used to drive one of these back in the day.
Me: Really?
Older Guy: Oh yea, I ran three dinks off a pontoon bridge bridge outside Da Nang once with one of these.
And that was a fairly typical statement from the older crowd. One guy in my company is a Korea vet and said that his advice for starting in the winter was "to pull the choke all the way out to the tailgate". Also, I am relaibly informed that an even dozen Seoul hookers can fit in the back if the troop seats are folded up.
So that was my first public foray.
I figured I'd try a slightly longer trip and took it to work a couple nights ago. I parked in the nursing home parking lot and more than one resident regaled me with their M37 stories. Interestingly, thw day supervisor came by to admire the vehicle and casually mentioned that her Dad has a 1954 Jeep at his hunting camp he uses for plowing. While I had no interest in jeeps prior to getting this M37, now.......so I filed that little tidbit away for future reference.
Did have some trouble getting the vehicle started in the early morning cold. Had to recharge the batteries and then they started fine. I'm still getting used to fine tuning this whole Choke/Throttle/Starter thing. I am thinking I am going to replace one of the batteries though; right now there is one honking huge truck battery and a small automobile battery. If I drop in another truck battery I can pick up an extra 200 Cold Cranking Amps or so and I suspect that may be useful.