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Correct, I never have. My buddy told me he slept next to the catapult. I don't know if he's pulling my leg.
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Maybe not. Shipboard vehicles have to be diesel. MoGas [Regular] vaporizes in contact with seawater, and greates a flammable gas that stays on the surface. Diesel just floats. There are special ground support deck vehicles that move the ordnance; pump fuel; spot the planes; crash crew Fire rig; Elec Cart --charge DC and maintain AC; all swarming around on a carrier deck. Maybe with disc brakes... And a big net on the bow, and a bunji/steel cable ''lanyard'' around the back bumper to reel the truck in and reset it on the deck for the next launch... |
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I would think that the government would likely get the cheapest base model? I received a notification that the price was dropped to $4K....and the listing is gone? |
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He meant his bunk was underneath the deck by the catapult, not sleeping on the flight deck.
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They were going to use them to get to the moon before NASA. Well, we know what happened in 1969 so the Air Force sold the design to GM. I read that somewhere or made it up.
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He told me a school bus they had for ferrying the pilots from the Ready Room to the Flight Line had a 454. He was a driver one day, and caused a backfire when double-clutching that cracked the exhaust manifolds. Being Gov't Property, they took the cost of new GM exhaust manifolds out of his paycheck for a few months. * As far as CUCVs, maybe the Army and Air Force might have gone with [327] 350/350 set ups? IDK. The Navy Dept believed cheapness counts so 250/3OTT was the rule. *[Could be a Sea Story. What's the difference between a Sea Story and a Fairy Tale? Fairy Tales start out with ''...Once upon a time..." Sea Stories begin: "Thus is a true story, No $hit..."] I think the U-2 program had an El Camino with a 454 for running down the runway alongside the plane on landings. Driver radioed ground speeds to the pilot who couldn't see much runway due to the long nose. '68 C/10 Stepside w/396 for a FOLLOW ME truck? Yeah, sure... True story, no $hit... |
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https://www.westin553.net/batcat00.htm I agree, would be neat to see an armed services C10 restored to service condition. |
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There was a dark blue 68 truck like this that used to drive around St Petersburg fl in the 1980's that belonged to a barber shop . it was in the news when the owner was charged with impersonating a military vehicle , He painted a very small h on the door in front of the AIR FORCE the name of his barber shop was ( HAIR FORCE ) The local retired military men didn't like it :lol:
They may not of liked it because he wasn't a barber he was a STYLIST in the days of BIG hair . |
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In 1974, I got a military license to drive CUCVs at Cherry Point North Carolina. They were using '67 C/10s and C/1500s. Most were Marine Forest Green with yellow lettering on the doors, except for one in Navy grey/ [Wonder how that got there?]
Anyway -- I'd already owned my orange '68 C/10 Stepside w/292/SM465 for a couple years, so I was familiar with the type -- I went on a checkride with a Cpl from Motor Pool. CUCV was C/10 w/250/3OTT. As I was casually downshifting [3 to 2] thru a turn, uprevving to match the spot RPMs would be in 2nd at that speed, the Corporal starts screaming: ''Don't be hotrodding my F@%$ing truck!'' If he thought that was hotrodding, he should've been along on some other escapades. So I got the license, and on the back was stamped SOUND HORN WHEN BACKING. |
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That's probably what his dad or granddaddy yelled at him.
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You would need to include that content on the build sheet to make sure the vehicle is built correctly down the line, so the SPID just follows suit. K |
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