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Carter,
It looks like Red trucks are all the rage right now.......I just picked one up a few weeks ago. I'll be driving mine around until this fall when I'll start the restoration. Looks like you have a good candidate to work with.
It looks like Red trucks are all the rage right now.......I just picked one up a few weeks ago. I'll be driving mine around until this fall when I'll start the restoration. Looks like you have a good candidate to work with.
1952 M37 W/W Rebuild @ 59% complete
Engine rebuild @ 95% complete
1985 M1009, 1990 M101A2, 2008 M116A3 Pioneer tool trailer
MVPA # 24265
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NRA Cert. Personal Protection Pistol Instructor
NRA Cert. RSO
Class III RSO/KCR
Engine rebuild @ 95% complete
1985 M1009, 1990 M101A2, 2008 M116A3 Pioneer tool trailer
MVPA # 24265
NRA Life Member
NRA Cert. Personal Protection Pistol Instructor
NRA Cert. RSO
Class III RSO/KCR
Hadn't thought about that, I did a CJ2A jeep in that years ago that looked real good. So it's one vote for camo. Good idea!k8icu wrote:I say painted it MERC 4 color cammo...I don't think I've seen a M37 done like that....
Had an M37 I painted desert tan in the early 70s long before the desert war that now has produced a lot of simular paint schemes.
MERC camo might be the answer. Thanks
Carter
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That's the problem, no data plates, in fact no glove box door eitherLifer wrote:What does the data plate say? If it says US Army or USMC, I'd go green. If it says USAF, definately go blue. If it says US Navy, gray would be good. Of course, by the late '70s everyone was using one shade of green or another and many were using 4-color NATO camo. The choice is all yours.

Carter
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I saw the pix of yours on the SS site, nice looking truck, another good candidate for rehab.T. Highway wrote:Carter,
It looks like Red trucks are all the rage right now.......I just picked one up a few weeks ago. I'll be driving mine around until this fall when I'll start the restoration. Looks like you have a good candidate to work with.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/m37/37926- ... k-m37.html
I had first thought about just touching up the red but I am just not sure I want to do that as they still look like fire trucks. If I had the tank, pumps and all the other firefighting stuff that would be different and it would stay that way as a reminder what a lot of these rigs did after leaving military life. I've got a long way to go with bunches of work to do before I need to decide what to paint it.
Carter
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[quote="Carterit just cccured to me that I could do a black and white checkerboard pattern like a flightline "Follow Me" jeep. [/quote]
I don't know about the other services, but the "Follow Me" checkerboard on AF vehicles was done on a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood bolted/screwed to uprights in the front stake pockets on pickup trucks. 4-wheel drive not usually being necessary on flightlines, these were usually civvy-style trucks, but if you want to do it with an M37, go for it.
I don't know about the other services, but the "Follow Me" checkerboard on AF vehicles was done on a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood bolted/screwed to uprights in the front stake pockets on pickup trucks. 4-wheel drive not usually being necessary on flightlines, these were usually civvy-style trucks, but if you want to do it with an M37, go for it.

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And get Mel Gibson to drive it when he is sober.
What's the Air America logo look like?
The city of Havre de Grace had several of them in white and they looked sharp, I had a chance to bid on one but I was busy restoring my other one and had no money then.

What's the Air America logo look like?
The city of Havre de Grace had several of them in white and they looked sharp, I had a chance to bid on one but I was busy restoring my other one and had no money then.
Carter
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If I can get it to work, here's what the Air America logo looked like:
Drat! I can't post pics on here!
If you "google" Air America, you'll find a number of sites, several of which show their logo. Basically, it's a squared off shield, red at the top, blue at the bottom, and white in the middle with "Air America" on the white band, and the shield superimposed over a pair of vertical wings.[/img][/url]
Drat! I can't post pics on here!

If you "google" Air America, you'll find a number of sites, several of which show their logo. Basically, it's a squared off shield, red at the top, blue at the bottom, and white in the middle with "Air America" on the white band, and the shield superimposed over a pair of vertical wings.[/img][/url]
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I found this Lifer, white is an easy color to paint and I'm sure Rick Larsen could do the logo. Great idea. thanks.Lifer wrote:If I can get it to work, here's what the Air America logo looked like:
Drat! I can't post pics on here!![]()
If you "google" Air America, you'll find a number of sites, several of which show their logo. Basically, it's a squared off shield, red at the top, blue at the bottom, and white in the middle with "Air America" on the white band, and the shield superimposed over a pair of vertical wings.[/img][/url]

Carter
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Different is putting it mildly, extremely unusual is another way of saying no one else has one.
I have a long way to go before that but I think that's what I'll do Charlie, great idea
. Thanks, you will be the first I'll send the pix to when I get it done.


Carter
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