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Gidday guys,
* new guy here so be gentle.
Am writing from way down the bottom of the pacific- in New Zealand, quaint little place your Marines were stationed in before
the Pacific Campaign's fight back.

I'm a partner in a small armoured museum , we have a Mk 10 Chieftain, a couple of Sabre/ Scorpion CVRTs (light tanks) an OT64, OT90,
43 Ford GPW and a LVT4 from the Pacific we're restoring, but by far the most vexing is our most recent acquisition,
a 1965 M37 B1 3/4 ton Dodge.

It was bought from Kuna, Idaho to New Zealand in 2010 by its former owner and bought by us last week. The only thing is, its bright yellow.
Underneath the yellow is olive drab and here's the thing. The version we got was that this vehicle was an O/D USMC vehicle in Vietnam and was
then issued to the Air Force, dunno about stateside but here, I've been in our Army, Navy and Air Force and that crossover of vehicles, here at least, would be unusual?

We were further told that it was painted yellow because it was used as one of those 'follow me' type vehicles but I haven't been able to find any images anywhere to support
that. With the vast knowledge base here, I was wondering if any one has any info on all yellow M37s, other than those used by civilian fire fighting organisations, which
seem t be the most common type of yellow M37s. All I've been able to find is blue USAF and RCAF versions, I even found one used by our Kiwi troops in Vietnam, but no all yellow.

I've attached an image for reference, any help appreciated. Ok, that didn't work, got this message Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached. But happy to email anyone
a pic,

cheers
Mac

Yellow from the USAF would indicate a follow-me vehicle in flight line yellow

Gidday Tbone
Hey many thanks for that, I spend a week searching and in just a few hours someone is able to show
verification we may have a legit finish on our Dodge
cheers
Kiwi Mac

Hi Mac,
My name is Wayne and I live in Toowoomba Australia. I read you post today regarding your yellow M37 which is very interesting.
You mentioned in your article that the Kiwis operated an M37 in Vietnam, would you happen to have a photo of this machine.
The reason for my enquiry is that my wife and I are in the final stages of rebuilding our XM506 (M37) and shipping her to Istanbul,
Then driving to Normandy on an ANZAC tour and are intending in putting some New Zealand markings on her. We do understand that
the M37 wasn't used by the Kiwis but we will be the only ones representing NZ in our group.
Kind Regards,
Wayne.

I got the pics of your trucks progress Wayne, looks awesome and puts mine to shame, the Sheehan boys would be proud of what you have done

MM

I think I still have a NOS yellow tail light around here somewhere

Hi Wayne
Sorry in delay of reply- we've been on road with work.
Actually, Kiwis did use M37s, in Vietnam, acquired off Yanks, have seen one image so far with a Kiwi painted on door. How's the ANZAC Normandy trip going/ or how did it go?

We're restoring ours at present, was yellow and marked US Defence dept Civilian contractor, under that was green USAF and under that Green USMC, all with markings, we've taken it back to original USMC.
Tried uploading image but board attachment quota full


cheers
Andrew

Hi Ric
Ref the yellow NOS tail light, we're currently in process of restoring it to original USMC green now
We were going to do it yellow but there were two different yellows as well, one used by USAF on it and then she was
painted another yellow while used by a DOD civilian contractor.

Am trying to post pics now.

cheers
mac
NZ