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I think you could be on to something. You could start a whole new trend. Wait until the WWII reenactors find out. It will change the whole hobby. Could rat rod Jeeps be far behind?
A local flea market is a great place for old magazines and US beer cans. I recently picked up a bunch of Life magazines, 1960's, for .25 a piece. I can send you some belted dummy 7.62. M60 parts are crazy money, though. I just sold a complete top cover for $600.00. That chair has got to go, though.
Gerald, your M114A1E1 is well beyond a restoration. You brought it up way past that. Its like "Presidential" Someone is going to end up with one amazing APC.
Not the same company, as stated a dozen times. The HMMWV is built by AM General, as was the Hummer H!. The goofy H2 and H3 are Hummer/GM. Who cares what happens to Hummer.
$1200 for IRACinc replica vs. $5500.00+ for semi. Replica: no worries where you go or who messes with it, one quarter the weight, doesn't matter if it sits in the rain. To some, a semi isn't real, anyway.
It was just announced the US Army will indeed be moving the Ft. Knox-based Patton Armor Museum to Ft. Benning, GA beginning Sept 2010. When the Armor Center anounced its move to Benning, it was stated the museum would stay at Ft. Know where it has been for 60 years. But they changed their minds.
Steel Soldiers has a large meet at Haspin every summer. 800+ acres of every kind of trail, hills, and mud know would be a fun place for a T-34 or BTR-40.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/steel-soldiers-rally/42980-haspin-2010-a.html
Good chance the 718's you see are in fact British-built models that are in wide service with all British forces. These were built in Guilford before the production was moved to South Africa after several corporate takeovers. The Land Rovers sound like the remaining Ranger RAV's(Ranger Assault...