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My two cents says don't change the color: - Just get yourself a BIGGER fender!

Maybe we should levy fines for picture-less posts. And then use all the proceeds for...I don't know: - Maybe posting pictures!? :shrugs:

Hey shockwave, that's a fine looking truck, and because you look new around here we're saying: - Welcome, from here in Virginia.

Depending on which, one would be a LOT more driving than the other. :mrgreen: (hey, JUST kidding)

Maybe your presence alone is helping keep everyone around you honest, who knows!? :shrugs: You could start wearing dark sunglasses, and every now and then tip them down and look any questionable folk straight in the eye!

So both of those are in "working" red, snd: - Working red is all good! [thumbzup]

Red is OK, too; it speaks to the heritage. Probably recycled from military service as fire department vehicles, right?

I don't see anything wrong with it either: - It might not be standard mil-spec or anything, but nobody's "keeping score", right!? - It looks great. [thumbzup]

Hey mperry you look kind of new around here, so from here in Virginia: - Welcome :beer:

It's probably true. But what the Russian manufacturing lacked in Quality Control it more than made-up in volume, and that just overwhelmed the German war machine. I don't know the numbers but if I remember right, towards the war's end the Russians were pumping out tanks like they were water.

I guess I should know but I confess that I don't: - What is "RTV", some self-sealing mastic of some kind or something? Also who won the game!?

Your rig is looking good, especially situated up there in all of that rugged Alaska bush country. [thumbzup]

Stalin was almost as horrible for the Russians as Hitler was, but it was lucky he was the S.O.B. that he was considering the S.O.B. that was Adolf Hitler. If you're in the market for a good read, try "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor. It's an eye-opener.

A lot of what-ifs in history, and none of them really useful, BUT: - If Hitler hadn't made his blunder into Russia - And also if the invasion hadn't been delayed in bailing out Mussolini like it was Then we likely never would have gotten that toe-hold on Normandy. The Russians got us there.

Good stuff! Part of the amazing story of the Russian response to Hitler's Barbarossa (the 1941 invasion) was how the Russians literally packed up their manufacturing factories (lock, stock, and barrel) and shipped them by rail out of reach of the invading German Wehrmacht; then un-packed them...

Is your weather going all funny and squirelly up your way, or is it pretty much they way it's always been for you all (you know +/-)?

I was just reading in the local newspaper here yesterday (yeah, I admit: old school) that we use sugar beet solution here in DC for winter road treatment, lasts longer on the roads and doesn't corrode like the salts. Check it out; here's the link...

I recall reading some comments about the maintenance nightmare that comes with fording (for components like wheel bearings, especially in water with any kind of silt or grit suspended in it). Are you planning any fording in your rig, or is it more about being able to if you wan to?

My favorite part of the videos was the soundtrack on that middle of the three. Wonder who that band was; greatest version of both tunes I think I've ever heard before. Great post, thanks a million! [thumbzup]

Those look like they're "working" mules who get regular real ride time; is that right?