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Louie, your insight from an operators viewpoint has been invaluable to me (and others), I love hearing your input. My boys are well. Davey, the oldest just came home from his second, and last, combat deployment. His enlistment is up in February, and due to the Marine Corps drawdown, his MOS...

Later "standard" hatches? My late parts manual shows them as one piece units, but an early one mentions that the hinges are part of the kit, but separate and needing to be fitted to the vehicle (though the diagram shows them complete). One of the current V restorer/owners had some front hatch...

I may have misunderstood the Saigon rebuild bit. That information came to me from another, who was looking at old invoices and found my hull number. Since the address was a depot in Saigon, I made the assumption (perhaps rashly) that the work was done there. All of the parts involved would...

Louie, I saw it wasn't there, but that went on in production for quite a while. :) My V is early mid-production (around a third of the way through the total production run), it was built with flat driver hatches, no Molotov cocktail 'pagoda', and a few other details which it has now. I make...

Since I spend quite a bit of time leaning in through that side hatch during servicing, I imagine not having it would be a most royal PIA. While using said hatch, I did learn not to hook up the batteries whilst touching the hatch edge with my sweaty upper arm! I don't think anyone else liked...

Many interesting features - major items of note are squared wheel wells, very early style turret, one piece rear hatch, pioneering kit where side hatch is on later models. Many detail differences inside. Unique amongst preserved examples (that I know of). B3.3T, do you know what the bracket...