The Duster hull was a modified version of the M41 Walker Bulldog light tank and included most of the same automotive components including the engine and transmission.
Posted on 08/02/2004 11:23:22 PM PDT by SAMWolf
They only had 5 M-41's available for the Bay of Pigs invasion? You'd almost think Kennedy wanted the invasion to fail.
Plus since production had been stopped on the M-41 we had to get rid of the "surplus" ones somehow. ;-)
They have feather burkas? ;-)
LOL!!! ;)
LOL! Hell of a way to fight a war.
I thought the ARVN haad some M-24's, thanks for the confirmation.
((LOL))No, I just bought a couple of t-shirts and that's about it.
Can't go wrong with T-Shirts. ;-)
LOL!
Size and mass matters, ask a Yugo versus Caddy...
Lunar Treadheads!
Yugos and Geos. I cringe when I see those death traps on the road.
There was an M-41 on static display in front of the 2-69 AR Motor Pool at Harmony Church. My Platoon Sergeant had been an M41 tanker in Germany. Heard more about them than I ever cared to know.
The Duster hull was a modified version of the M41 Walker Bulldog light tank and included most of the same automotive components including the engine and transmission.
On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 03:
1753 Charles Earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
1770 Frederik Willem III, king of Prussia (1797-1840)
1811 Elisha Graves Otis inventor (safe elevator)
1820 William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1824 William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1851 Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset temperance leader
1867 Stanley Earl Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
1872 Haakon VII Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway
1887 Rupert Brooke British WW I poet (1914)
1894 Harry Heilmann SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
1900 Ernie Pyle correspondant during WW II
1900 John T Scopes Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
1901 John Stennis (Sen-D-Miss)
1902 Habib Bourguiba 1st president of Tunisia
1904 Clifford D Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
1905 Dolores Del Rio Mexico, actress (What Price Glory?)
1918 James MacGregor Burns political writer (The Lion & the Fox)
1920 P.D. James mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
1923 Anne Klein fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
1924 Leon Uris US, novelist (Exodus, QB VII)
1926 Tony Bennett Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
1930 James Komack NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1931 Alex Cord actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
1935 Georgi S Shonin cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
1935 Richard D Lamm (Gov-D-Colo)
1940 Lance Alworth Houston Tx, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys)
1940 Martin Sheen actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
1950 John Landis director (Twilight Zone)
1952 Jay North North Hollywood Calif, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
1953 Ian Bairnson Shetland Isles Scotland, guitarist (Alan Parsons Project, Pilot)
1976 Sarybel Velila, Miss Universe-Puerto Rico (1996)
LOL! Platoon Sgts, they could get carried away with their "stories".
Now "Dusters", I saw a lot of! Always likes seeing those on the berm line.
I do have to admit, had a Geo Metro once.
For being a 3 cylinder it had zip to it.
So I did get it to move out of teh way when I needed it to do so.
Liek when a Yellow Freight driver doing 40 in a 65 zone got angry at being passed and tried to ram me, I floored it and zipped past him doing 80 (And accelerating!).
So now, whenever I see a Yellow Fright semi driving by, I mutter "best Drivers in the business, or best DOOBIES in the business?"
I have yet to see one of their drivers navigating his vehicles like he knows what he's doing.
But, the Metro is a deathtrap.
The trick is to be maneuvering enough to not get hit.
Lunar Treadheads!
LOL!!!!!!!!
Hail To Thee, Fat Person
I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat.
Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service.
When I was a child, my mother said to me,
"Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe."
And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of.
So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day.
Because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe.
But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.
So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny or in some other way normal--
When you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person,
Do not scoff at that fat person. Oh no!
Take off your hat. Hold it over your heart.
Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice say to him,
"Hail to thee, fat person!
You kept us out of war!"
Alan Sherman
Darksheare's Geo. One liter of raw power, 3 cylinders of asphalt-tearing terror on thirteen-inch rims. It's stock, but it pushes the barely 2000 pounds of Geo around with AUTHORITY. He's always catching mopeds and 18-wheelers by surprise.
Yeah, my car's got all the options except for the last cylinder. LOL!
Well, my current car is a '95 Jetta GL, with teh 2.0 liter engine..
Outperforms the Metro anyday of the week without even trying.
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