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What's up with that rear view mirror?

I have no idea. It looks like its point two ways.

It looks like a "passing" mirror. Allows the driver a few more inches of visibility forward out from the side of the car. It's like a "periscope" in it's design.

Boy that car sure has been Victimized.

That's a new one. Thanks

I'm pretty sure that is the original paint job, considering it has about the same level of luster as my truck. An ultra rare true survivor barn find.

I can tell you what I think of the MESS but the words are not permitted here.
Would this be eleigable for VCCA judging?

Wonderful! Fabulasss! Awesome, but that #+*^%$^% Fulton sun visor spoils the entire *&(^%$#@ effect!

MrMack, that sun visor is not an accessory it's a necessity. Let me explain. The low clearance to the grounds dictates that something must be done to raise the car as it moves down the highway. Thus in order for the driver to not punch through the roof whenever it's driven over a matchstick, some lifting and cushioning effect is needed. Solution: Slap a sun visor on it.

With the rake of the visor set just right, it acts like an airfoil or airplane wing. Thus, It gives lift. Of course the lifting effect can be obtained from air shocks. You know the kind like on the rear of Denali's. But they are more expensive to acquire and install than the sun visor and, accordingly, the trade off is the ability for the owner to purchase a nice passing light and skirts. See?

Of course, that critter may be from Southern California. If so, when the picture was taken, we can assume it was merely in a crouch. We'll have to ask Mike.

BTW: Re Mike: Those VCCA hats are really great,
Charlie

I wish you guys would stop posting photos of abominations like this. I don't know how much more york my keyboard can take!! Beamer

Is that an optical illusion, or is the left front tire tilted inward at the top?

No illusion, Ray. It will straighten up as the airfoil (visor) gains speed through the air. At about 105 MPG you can look at it from the same angle and it will appear perpendicular to the road.

No Uncle Ed, those lovely hub caps will not still be there at that speed. They would have left the mother ship at about 35 or when the first road kill was encountered. We can only hope they have enough centrifugal force to carry them all the way to the Phillipines. They would make for a prized accessory on any Jeepnie (sp). Or, in the alternative, become embedded in a briar patch somewhere. Or, best yet, roll all the way to Proboscis Point in Texas where MrMack can use them to grill-up some young, sucullent armidillo or proudly display in his den. He can tell gullible folks they fell off a flying saucer he shot at when its occupants were a-coming to drag him aboard for some probing and study. Works for me.
Charlie

WOW Charlie, Your giving me FLASH BACKS! There for a second or two, I seen myself headed for Ballabago City, in the back of one of those decked out "Jeepnies." Brings back memories, some "good" and some "not so good." I guess it was the time frame I was there in, 67-69.
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Joe's 37

Lots of Jeepnies HERE.

Talk about a clusterfk for traffic! Holy Crap!!!

AWE----SO! Charlie, Would that be Charlie Chan?
..numer one son........Give me one of those decked out, tricked out jeepies, any day over a 80 year rickshah pulled by a 90 year old engine-guide-allknowing-guru-type!,,, Been there...

Hey Charlie,
You don't have to tell me about those hubcaps. Back in my day (about 16 yrs old) I had a 49 fleetline deluxe 4 dr fastback. I painted it bright blue, put on a set of portawalls and 4 bar spinner hubcaps. We called it the BLUE BOMB, man was I cool. Needless to say those hubcaps didn't take to well to sliding corners on gravel roads, I had a couple farmers bring me my hubcaps that they had found in their corn fields. Hmmm, don't know how they knew they were mine. lol I sure wish I had that old Chevy back, I would treat her a little better now!

Bill, that video was amazing. The jeepneys have gotten bigger since I was there. Thanks for sharing,
Charlie

Hey Joe, same here, ”˜67-’68, I probably staggered right by you a dozen times. I was TTY maintenance with the 1st. Mobile Communications Group at Clark AFB for a little more than a year. I wish I had some pictures of the strip back then to show people, I’ll bet it’s all gone now that Clark is abandoned. I felt like I was in some kind of time warp and had stepped back 50 years into the past. But I loved it over there, spent every night down town and learned to speak Tagalog pretty good. I got to be buddies with a bunch of Jeepney drivers and used to tune up their four bangers for free rides down town. Me and a couple of guys from the barracks had Hondas and when we rode them down town, we’d ride them right into the bar, that was about the only way you could guarantee that they wouldn’t be snatched. I can still smell the fresh bread that was being delivered and the pork on a stick roasting on the tin can of charcoal. I used to buy some of both about 04:00 on the way back to the base after a night on Field Ave. with a dozen or so San Miguels under my belt.
There were a lot of the old timers around back then that lived thru the Japanese occupation and the really treated the Americans great. I guess that’s all changed since a new generation has taken over who apparently never heard what we did for the P.I., or the rest of the world for that matter.

Boy, you got that right Charlie, I mean those bigun’s. Jeepney’s were mostly real WWII jeeps back then but some clones were starting to showing up.

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Good Lord, What small world this is. Denny, we probably drank beer together and ate "DOG ON A LOG" from the same vender, and didn't even know it. YEH, you had to check that San Miguel. Once an a while, you would get a mouse or a cockroach in the bottle.HA! Yes, that bread would soak up alot of beer.I was a crew chief with the 64th fighter intercepter squadron. We had the F-102's. Went TDY to DaNang, Bangcock, and Suwon Korea. Not a nice place,DaNang. Was there during TET!! But yeh, those WW2 jeepnies were something. Two peso's would get you from the main gate to downtown. They had them painted every color known to mankind. The one's in that video were new, compared to the one's we rode around in! Yes I did talk to an old feller there, that claims he watched Mac Arther wade ashore on that day. All the beers that night, were free talkin to him. And yes, they did appreciate all American's then. Now they would spit on you and care less! Oh Well, It's all under volcanic ash now. Or did they dig it out?? Well Denny, got to run. Maybe, we'll talk more later, Joe.

Denny, When did you leave the 1st MOB? A classmate of mine from Keesler went there right out of comm school I believe in April. He was a 2nd LT named Skip Hardenburg or Hardenberg. Do you remember who the commander was at that time? Beamer

Now come on Joe, that weren’t dog, that dog was reserved for special occasions, what you was eatin’ was some of those little critters what got caught in the traps out back in the alley. Yep ya always candled the San Meguel, worst I ever found in the bottom was some sludge. It was rumored that they pulled the water from the river at the brewery.
I joined the AF so I wouldn’t have to take a shot at any one. A lot of our group were out in the field but I spent most of my time restoring the com-trailers after they came back from the field. Being in a “mobile group” I was bound to get loaned out sometime and it happened right before Christmas of ’67. I was TDY at Ton Son Nhut working in the com-center there. I really liked Saigon and I made friends with a Philippino group called The Six Ugly’s that were playing at the Airman’s club. They finished up their set after curfew so they would hide me under the band equipment in the back of their truck and smuggle me off base. We’d continue the party down town. My tour over there was in Dec. of ’67 thru the end of Feb. of ’68. I can remember one night during TET when we were watching an outdoor movie someone set up in a basketball court up near the Main Gate. All of a sudden every light on the base went out, and they stared dropping flares all around the perimeter. There had been rumors floating around that they might try to hit the Main Gate. We didn’t have any weapons; they were in a locker at the com-center on the other side of the base. That was a good thing, cuz I would have shot me own mother or anything else that moved in the dark that night.
Never knew him Charlie, I was in a fog most of the time I was over there, couldn’t wait to get back to civilian life. The only officer I ever had any contact with was our commander at tech school. I was a red rope there and our bosses name was Kelly. He gave me a lot of lea way because I was about his age and I was the only one that would work on his Austin Healy.
DG

We were in VietNam at the same time. I was there Feb 67 to Feb 68. I left about 30 days after the TET offensive. Drafted July 66. That's been a while back. I was in the ARMY but later was in the Air National Guard in Knoxville, Tn.