Got my first MV 25 years ago. Still have that one and 6 others and out of seven, 5 are running. they are not 100 point restorations, but they go and stop and are green or variations there of. Some need cosmetics but they are for the most part dependable runners. When I want to go they start and off we go and it is fun every time.
Nothing better than a vet coming up and relating stories about their time in this vehicle.
When I first got the M54 about 3 years ago, was going with a group of WW2 vehicles and we were meeting at a park and ride. There was group of guys meeting in that park and ride for something else. When I pulled in with the 5T, over they came to check it out. The WW2 guys were looking and wondering why that truck and not theirs. It seems a couple of the men had gotten the Army Drivers licenses in the 5T and came to listen to the whistle.
hang in there, it will get better.
P