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Here is the Ace of Spades (replica) gun truck. 8th Group, yellow nose with yellow headlights.
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Yellow head lights were not part of the Yellow Nose ordered by 8th GP commanders. Some say that it was an experiment on trying to get better visibility on dusty roads. But the truith of the matter was that it was cool and it was all they had. Told to me by a good friend who ran a motor pool in VN said that all of the parts supplies were comming from inventories in europe. They used what they had on the shelf.saddamsnightmare said:March 6th, 2008.
The 8th Transportation Group in Vietnam ran a lot of convoys, so their trucks were generally OD with a yellow top on the hod at the front from side to side- their gun trucks were painted black with the yellow snout (See"Eve of Destruction" at Fort Eustis,Va.), but apparently the unit colonel specified the yellow nose markings and yellow headlights so he could identify his trucks from a helicopter day or night. See Dave McConnell's deuce pictures from a couple of weeks ago, the paint job is striking, and all his truck needs is the yellow headlights to be 100% on (It's 99.5% there now). Also look up Vietnam War guntrucks in search.
Sincerely,
Kyle F. McGrogan
1963 Swiss Army Unimog S404.114 Mercedes Benz
1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 Wo/W "Saddam's Nightmare" Desert Storm and Vietnam Veteran Deuce.
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