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Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:36 am
by Son of a gun-ner
Hello fellow forum dwellers
February will see the first ever Tank Of The Month tankless.
All we want to see is Trucks.
It doesn't matter what they started life as, a cheap Heng Long truck, to an expensive kit, they could have started out as a pile of plasticard or scrap from your recycle bin, it matters not. What matters is that they look like a MILITARY TRUCK of some kind, and they are Radio Controlled.
A truck that started life as a truck and was turned into something non truck like is not a truck anymore.
Usual TOTM rules apply, which means last months winner is sadly excluded. And just like past winning Tiger1's in the Tiger1 Of The Month, past winning Trucks will be excluded from this February's Truck Of The Month.
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:25 am
by Son of a gun-ner
Just to add, February's TOTM is about wheels that make direct contact with the ground, so, no half tracks please
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:35 am
by lmcq11
Jeeps are ok ?
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:37 am
by Son of a gun-ner
lmcq11 wrote:Jeeps are ok ?
Is a Jeep classed as a truck
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:10 am
by lmcq11
Son of a gun-ner wrote:lmcq11 wrote:Jeeps are ok ?
Is a Jeep classed as a truck
Yeah, it’s a light truck
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:01 pm
by Son of a gun-ner
Hmmm, I think you're pulling my leg
I've done multiple searches under "military Jeep Classification," "military Jeep Definition," "smallest military Trucks," and variations on those themes, and all I get back is Light Utility Vehicle.
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:25 pm
by silversurfer1947
The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, ?1?4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep. From Wikipedia. Remember Jeep was only a nickname for a long time.
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:34 pm
by Son of a gun-ner
Thank you Richard
I never noticed that wiki offering, although to be honest, I was looking for other sources that wiki would have got their information from.
I guess we'll have to allow a Jeep then
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:57 pm
by Jimster
It’s been called both truck and car. When I license my Jeeps I’m asked if I prefer a truck or car tag. That really helps doesn’t it?
Re: Not long to go till February's Truck Of The Month.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:04 pm
by Son of a gun-ner
Jimster wrote:It’s been called both truck and car. When I license my Jeeps I’m asked if I prefer a truck or car tag. That really helps doesn’t it?
Ahh, that's different, and it was started many years ago to get around their poor fuel economy, some modern SUV's were given truck status to get around the fact they gave truck fuel consumption when the green rules were getting stricter, and they couldn't upset car manufacturers when they donate so much money for political causes