Ex-MVCC VP Jeff DeGraff called to suggest we do a CUCV display next April. Why not? There are quite a few of these around and they are an affordable military truck that deserves attention. We will have a People's Choice Contest and the cash awards is sponsored by Dave Wang from ARMYTRUCKS INC!
For those who don't know much about these trucks, the Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicles, pronounced CUCK-vees and sometimes known as "Cut-Vees" were built in the 1980s-2000s by General Motors. Militarizing civilian trucks to create low cost, rear area support vehicles began with the Kaiser Jeep M-715 series and continued with Dodge pickup-based trucks built in 1976-1977 as the M880 4x4 and M890 4x2 series. All were to replace Gamma Goats and M151 variants, then the HMMWV. They were relatively inexpensive and freed up the purpose-built military trucks for tactical use. CUCVs were based on 2 and 4 door pickups, 2 and 4 door SUVs such as Blazer and Suburban, and there were ambulances. Near the end they evolved into the Light Service Support Vehicle with some being built by AM General.
Jeff will be POC for this CUCV/LSSV display on Friday April 22, 2016 and he would love to hear if you can bring your truck. Any condition! Get on his list at (559) 441-3238.
Someone floated the concept of staging a massed MV photo op at the Spring meet in the display field. This could be divided into several "shoots" with jeeps first, then medium trucks, then large trucks/armor. Anybody interested to organize this? Maybe do it Friday afternoon? Contact me via email or PM and we can make a new post about it rather than use this thread.
Spring 2016 Camp Delta at Tower Park Showcase Announcement
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