Parade Ready M151 for sale!!

[TopKick]

Repro tubs and parts are available for just about any vehicle. I only ask that a seller make this known. HEPROX has done this. Personally, I believe the repro Encore body looks very nice. He is including a lot of extras, so I do not see the issue. Not wanting to split up the package is totally understandable. Besides, once the money is spent, a nice set up is there to enjoy. It is much more appealing to me than a Jeep Wrangler.

[HEPROX]

None of my business and I don't like to get involved in prices, but pgman1 is right about the reproduction body hurting the vehicle. I would think $10,000 is all the money in the world in this economy.

Whatever you do with it, good luck, but if you put it on eBay you'd better advertise it as what it is, an Encore reproduction M151 vehicle and not an original M151, otherwise the deal might kick back on you. Great looking 1/4 ton though. It certainly caught the eye of this dirty old paratrooper. The vehicle markings had me going to the point that I completely missed that it was an Encore! Really cool truck and very authentic looking color and markings.

OK I got the whole thing about the encore body and that is exactly what it is...if I was incorrect, so be it. I do not try to false advertise or anything else and with that being said, the chassis IS original. I do not have the experience of the people here and that is one of the reasons that I began to frequent this forum...To Learn and not to accused of falsely advertising anything else. It is fairly priced for the work that I have put into it contrary to the economy, the price of gas or the situation in Southwest Asia...I put my vehicle up here because I believed that I would receive serious inquires and nothing else...I would let the vehicle rot before I would take anything close to 10K...if this rant gets me banned so be it...that is all, carry on. When I was a paratrooper, other paratroopers always supported other paratroopers....

This is half the reason why I don't post much anymore. Sheesh.

...by the way, a year at Fort Bragg really does not qualify you as a paratrooper...

Idiom Definitions for 'Beating a dead horse'
If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they're beating a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work.

[Rickf]

Heprox, I am supporting you on the other forum but I really would like to know why you made that comment about a year at Bragg does not make you a paratrooper. What the F*** does it make you then? I do not know if you were in the military or not and if you were then when, It does not matter. But I can tell you that things were a LOT different in 1968! I know Bob personally and I can tell you that he did a job that had a very low survival rate for Americans and he did it for a year! He deserves a hell of a lot more respect than that comment, as does every Airborne vet from that era!!!

Rick

[mharris162]

Hello Rickf, perhaps I was to strong with heprox about the value of his jeep, which is truly nice jeep, but he went off the deep end about the whole issue. I can tell him this though. I was born at Fort Bragg on August 1st, 1968, at the Womack Army Hospital to a proud Trooper while he was serving his country as well. Glad to see you back out here posting Sir, see ya.

Mharris

[Airborne Bob]

...by the way, a year at Fort Bragg really does not qualify you as a paratrooper...

Hahahaha... Yeah, well, according to that thinking, I guess my CIB, Bronze Star and year in Vietnam in the field with the South Vietnamese Infantry doesn't qualify me as a Vietnam Vet either.

Oh well. I was so hoping for your approval.

[Airborne Bob]

I was born at Fort Bragg on August 1st, 1968, at the Womack Army Hospial to a proud Trooper while he was serving his country as well.
Mharris

Mharris,

What unit was your dad with? I was on post the day you were born. Maybe there's a slight chance I knew him.

Bragg was an interesting place back then. We always said there were two kinds of paratroopers on post. Those that had just come back and those that were in the way. There was no in between! LOL

By '68, the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam was running out of jump-qualified personnel. The 82nd was feeding the 101st and the 173rd as fast as they could but couldn't keep up with the casualties. Paratroopers over there were getting chewed up faster than they could turn them out of jump school, so nobody was spending more than a year at Bragg anyway. Then the shortage got so severe, they took the 101st off of jump status altogether and temporarily renamed the Screaming Eagles the "101st Airmobile Division." Does anyone remember that? The reason for the temporary name change was that they could no longer feed jumpers in there and they began feeding regular straight legs instead. The entire post was loaded with guys who had just come home and guys who had just gotten their orders.

I was there from February of 1968 until November, at whch time I got my orders for Vietnam, with a side trip to Jungle School and then off to the RVN in early January, 1969. I'll tell you one thing, that was a really bad time to be reporting over there. The height of the US casualties was that January as I was stepping off the plane. We lost approximately 14,000 KIA in 1968 and another 12,000 in 1969, so the apex of the casualtiy figures for the entire war was right there... 26,0000 in two years... almost half of all the names on the wall came from that time period.

So yeah, as Rick says, Ft. Bragg was a whole different place at that time. Hope your dad made it out of there okay and if he is still around, please thank him for me for his service.

[HEPROX]

76 Jumps, senior rated, 2 tours in combat, my cousin was KIA in Vietnam, My father served with 5th SFG in Vietnam, My best friend was killed in 06 in Afghanistan with 7th SFG...someone always gets pissed off when you fire back across their bow. I was born at Womack myself and retired after 20 years of service....I have more respect than you know for Vietnam Veterans...feel free to ban me from this forum or any other one that expects their members not to defend themselves when questioned...and yes I earned a CIB and and EIB....that is all, carry on

[Airborne Bob]

Well now, it's good we had this little discussion. Now that we've resolved all this, you can get back to selling your jeep. Good luck with it!

[mharris162]

Hello Bob,

Im going from memory here as I have not talked to my father about the war in so long. He did make it home ok. He was with the 101st at Bragg and transfered to the 173rd brigade so he could go to Nam. He was deployed in 1965 with the Choppin Charlie Co. and came home at the very first part of 67. When he got back to Bragg he went back into the 101st. Then when the 101st got deployed he transfered to the 82nd. and remained at Bragg until I was born.
His name is Robert L. Harris II. I also know he was an FO at some point for heavy Morts and 105's.

Mark H

[mharris162]

Oh Bob, I forgot to mention that he did make one combat drop with the 173rd under an operation name but I cannot rember what is was.
I hope I got all that right I need to speak with him again sometime to make sure Im not talking out of place here.

Mark

[HEPROX]

Junction City

22 Feb 1967, War Zone C, 2nd Bn (ABN)- 503rd Infantry "The Rock" (also famous for Operation Rock Avalanche, Kandahar Valley, Afghanistan)

Jump Manifest located/to include amended orders for Parachute Assault against an armed hostile force ; dated 24 April 1967:

http://www.173rdairborne.com/manifest.htm

AATW!

[HEPROX]

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