Quality of these shows Chieftain won't have to worry if his employment at WG ever ends. He has the quality and followers to become the Tank Jesus by himself.
Lee Palmer I'm surprised that he didn't bump into him there. When I first stared watching Forgotten Weapons, it took something like 10 videos before I realized that Ian wasn't actually an employee of RIA.
My father joined an Ohio National Guard Cavalry unit in the 1930’s. They were half equipped with horses, half M3 scout cars. They used the M3’s until they were replaced with M8 armored cars and Stuart tanks, which they took to France. I have photos he took with M3’s in them...his unit carried the .50 cal, and two skate mount Browning water cooled .30’s. One photo has the horses field corralled with the M3’s parked around them.Their fine cavalry horses were given to the Coast Guard, which used them to patrol the coast of California after Pearl Harbor. I guess there were some sad cavalrymen that day. The MG tripods were a necessity, since they practiced setting up roadblocks and ambushes.
@@memikell Your statement of fact, true or not, does not fit my narrative of contrasting former American industrial prowess to modern urban blight and decay. I therefore choose to ignore your comment. To summarize, ignoring you. Not responding. Won't acknowledge. Truth = Hate.
Yes those split rims can be lethal. The first time I worked on one and forgot to let the air out and I heard the split rim move just slightly scared me good. I never forgot again over the twenty years I spent in the service.
I have teenagers. I’d probably go with an M1919. Smaller size, and lower weight. Remember, if you are going to give your kids a weapon, make it crew served. Unlike with an individual weapon a crew served weapon will teach them team work, time management, conflict resolution and basic mechanical skills.
A double drop frame is one where the center is lower than the front and rear sections that hold the axles. A good example are the lowboy trailers that are used to haul around bulldozers and steamrollers. The WW2 Dragon Wagon pulled a lowboy trailer. It's use on the M3 allowed the crew compartment to set lower so the body would have a lower profile and lower it's center of gravity.
Not in San Fran or California in general he won't. Now, Texas or Ohio, or states that aren't hilariously broken in terms of following the goddamn constitution? Oh yeah, you could roll down main street with those babies.
As far as I know, he could legally drive it in S.F. presuming the .50's are disabled. On the other hand, doing so would be tantamount to advertising to any gang out there that he has two .50's for them to come steal.
A buddy of mine had one of these. It's the most fun you can have at 20 mph! Everybody in the neighborhood decides that you have right-of-way -- always!
Loved the sound when you closed the driver's door. Heavy metal. I've got this one in my rapidly growing stash of 1/35 kits and this vid is another jewel. It's much more interesting than most of the usual walkaround videos. We need more videos on wheeled military vehicles. Keep 'em coming.
Shout out from County Tyrone , Ireland. I am loving your videos ..... and also nice to see someone from Ireland on youtube. Keep up the good work Chieftain!
The "in and out" light switch you talk of was a standard part and very common at the time. It was notably found on Willys Jeeps and other trucks of the period.
How this vehicle could be accepted into service without Door Glass Regulator Handles is well and truly beyond me, not even the Double Drop Type Channel Section Frame comes close to redeeming this feature. However the Standard Type Steering Mechanism is a decent runner up.
I bought one three years ago (1942) fun vehicle but a bit of a pig to drive, hint - use both brakes when stopping, one foot on the brake peddle and one hand for the emergency brake, make sure your exhaust pipe is well wrapped as it will really heat up the driver if not.
Double drop channel section means that the frame bends upwards to accommodate both front and rear axles (a typical truck frame) and the rails are of C-shaped pressed steel, as opposed to box-type or I-beam. Again typical practice today, but not so universal back then. And box type is still found on premium vehicles.
I really like the brief cuts at the side when the Chieftain refers to things that we may not see clearly due to the camera angle, like when he mentioned the wingnuts for the windscreen. Hope they are carried over to the normal Inside the Hatch videos as well.
I didn't mind it either, the first dozen times I heard it repeated on loop on every video. I guess we all have our limitations. If someone is explaining something, I'd rather hear the voice and words. I've never been in a lecture/class where dull background music was playing the whole time. If I want to listen to music, I turn on some music.
Yeah, doesn’t help that it really doesn’t match Chief’s lecture style either. His medium paced talks and witty remarks don’t really go well with an epic, sick bass solo.
We frequently get noting for months and months and now all this at once! Thank you... until it stops... P.S. just going to add to those who think that a sit down with Ian in a vehicles expert meets small arms expert discussion would be interesting to watch. but then I watched 25 minutes of paint drying 4 months ago, and Ian most days, so maybe biased.
In the early 70's I spent some time in D Troop ( the ground troop) of 8/1 Air Cav Squadron, part of the 194th Brigade at Ft Knox that supported the Armor School. Each platoon had a bunch of Jeeps, M151 with a M60 on a pintle mount behind the front seat and a PC-25 radio mounted on top of a rear fender ( I no longer remember how many jeeps), another M151 with a recoilless rifle ( again I don't remember if it was 105 or 106, but I do remember it had a .50 caliber spotting rifle on it) and a 5/4 truck with a 81mm mortar ( and the platoon Sgt ). The only situation i know of where the low man on the totem pole fired the main weapon. At the same time I read that the Army was testing off road motorcycles for reconnaissance, something that made at lot of sense to me at the time since neither the M113's or M114's or even the Sheridan's armor couldn't protect the crew from mg fire, might as well be a harder to see smaller target able to hug the ground or bug out faster. It's the radio that was our real weapon. Nowadays, give me a Onewheel.
The tire rims maybe two-piece, but I believe they are in fact Bead-lock types going by the inordinate number of bolts around the perimeter of the rim itself. A Split-type is shown inset at the 5:26 mark.
Or Philly, Charlotteville or imagine the M3 cruising it's birthplace Detroit? Now you'd NEED that Soviet 76mm gun on your Lend-Lease Whitey! Pleased to meet ya with the meat to please ya! ooo-roo from Down Under.
Double drop channel-section frame means that the area in between the axels in the frame is lowered and frame is made of channel steel. This is still a common form of truck frame.
I’ve seen this thing in Rockford Illinois as part of a reenactment unit except it had no guns on it it had desert camouflage and a Star on a blue circle with a small red circle in the center of the star
Double dropped frame: These, and halftracks have a frame within a frame. The frame is a common “U” channel type, but they put another “U” channel frame in it. About the gauges, point to any gauge in one of these or a halftrack and think $1200.00 (original USA type)
fun fact. all of the Armor on this thing and the M3 Halftrack is Face Hardened, now although some of you might know that FHA is no more effective than RHA against APCBC but against Solid shot it is, which is exactly what the 7.92x57 Mauser armor piercing bullets are. so even though the armor on this thing is 6.4mm all round it's effective thickness against Small arm AP bullets is more like 9-10mm. I mean the M5 Halftrack was designed to save cost by not face hardening the armor, so they made it thicker 8mm thick but was said to actually be less effective despite this been able to be penetrated at 300 yards opposed to 200 yards for the face hardened variants at 6.4mm (also just as a bit extra the german halftracks like the KFZ 251 were also not face hardened, so even though their armor was angled at about 35 degree's on the side sponson, the effective armor on the US and German halftracks were very similar, with the KFZ 251 edging it out at about 11-12mm of effective thickness.
Mmm... Hilary Doyle has the exact reverse opinion, stating that no other nation was as capable of producing thin armor of the same effectiveness as found on the German halftrack. Watch for a future interview video. Then argue it out...
Still remember a White half track in Hemmings Motor News for $20K. It was a late one that had very low original miles and was registered road legal. Damn that 20/20 hind sight.
I have the same problem driving the WWII GPW or MB ,so I usually drive with the windscreen down wearing WWII pilot flight goggles. Even other Jeep owners smile and take pictures as it's not something you see every day. Met a Ferrari owner and he told me that I took the cool out of his car.
So ugly it turns out to looks BEAUTIFUL! I will love to pick up my dougther from the kinder garden on this. Brownings included to prevent others parents to trying to climb in... Awesome vehicle!
I've seen in a couple of places that the standard armament for these was a caliber 50 and two caliber 30s, not just one. I wouldn't doubt a second being added as a field conversion, but they'd need to find an extra skate mount somewhere...
There was one park in front of 53rd trans battalion 37 trans group , red ball Express, in Germany in Kaiserslauternit was parked right in front of the I battalion headquarters
These RIA videos are really making me wish I was rich. I had this idea, if I had the money, I could win the bids on these vehicles, then buy a building to turn into a museum in, or near, my home town.
I can imagine a lot of 'procuring' went on to spiv up it up. I bet a lot of folks found that the .50 cal on their jeep had overnight turned into a .30 cal and the scout platoons M3A1 looked like a hedgehog on heat.
A 1 1/2 ton truck is a pretty large chassis, actually. Not a "small" truck. The "light truck" designation ends at 1 ton trucks. The footprint may not have been huge, but with trucks it's usually more the weight you worry about. On "double drop channel frame" or whatever exactly it said, it means first that the frame isn't straight as it moves from the center out. It drops down in the front and back to mount the suspension, while keeping the center high for ground clearance. Second, channel refers to the cross section of the frame rails. They're U-shaped, a shape that remained popular for a long time (it still is). You could also have an I or H cross section I guess (and yes, there's a difference), but I can't think of anything I've been under that had that. The next most common (and probably strongest) would be the box cross section which was/is sometimes made by overlapping two channels facing each other so the top of each channel was at about the angle on the other side, then welding them together. Channel frame members are fairly cheap to manufacture, and have much better strength for weight than a flat piece or one with a single right angle. Fuel tanks under the seat were very common in trucks, and pickups all the way through the '50s would have the seat on top of the fuel tank. Eventually someone figured out that wasn't very safe and realized there was plenty of room under the bed along the frame... I really wish you'd looked at the axles and running gear a bit. Then again, I'm obviously a geek for the mechanical side...
As a scout car I presume sometimes I might be running away fast. I can't imaging taking the time to stop driving while I switch from low gears to high.
That HQ “scout” car might have been outfitted a little different than others in the unit.I.e. radios and spare tire rather than another machine gun and extra ammo storage. . Fun tour always enjoy your tongue in cheek comments. And, your Irish humor is only rivaled by the staid straight laced humor of the Brits.🤣
You can find White Ghosts for sale online from between $15,000 to $50,000 depending on condition. WG could invest in one, toss some logo's on it and you could drive it to various events :-)
Using a hand crank to start vehicles of this era wasn't as hard as people today think. The engines were usually of pretty low compression, so not a lot of strength was needed. I have not hand cranked a scout car but I have hand cranked four cylinder tractors; just be sure to stay out of the way of the handle unless you want a broken arm.
1:31 - I don't usually like to comment before the end of the video, so as to not look like I didn't watch all of it, but this made me laugh enough to have to acknowledge in case I forgot later.
The earlier model saw service first in the Philippines during the 1941-42 campaign. Then the later model during the 1944-45 Liberation campaign. Postwar, the late model equipped units of the Philippine military and the defunct constabulary. When the constabulary was disbanded in the 1990s, the sole remaining Scout Car was turned over to the national police and saw service in the Sulu archipelago against bandits and the Abu Sayyaf Group up to the early years of the first decade of the 21st Century. No idea what became of its fate after that
I can't afford a 75K AFV (or 74,750 as cheap as that is) so I built my own (well I produced it, a couple of friends did a lot of the heavy work), a full scale FT Chars Mitrailleurs for the centennial. It's not quite done but displayable and I get to sit in the turret and fire the machine gun. Look under FT tank clears it's throat for the Hotchkiss machine gun fire. While this somewhat of a facade of the tank with lots of inaccuracies, it will look better once I get more bells and whistles and make the track more servicable. However, much of the ambiance of these vehicles is apparent on mine, such as the cramped spaces, the realization you will most likely die if it catches on fire, and how the hell did they see and fight in these things. One day it will run and won't that be a hoot. Due to torrential rains in Texas in September 2018 , I was only able to get it in a displayable form but it has gotten a lot of local attention as along the IH 35 corridor, San Antonio-Austin you don't see any of these (although there is an excellent concentration of Armor at the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, and the Museum of American GI in College Station Texas which is closer to the IH 45 corridor North of Houston). MAGI of course has a beautiful FT tank and that is one the chieftain ought to use as it is drivable and shootable with it's 37mm cannon. I deliberately made mine the machine gun version with the "riveted" turret for contrast although of course you want to look at the real deal up close and mine at a distance. But sitting up on the back of the tank with legs in the turret gives one a different perspective, a sense of false dominance that probably helped keep tankers in their tanks fighting rather than jumping out and running away in terror. However, the drivers position is like being in a coffin. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eZ9_2nP4pYM.html
The rims are not "split" rim, they are called "combat" rims. They bolt together. Very tightly and easily. Look at "split rims", they have a different internal none bolting lock. "Split ring" is yet another type. Both of the later you dont mess with. Combat rims you do on the floor of your garage and have no issues. Jeeps are all the same originally.
Hey, at least you get to sit _on_ the fuel tank. I used to have a mid-'60s Chevy pickup; in those the fuel tank is _behind_ the seat, so that in a collision, if it ruptures, the first you know about it is when you're suddenly drenched from behind in gasoline. For the win, as I believe the young people say nowadays.
Is this the wagon that Patton used to stand up and pose in the back of only to be awkwardly helped out over the MG ring but his used to have a centrally mounted 50 through the windshield covers
