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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 14:15:32 :
In Reply to: FFPW, flatfender, ff, etc. posted by Clint Dixon [65.125.107.130] on Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 13:04:57 :
Long before any of these trucks were "collectible" most people called anything that resembled an army truck a "jeep", and those who were only slightly more in the know called any old military dodge a "weapons carrier". When I registered my telephone truck (a WM300 with a service body and winches), the sheriff's deputy who checked the VIN insisted that it was "military". He KNEW it was military because it was green and because he had been in the army once.
So, I appreciate your frustration, but trying to get people to call trucks (or anything else) by their correct name is an uphill battle. A gun magazine I subscribe to recently had an article lamenting the fact that so many people insist that a revolver is not a "pistol". I'm sure there's another writer somewhere lamenting the fact that some people call revolvers "pistols". Then there are "broom-handle" Mauser pistols, which I'm sure is a term that never appeared in Mauser literature. An MV magazine I subscribe to had a heated discussion a while back about whether M35s were ever really called "deuce and a halfs" in the service or if that's just a collector's term.
I look at "flatfender" as a rough description of a rather broad, but still identifiable, category of trucks. We have "pilot house" trucks and "stovebolt" engines, but no parts guy is going to find those terms in his computer either.
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