Warbird Information Exchange

Just watching something on the 50 inch peephole into paradise when on comes a commercial for DODGE CUMMINS Diesel Pick Ups using one of my favorite actors, Sam Elliott (married to Kathryn Ross) bragging about how' before a CUMMINS engine every went into a DODGE...blah-blah-blah.....' using vignettes of various vehicles including a harvester and Freddy Agabashian in the 1952 CUMMINS Indy car-then a shot of a DUKW rolling up a beach somewhere. Minor problem Madison Ave. every DUKW was Gasoline powered using the trusty Chevrolet 216 C.I. 6 cylinder engine because..OH, YEAH! GMC/CHEVROLET developed and built every DUKW, all 21000+ of them

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I wondered about that commercial.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

What, you've never heard of the Dodge Duck?

Silly goose, wait, that's another thread in the hangar.........
During the Summer in Seattle every Thursday night is the 'Duck Dodge' where sailboats try to avoid quackers on Lake Union in the downtown area, also homeport for KENMORE AIR-

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I've never been in a DUKW on the water, but they sure are loud on the road at speed!

I've seen the commercial ones in Seattle, in London, at the Wisconsin Dells and in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Looks like fun but I'm not much into boats- even if they do drive on land too!

So........does that say you'd rule out buying a '59 Oldsmobile Holiday 98 convertable with a Continental kit or a 60 Lincoln to go Friday night cruisin'?

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As long as it isn't cruising in a puddle any deeper than two inches I would be OK with it!

How about this one with the XP-47?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdFHGoN ... re=related

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" excuse me stewardess I speak jive"

The Chrysler IV-2220 was a 60 degree, V-16 inverted experimental engine putting out approximately 2500 H.P. It was about the same displacement as a RR Griffon but was 45 inches longer @ 122" L.O.A. vs. 77" for the Griffon and was heavier than the RR. It had teething troubles and was beset with reliability issues. And it was hemispherical head design. So, the ad is true.

During the war, Chrysler was issued a contract to build and develop the WRIGHT R-3350 for B-29/B-32 production, good thing as Chrysler went to work on the design and cured a large number of it's problems and helped make the engine much more reliable than it had been when the one thing it did with great ease was to catch fire. Check wikipedia under 'CHRYSLER IV-2220'

I've wondered for years how everyone EXCEPT the U.S. could make reliable, long lived inverted engines and contra rotating propellers like DH Gypsies the props on the TU-95 BEAR.

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I have, 'drove it' in the water too. Charles River, Boston, Mass, 2002. Neat ride.

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Inspector, I just saw that commercial and I have my doubts that you are seeing a DUKW. The DUKW has longitudinal hat stiffeners on the side maybe 18 inches apart while the thing I saw on TV seemed to have corrugations???? Maybe they are showing some kind of landing craft?

It is a short clip, but look again and see if you still think it is a DUKW.

Possible, but the only other U.S. amphibious landing vehicle in wide use in WW2 was the Marines ALLIGATOR and it was a tracked vehicle, this has tires. Dodge built post war Deuce and a halfs but they were a conventional 6X6 2 1/2 ton mostly stakebed truck (with squeeky brakes!), and it's not a current AA7A which looks like a JAWA crawler from STAR WARS Straight landing craft were flat bottomed, plywood with a DETROIT DDA 6-71 inline 6 cyl. diesel engine, lots of them built by HIGGINS @ what is now the Michoud NASA complex iin New Orleans.

Nothing personal, but anyone out there a thin skin type individual?

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Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atl_ONSiiuI

Here's what it is:

Assault Amphibious Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_Assault_Vehicle

YEP! Now the next time I see the commercial, I'll expect to see little guys in reddish-purple robes marching and repeating 'dink-dink-dink-dink' ( see 'SPACEBALLS the Movie'-kids love it!) at least we all had some fun with it!

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Oddly enough, I actually caught the commercial this morning while watching Powerblock! on Spike TV and actually paid attention to it for the first time. I come on here to post that it's an AAV-7, and I find I've already been beaten to the punch. Oh well, such is the reality of WIX.