Greetings fellows. I have just joined your site and am the originator of the debate over the 45 blue over red plates on the front and back of one of my M38 Canadian built M38s. and yes the old license plate is BC - I live in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island actually. I suppose anything can turn out "bogus" but I have to say this is the most stock, least messed with M38 I have ever come accross and I have owned a number of them for over 30 years. It apparently came from a surplus plac near Shilo, Manitoba and the then owner actually drove it accross this wide land to this fine island year later in the late seventies. It sat in a barn and kept the geese company for about a decade before I bought it several years ago. I was told he had not done anything to it but for a 12 volt alternator (luckily he kept the 24 vold generator
) and I believed him. In short, I strongly doubt this 45 plate is bogus and one would surely wonder given the post above. Your input is most valued. Thanks and glad to be aboard!
Ingvar
p.s. the brass dash plates have it as F-101571 E-20LV7 742 Army. 7-31-52 Any way of tracing its history with the forces by way of its serial #? (My son's was built 5 days before!)