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Old 18-11-13, 22:35
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I was just wondering why there are so many Yellow CDN M37's ?

Sorry for my ignorance in this matter but I was wondering why It seems that 90% of the unrestored M37's offered for sale seem to be painted yellow. And not just M37's but I have seen a few other former CF vehicles of the same era painted this colour as well. Where these flight line vehicles? Where they painted yellow before disposal ? Did the new civilian owners paint them yellow? possibly construction company's or logging out fits.

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Old 18-11-13, 22:56
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....is it lemon yellow......????

What I have seen is mainly OD.....very few with camo....some airforce blue ambulance...... red for local fire brigade ........ a few rare airport equipment yellow....... maybe they are the ones that lasted the longest in service and are the last one to be surplused.

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Old 18-11-13, 23:51
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I know that alot of military vehicles that went thru Southern Parts in the US were painted yellow. They bought up all kinds or ex-military stuff from around the world. My halftrack came from there and under the top paint it was all yellow
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Old 19-11-13, 00:08
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Maybe Yellow Truck and Coach are still out there somewhere.

The ex military vehicle here in Oz that I have noted as always being yellow and not built that way is the Cletrac 7 ton High Speed Tractor M2. Everybody that had one seems to have painted it that colour. Perhaps they are trying to make them look like Catapillars. Even a respected HMV restorer here painted his yellow when he renovated it. Go figure!

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Old 19-11-13, 01:02
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Hi Guys , for the most part all the Cdn M-37's that I have seen for sale have been OD , some with camo out west , you may be looking at US trucks that are ex air force, also US civil defense were orange or yellow, Levy's had 200 in the yard in the late 60's,yellow with blue fenders, do not assume that every truck you see with a hard top is a Cdn one, Canada did also have yellow RCAF vehicles , I have a CCKW weather truck that is ex RCAF that is still yellow, at a certain point they started painting them blue and the M-43's were white with the red cross, there was a yellow M-37 on ebay in Vermont and appeared to be a US truck set up for cold weather with the hardtop, the US hardtop has a small oval rear window and Cdn trucks have a large rectangular window,
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Old 19-11-13, 01:51
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These are all CDN M37's I have seen for sale here in Canada

I have seen loads of them painted yellow and other former CDN mil vehicles painted yellow mostly P/U trucks and the likes. Mostly stuff of 1950's /1960's vintage.

Were Canadian flight line M37's painted yellow ?
Were Canadian soft skin flight line vehicles painted yellow at all ?

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Old 19-11-13, 02:03
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I have only ever seen a handful of yellow M37's and civvies pickups out this way painted yellow. All were ex-airfield vehicles. Some had a matt black hood and all had the large Canadian Forces decal on the doors. The Field Ambulance at CFB Portage was white.

Most all other M-Series Dodges were camo except for a huge lot sold out of Shilo many years ago that were all OD green. That lot had been put in long term emergency storage (i.e. mothballed).

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