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I was and still am a huge fan of the old 60s TV show, the Rat Patrol. Plus being the owner of a 1943 Jeep, I loved to fiddle with art on it.
A clipping of a old inked drawing I did a lifetime ago.
A clipping of a old inked drawing I did a lifetime ago.
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Oh that brings back memories... My older brother wanted to watch Rat Patrol but the folks thought it might be too much for me at age 4. Dad came up with a bs explanation for all the shooting. "They're shooting at bunny rabbits." Me: okay. Dad, brother and I watch the show - mom had gone off to class or something. She comes back and I run up going "Mommy, Mommy, we watched a show and they shot Germans and Bunny Rabbits!" Years later Rat Patrol is on tv in reruns - dad walks by, looks at me and goes "Germans and Bunny Rabbits..." we never quite lived that one down..
Hehe, I used to wish there was that M2 .50 for the old GI Joe Jeep I had, would have been more fun than the search light or the Recoiless Rifle that came with it. You ever wonder why the Gunner never fell out of the Jeep on that show? Bugged me as a kid and later on watching it in reruns
If you mean "not fall out during filming", it was probably a combination of trained stunt performers and concealed safety equipment, supplemented by camera tricks making things look faster and more dangerous than they really were. (And IIRC, Christopher George suffered an injury during filming that led to later complications and his death. I don't know that it was a fall from a jeep, but it wouldn't surprise me.)
If you mean "how did the original gunners not fall out", I'm sure some did. But they'd have restraining belts and big safety hooks (just look at pictures of navy gun operators for examples) that the TV show might not have shown.
If you mean "how did the original gunners not fall out", I'm sure some did. But they'd have restraining belts and big safety hooks (just look at pictures of navy gun operators for examples) that the TV show might not have shown.
Well that explains why I never saw Chistopher George in any other role - that sucks. i've seen photos of the British SAS commands who pioneered the jeep and later early Land Rover fast attack vehicles. Seemed to be firing more from a seated position - lot of air cooled Lewis Guns, Browining type machineguns in .303 and some of those Boyes .55 cal anti tank rifles - imagine what you could do to an airfield or fuel dump with those...
He did a one-season (16 episode) show called The Immortal, lots of guest appearances, and a list of movies, but nothing as big as The Rat Patrol from what Wikipedia says. (Which also says he died of a heart attack that may have been complicated due to scar tissue from that Rat Patrol accident.)
Well . there is a webpage that has this series ...Let me upload it
https://movies7.to/series/the-rat-patrol-v1l7
https://movies7.to/series/the-rat-patrol-v1l7
I own all those in DVD (except the last season of Black Sheep Squadron when they introduced 'Pappy's Lambs', thats when the series started tanking and it was roughly equal to the real Greg Boyington getting shot down and becoming a POW.
One series I have on my Amazon wishlist is the 60s "the Gallant Men", another Combat style TV series.
One series I have on my Amazon wishlist is the 60s "the Gallant Men", another Combat style TV series.
When wuff was deployed to the backwaters of Egypt many years back, the flight ops met us at the inbound "freedom bird" as we were deplaning to get into our open 2.5T open back transport trucks. They regaled us with a tail about the spirits of the old soldiers still haunting the base, and how some on base had seen images of the old Rat Patrol jeep with its gunner in the back, bounding over the dunes.
As we were in convoy on the way to base ops to get assigned our quarters and finish in-processing, a jeep like the one you have pictured above (with fewer anthros), roared out from behind a dune and zoomed up alongside our convoy. The gunner in the back unlimbered his weapon and pointed it our way...
And hosed down the entire convoy! The base had built a giant squirt gun in the form of that rear gun, powered by multiple pressurized water fire extinguishers. We all got pretty soaked, but folks really didn't mind given the scorching desert temperatures we were riding in.
It was a great intro to the base, and your art definitely brought our encounter to mind!
Nicely done!
As we were in convoy on the way to base ops to get assigned our quarters and finish in-processing, a jeep like the one you have pictured above (with fewer anthros), roared out from behind a dune and zoomed up alongside our convoy. The gunner in the back unlimbered his weapon and pointed it our way...
And hosed down the entire convoy! The base had built a giant squirt gun in the form of that rear gun, powered by multiple pressurized water fire extinguishers. We all got pretty soaked, but folks really didn't mind given the scorching desert temperatures we were riding in.
It was a great intro to the base, and your art definitely brought our encounter to mind!
Nicely done!
I actually met Eric Braeden at a celebrity tennis match in Tucson back in the early 90s. I got him to sign an autograph for Donna Barr as Hans Gudegast and have it personalized in German to her. (She was a HUGE fan of his from the Rat Patrol series) She almost hemorrhaged in shock I got that autograph for her from her idol. "How did YOU manage to get his autograph and in his original NAME?"
Hans was a real nice guy!!
Hans was a real nice guy!!
:chuckles one too many 's's https://twitter.com/casualfennec/st.....46006373715969
Now Pfirsichtorte Rommel would be the Dessert Fox....
Now Pfirsichtorte Rommel would be the Dessert Fox....
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