Preservation versus Restoration

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Originally Posted by KevinHann

I think its a difficult one, people will always have different opinions. .....
You will not believe the amount of criticism that we've received since, even from other owners and self confessed authorities on MV's. The usual comment 'trucks were never painted Brown during the war'....Seriously????

I am slightly guilty of that reaction whenever I see restored wartime Jeeps with a length of manilla rope around the bumper. One B&W photo of one vehicle in one unit doesn't make something universal.

Similarly, just because the modern M151A2 checklist includes 300-lbs of authorized accessories, doesn't mean the modern owner has to display each of them. Specifically, I mean the side curtain nets. They look like a clown car! Very few vehicles I've signed out had the absolute complete kit checklist.