Almost got it...

[pfarber]

"Wrong, only people who have restored a CCKW will know or care if you have a french fender or that the stake pockets on the bed are the wrong shape, or that you're running european headlights. The rest of the MV world doesn't know at what serial a feature changed, or that the cab you have is wrong for your vin, and people outside the MV world only see a big green truck. So the "peanut gallery" that you mention is just chock full of other CCKW owners and restorers.
Tom Bowers

Mr Bowers is on the right path. But it seems that CCKW owners are the least willing to share. Every hobby has its assholes, but the smaller the hobby, the bigger the assholes. And no, I am not one of them.

Sad fact is that the vast majority of CCKW owners CAN'T tell the difference. Or worse, when its mentioned, act like you just kicked their kid.

Other sites full of people who 'own' CCKWs (aka big green trucks) and are there to simply to whine about the problem of the day. Some people blather on about stuff that is readily available in the TMs like its knowledge that no one ever had... and then the lemmings latch on.

Whats great is that the things I said one, two years ago are now coming full circle. People are getting smarter and its a good thing.

CCKWs are not hard to understand.... they are so easy that it only took one CCKW owner 60+ years to figure out what I have in less than 5.