Originally Posted by hotbike

General Ho Chi Minh of the North Vietnamese Army had ten of these longtail bicycles.

Five had mortars, and five had ammunition.

They went down the Ho Chi Minh trail every night and shelled American troops.

The Americans never knew what hit them. The troops were never told, not because it would be bad for morale, but because it would be bad for sales of GM cars. It was kept a secret until after the war.

There are a lot of shell shocked Vietnam veterans, walking around homeless, who don't even have a car to live in.