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Originally posted by Bill Murray
To the pic and the post, in my experience, most "raid" cars were based on normal civilian passenger car chassis, suitably modified. In the main, they were US origin or branded vehicles such as Chevrolet, Ford, Chrysler etc. I was very pleased to see your pic of one based on a truck chassis even if I did not feel good about the use that the vehicle was intended for.
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The raid cars you're referring to are the converted US cars of which the rear body and roof was chopped off and replaced by a simple wooden rear body - a common form of Umbau-wagen.
I never said this is a raid car - it a Chevrolet Pag-trekker (AT gun Tractor) , just one of many captured vehicles put to use in occupied territory, used for patrolling, transporting, raiding, etc. - whatever the German army was doing in Holland at the time. At least it did not get shot up on the Eastern front. I wonder if it survived the war to be driven into the ground in civvy street?
H.