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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
So it is a "SdKfz 9/x". Well spotted, though I suspect a you got a few hints from a certain German HMV specialist? 
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Well, not really. I had largely sussed it beforehand and then there was no huge disagreement when I theorised the situation, however, you know how closely guarded the certain specialist can be.
In fact the 9/2 is even more interesting to me as a mechanical oddity, the crane with its moveable up and over bobweight is a wondrous affair. However, its not "sexy" being a very rear area vehicle just moving stuff around a repair yard and I expect sourcing even bits of the crane would be nigh on impossible.
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Always difficult to judge such a massive effort to put a rare machine back on the road. It's even worse in the aviation scene, anyone with a little engineering insight knows a Spitfire flying today cannot be more than maybe 25%? wartime parts. But it is still claimed to be XY123 of Sqd 456 which flew over Gold beach on D-Day.
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Indeed so, but, for example, here we have a purported BoB "Spitfire" made of a late mark Griffon variant, all new from the bulkhead back and about 15% dimensionally wrong as a loose anology.
Any avid and punctillious modellers who have homed in on this vehicle, tape measure and camera at the ready, since it is often seen stationary and wholly accessible, are in for a bit of a problem.
It is a massive effort though to even get such a vehicle to pristine and running condition, there is no doubt about that, the show scene is the richer for it too.
Well said.
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Why don't they simply tell the story behind it? It won't make a less impressive sight and the work put in it will be valued just as well.
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It would be interesting indeed, I am only your average inquisitive drongo so perhaps there are many now who have drawn the same unproven conclusions. The derivation and restoration work would be an interesting story it is true and detracts nothing from the vehicle itself. Probably we will never know for sure.
R.