some speculations
1 Intrigue or not, like Bill I always thought before this story came out that these cars were BA6 hulls with their GAZ chassis/engines replaced by Chevrolet ones, including engine. The BA and the Chevrolet only differ in outside detail (gun positions, turrets). Let's wait for Pascal's article to see how they were built.
2. If the chassis were 6x4 Chev/GM with Thornton components I am wondering if they still would be called "SD" as this was a specific name for the 4x2 trucks? Or simply 6x4 SD?
3. I enlarged Pascal's scan on the Braille Scale Forum and found out (but correct me if I am wrong) that the French impounded some 10 6x4 Chevrolet chassis en route to the Republicans. So these were either shipped from the US through France or from the Low Countries through France? What would make sense?
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12-02-06, 13:56
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