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Anyone Identify This Truck?
jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 03:38 AM UTC
I hope to hell it ISN'T what I think it might be.

Taken last summer at a Theme Park in England:



Frenchy
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Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 03:44 AM UTC
A Ford G8T ?

This one is a 1944 model :



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Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 03:47 AM UTC
It looks like a '42 Ford G8T 1 1/2 ton cargo truck to me.



Apparently they were also built by Marmon Harrington and or Lend/Lease to Brittain during the war as well.





Damn, "Quick Fingers" Frenchy beat me to it.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 04:04 AM UTC

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or Lend/Lease to Brittain during the war as well.


The Red Army received a lot of them too :
http://www.o5m6.de/ford_g8t.html

That was a close call Gino

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Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 06:28 PM UTC
Thanks for the help guys!

Little more than an act of vandalism and it's depressing to see the truck treated like this...
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:39 AM UTC
Jim what theme parks that? I wen't to Alton Towers during the summer and they've got a huge collection of ex Soviet stuff thats been wrecked kind of a shame.
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:56 AM UTC

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Jim what theme parks that? I wen't to Alton Towers during the summer and they've got a huge collection of ex Soviet stuff thats been wrecked kind of a shame.


It's Thorpe Park
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