In Europe, following WWII there were an enormous amount of Military vehicles which were no longer required or simply surplus to requirements. What happened to them (and the many uses they were put to) is the subject of this New book from the Dutch publisher, Frituur Zorro.

This new book, written by Theo Barten and Maarten Swarts is:

Frituur Zorro volume 2: Western-Europe 1970-74

To explain further, here's part of the Publisher's Press-Release:

Of the huge numbers of ex-Allied trucks from WWII there were at the time still many to be found. After the war they were given a new lease of life, being used at garages, on fairgrounds and circuses, by contractors and haulage companies and even as mobile canteens. Theo Barten and Maarten Swarts photographed these, often locally rebuilt survivors in volume one of ‘Frituur Zorro’. They found this name painted onto a derelict Austin K2, which had once been used as a mobile ‘Chippy’. Afterwards, they focused their attention on the Eastern-Europe. The German army was equipped with a mishmash of different trucks, domestically produced, confiscated in occupied territories, or built there in local factories. In this edition we will be covering this material. Also in this edition we will be looking at some post war variations. The vehicles photographed are German, French, Czech, Austrian, Russian and Italian.

The book contains more then 500 hi-quality photos, focusing on civilian use of WW2 soft-skin vehicles, (often unrecognizably rebuilt), photographed in 1970s.

For modelers looking for that always elusive 'something different' both this, and the previous volume (dealing with British vehicles) genuinely look to be packed with inspiration. We are, bit by bit getting the softskin models we've wanted, here's another way of modeling them!

For Ordering Details, visit the company website here:

Frituur Zorro Webpage (LINK)

My thanks to Theo Barten for the Update!