2021 Streetpaper/Racepaper Advert models

[cafe]

#26 is up!


Thank you Volker! Take care!

[rickstef]

Wow, a vehicle I have never heard of

[cafe]

I still don't know what yesterday's model is derived from. A military truck? A missile erector/launcher, an airport fire truck?

[rickstef]

Carlos,

The Studebaker, the 8x8, was a custom build from what I have been able to gather, commissioned either by Seiko or the hotel, the back of the truck did have a dining room for invited VIPs.
It didn't finish though, and I don't know what the disposition of the truck is currently

[cafe]

Thanks Rick. I thought Studebaker had folded decades before. It makes sense it was a custom build.

[rickstef]

One of the better write ups on the 8x8
http://motormania.info/MM/2020/01/17...ca-dakar-1982/

[rickstef]

One of the better write ups on the 8x8
http://motormania.info/MM/2020/01/17...ca-dakar-1982/

[cafe]

Gracias, Rick. Now I know what the hotel's name was. I would never have guessed Duboucheron. That was illegible!

So it was indeed a military truck. I thought it looked soviet or czech to me. There isn't much left from the original M35s, and certainly not the body!

[rickstef]

I would venture a guess that the M35s were used for the running gear and chassis for the truck
the superstructure was a tube frame with fiberglass panels

[Moritzamica]

There has been an another model of this incredible truck on the minimodels-site:


https://www.minimodel.sk/en/catalog/...-dakar-82.html