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Originally Posted by Bruce MacMillan
There may be an Italian connection as they used amphibious fire vehicles. Perhaps a vehicle that has been done over as a military vehicle?
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Good lead, thanks! The vehicle you depicted is a Fiat Iveco 6640 G, an Italian amphibious vehicle which was "built from the early 1950s till the 1980s for the Italian government organisations". Our subject vehicle may well have been a prototype for the
Fiat Iveco 6640 G...
The Italian The National Fire and Rescue Service (
https://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/Page.aspx?IdPage=5374) used a host of ex-WW2 vehicles during its existence:
https://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/page.aspx?IdPage=2903
Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...Fiat_6640_AMDS