Until now we haven't been able to find the F-numbers underneath the existing paint. We believe that between it's military use and the use by the Belgian Gendarmerie the vehicle has been scrubbed in order to paint it in the typical dark blue Gendarmerie paint. In that process the British or Canadian markings were probably removed. The USA Reg.nr. was not removed because that was on an earlier layer of paint. We are very carefull in the restoration process not to remove any markings that could determine the vehicles history. That's why we didn't sandblast the hull but we used a nail gun on air pressure and sand paper to remove the paint and the rust. The floor will probably be the only thing we will sandblast because there is so much rust on it that it would take us ages to remove it with the nail gun. Maybe we are lucky and we can find some markings on the turret.
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