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[welbike]

Hi Serge, I had heard rumours, but not seen pictures yet, do you have contact details of the owner???

I have many spare parts!

Thanks,

Lex Schmidt

welbike(at)welbike.net

[serge]

Hello

In France we can find (but it's becoming more and more difficult) such lorry in very good state with there original body like the one showed in my post reply. Nevertheless the most part of them have knowed civilian life and all military markings have been erased and also the body modified or changed.

So about this truck , the only thing we know about it's story is that it was stored more than 15 years in the garage before to see the light again six years ago.
Sorry but there is no "Chrimas story " attached to this truck !!!

Regards

[Alex van de Wetering]

Although,

The windscreen contour seems to be slightly different, I thought this picture would find a good place in this thread.



from the link in our scrapyards in France thread: http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile...251-113995.htm



Alex

[serge]

hello ALEX

You are right , the WHITE 704 I had posted , has losted it's original windscreen. Nevertheless it owns an original woody body.
Do you know the fate of the truck showed in you last post reply?

Regards

[Alex van de Wetering]

hello ALEX

You are right , the WHITE 704 I had posted , has losted it's original windscreen.

Serge, To be honest I wasn't referring to the windscreen in your picture, but I was referring to the one in my picture. Your picture and the pictures Lex posted seem to show a slightly "lazy" windscreen contour when you look at the top edge, while the one I posted seems to have a more "straight" edge on the top of the windscreen. Maybe a different type?

Sadly I don't know the fate of the truck in the pictures or the location, but I guess it might still be out there. I seem to be an excellent candidate for restoration. You could try contacting the guy who posted the pictures on the forum-auto forum; some of the guys posting pictures of rusting cars in scrapyards are helpfull in giving the location and/or owners names, while others try hard to keep it a secret

A few more of the next page on forum-auto:






source: Forum-auto.com

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Sadly I don't know the fate of the truck in the pictures or the location, but I guess it might still be out there. I seem to be an excellent candidate for restoration.

This truck "survivor no.3" is now advertised on MilWeb:

White 704S
Rare truck.
Delivered to French army - 1500 vehicles.
Many where taken by Germans in 1940 and used on the Russian front.
Very few known actually to survive.
Complete, original engine, not seized , rear body to be rebuilt.
French papers.
3500 €.
Alexis : 0033 (0) 609 640 982

[welbike]

yes, the owner offered it first to me, but one is enough!!

If someone decides to buy this very rare truck, note that I have most of the missing parts for it, exept the cargobed.

Cheers,

Lex Schmidt