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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Richard Notton
You ponder it all, just my rambling observations.

Hell of a re-work job all the same; I have a tiny problem with "restoration" here as the Concise Oxford Dic. says: "Return to a former condition or position."

So it is a "SdKfz 9/x". Well spotted, though I suspect a you got a few hints from a certain German HMV specialist?

Always difficult to judge such a massive effort to put a rare machine back on the road. It's even worse in the aviation scene, anyone with a little engineering insight knows a Spitfire flying today cannot be more than maybe 25%? wartime parts. But it is still claimed to be XY123 of Sqd 456 which flew over Gold beach on D-Day.

Oh well.

Why don't they simply tell the story behind it? It won't make a less impressive sight and the work put in it will be valued just as well.

H.