Chevrolet C60L - in the desert of Libya

[Kuno]

@ above posters;

Libya is n fact not an "open sky WW2 museum". As already stated, scrap metal was a main export business until the oil replaced it in the early sixties. For example the larger surroundings of TOBRUK are completely free of any wrecks of WW2. All the main battle grounds and the area along the coast have been "whiped up" just after the end of the hostilities. Later on in the 1980ies, when the steel factory in Misuratha became operational, a further cleaning up has been done.

Since now the price for steel (thanks to the high Chinese demand) is rising and rising, the Libyans do collect whatever they can find in matters of metal. Several wartime wrecks I was aware of have disapperad within the last three years

One should not take the wrong conclsion that if so "many" LRDG wrecks are found in very remote areas, the coastal are must be full of wrecks of "normal" units. The oposite is the case - the wreck in the remote areas were just not worth to be brought to the melting pot - not YET!

What I have started to do in case I find any wreck of WW2 is to mark it as a "monument of Libyan history" (in english & arabic language) - it is the true case that the local people just do not KNOW about the historical background of these relics

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Sometimes one comes to the other and therefore I would like to draw your attention to another wreck of a Chevrolet. I believe that this could now be the truck which has been left burned by the french:

http://www.afrika-korps.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3353