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Old 20-07-07, 14:18
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Hi

Last month, I visite the "MUSEE DES BLINDES DE SAUMUR" (armoured museum car) in the west of FRANCE.
Behind the main displays halls, there are some garages where are stored vehicles and armored cars waiting for restoration.
Among them, I saw 3 CMP : one FORD CANADA F60L with ZL machinery body type 5F7 and 2 CHEVROLET C60L: one with
an original composite body and the other with a non original water tank.

These trucks are the last CMP trucks used by French army (NAVY) and they belong to the last batch sold in BREST at the end of the sixties years .
In WHEELS and TRACKS log, an information had been wrote about this sale. Happyly, all trucks were buy by military vehicles
collectors (mainly from NEDERLAND) because in France people are not very interressed by this kind of truck.
Inside the body of the F60L we can see machine tools and I think that there are all original.

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Old 20-07-07, 14:22
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Hi

I send you a second pic of a CHEVROLET C60L stored in SAUMUR museum. This truck owns it original composite body (wood and steel).
The third truck is also a C60L but with an non original tank.

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Old 21-07-07, 00:57
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Bonsoir, mon ami français! Merci de nous montrer ces photographies merveilleuses et pour nous dire leur histoire.

Are these vehicles still theoretically (théoriquement? Est-ce que c'est le mot correct?) in French Military Service, or are they owned by the museum now? Do you know what is to happen to them? They look to be in very good condition. 'Last soldiers' indeed!

Merci encore, monsieur.

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Old 21-07-07, 02:27
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Notice the wehrmacht number and Afrika Corps logo on the last truck.

I've been to this museum as well and it is quite something. I think they have over 800 vehicles, many in restored condition.
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Old 21-07-07, 06:55
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Indeed, Bruce, you have a good memory and the third truck is a CHEVROLET C60L with an non original TANK. This truck was used in a film as wehrmacht truck.

All these trucks belong to SAUMUR museum and I hope that there will be restored in one or two decades because the main activity of this museum is the restoration of armoured car.
They have nearly 800 (eight hundred vehicles) among them : 3 PANTHER and one KING TIGER in running condition !!!

I join the pic of the third truck which own its military registration original in French army. Inside this registration there is a mystery because the first number is 6 that means a truck of ARMY and 41 the year wher it was used.
(to Geoff : you have a good knowledge of french vocabulary)
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