SOLIDO DODGE WC63 6X6 WW2 US ARMY TRUCK VINTAGE 1970S DIECAST #242 BOXED

Superb vintage 1970s model by French brand Solido of a WW2 US Army Dodge WC63 6x6 truck.

Diecast body in dark satin green paint, front mounted winch, radiator and headlight protector grille, US Army white star on the bonnet, glazed windscreen, detailed cab with 3-spoke steering wheel and driver’s side spare wheel, jerry can and tools on the passenger side, rear bed with troop seating, removable plastic tilt, rear tow hook. The truck rolls on 6 wheels on 3 articulated axles (the middle axle is sprung) with detailed metal hubs and treaded rubber tyres and a detailed underside.

It comes in its original yellow and khaki box (missing the window film).

The Dodge WC series, nicknamed "Beeps", and at first (from 1940 to 1942) nicknamed jeeps, is a prolific range of light 4WD and medium 6WD military utility trucks, produced by Chrysler under the Dodge and Fargo marques during World War II. Together with the later 1⁄4‑ton jeeps produced by Willys and Ford, the Dodge 1⁄2‑ton G-505 and 3⁄4‑ton G-502 trucks made up nearly all of the light 4WD trucks supplied to the U.S. military in WW II – with Dodge contributing some 337,500 4WD units (over half as many as the 1⁄4‑ton jeeps).

After the U.S. Army reorganized from using eight-troop rifle squads to twelve-men squads, a whole squad could no longer be carried as a unit in a single 3⁄4‑ton, 4×4, WC-51 or WC-52 truck. At the direction of Major General Courtney Hodges, Chief of Infantry, these G-502 troop- and weapons-carriers were therefore stretched in 1943, with an additional driven rear axle, to derive 48 in (1.22 m) longer 6-wheel drive, 11⁄2‑ton trucks.

On the road the WC62 is a 2 wheel drive vehicle. The front axle and the 3the axle can be powered (separately) when driving off-road. So the vehicle can be driven in a 6x2, 6x4 and 6x6 formula.

The WC63 is a WC62 equiped with a Braden MY2 7500 pound winch.

After WW II, a large number of these vehicles where used by European armies. (France, Norway, …) and some of these vehicles did have a second career at local fire brigades.

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