Indiana Jones troop car

[aferguson]

Was it ever determined what the Indiana Jones troop car is supposed to be?

[Threetoughtrucks]

Pics?

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[Jesse James]

I thought it was to be a Hoersch (spelling?) 4WD or something like that? I can't recall the exact name but one was in a book I have but dont' have with me at the moment. Something like this?

http://www.4x4abc.com/G-Class/img/g5.jpeg


Here's the toy

Someone on here did some great customs with them painted up for Normandy... Really great decoes and camo on them. I thought someone did one with a working canvas top you could put down/up too.

I've got one or two around here I should probably sell at this point since I bought too many to customize.

[grunt1]

Mercedes Benz G5
http://www.madelmanyfigurasdeaccion.com ... =51&t=2546

[Jesse James]

That seems pretty clear. Not a bad replica either... I swear someone did an awesome repaint of this but I can't find it now. I think he made and sold stuff on Ebay then.

[Threetoughtrucks]

The car in the movie is supposed to be a Mercedes-Benz G5 Geländewagen.

The vehicle used for the movie was a ground up copy made especially for the movie in England. The car that goes over the cliff, of course, was only a small model.

I love replica vehicles used in movies, sometimes they are so impressive, they are just great by themselves, like the M-37's mocked up to be desert 1 1/2 Chevy's in "Play Dirty" and all the German tanks in SPR.... T-34's, T-55's being Tigers, and Brit APC's cut up to be Stugs etc.

Many years have passed since a German cross was painted on a M-41 or M-47 and then calling it a Tiger!!!!!

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[aferguson]

ok great....so what was it used for?

[Jesse James]

I thought it did a lot of general purpose work... Like a precursor to Kubels, but more gas-hoggy... Looks like it could tow a bit, haul quite a few folks. I read something somewhere though that an MG mount on the back isn't likely to have been on real ones.

[aferguson]

btw i havent heard of the movie Play Dirty. Is it good? Worth buying the DVD? I like LRDG stuff but if it's a hokey movie, with m3 halftracks as german halftracks (like Rat Patrol) then i dont think i'd like it.

[Threetoughtrucks]

Aferg:

You will like "Play Dirty", even though it does have a few White halftracks used as German, but that is in only a few scenes and it fits as the Germans captured and used some supplies of American halftracks after the Kaserine Pass.

Main plot is Michael Caine as a Brit rear echelon petroleum engineer being forced to accompany a LRDG unit going on a secret mission. Lots of Brit vehicles and lots of dirty tricks and action. The scenes of the LDRG unit winching trucks a canyon wall are great.

Oh, as to this thread, the G5 was used as a troop carrier, like a Jeep until replaced by a Kubelwagon. 19,000 G5 type vehicles were used until the Kubel became available.

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