16-201 Garand Picture of the Day - 11th Airborne Yokohama

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Sentryduty]

It's like a car, but smaller...

[browningautorifle]

I'd like to shoot it with a rocket launcher...

[Sentryduty]

Those guys are going to be all day trying to figure out where the wind-up key for the clock spring to run it has has gone...

[browningautorifle]

Then when they leave, if it doesn't run for them, someone will leave a primed grenade in it...like the troops tend to do...

[Mark in Rochester]

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...x298jpgv-1.jpg

Beat me to the punch, Funny how thing go in cycles.

We call them "Clown Cars".

[Paul S.]

For some strange reason, every time I see one of those little two seat cars running around I can't help thinking 'escape pod for a semi trailer'!

[Flying10uk]

Is this the Datsun that was accused of being a copy/knock off of the Austin 7 but the matter was never proven??? Herbert Austin went as far as purchasing an example and having it shipped back to the U.K. for examination but no further action was taken and the matter quietly dropped. The car which was brought back to the U.K. is still in existence and I have seen it.

[Sentryduty]

I was trying to ID the car yesterday and it could very well be that model, in my brief reading the "Big Three" had opened factories and operations in Japan during the 1930's but were essentially kicked out under some domestic production laws that were enacted just prior to the war. Once Japan started building their own cars, they were referenced and nothing more than reverse engineered copies of foreign designs, simplified for local building in some cases. The Austin 7 is among the copycat designs that were putting it plainly, stolen.