Strange Mil Vehicle

Pinz Enthusiast · Post by **Pinz Enthusiast** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:01 pm

Well look what moved in a few spaces from where I keep my motorhome, 1st there was a WWII or Korean era Jeep with a 1ton trailes, then I go back and this thing is there, to me it sort of has a british ferret look to is, but it appears to be built on a jeep cassis, I opened the door and it has 1 driver seat and a seat in the "turret" mounted up high, the armour looks fairly light about 3/16" or so, no markings of any military fashion likewise no numbers or other markings stamped into it that I could see, so the question is does anybody know what it is, Dave this is the one I was talking to you about yesterday....

PinzEOD · Post by **PinzEOD** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:38 pm

I'd say custom made movie prop.

David Dunn · Post by **David Dunn** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:40 pm

Eric
Every impression I get from it is movie prop. it doesn't look like any scout car that I know. The "armour" isn't thick enough...fit and finish is too clean.
Do you have any interior pics?

Dave

Pinz Enthusiast · Post by **Pinz Enthusiast** » Sat May 10, 2008 11:28 am

Dave no interior pics but am going back monday will take a better cam than my cam/phone and get some at a higher resolution, after we talked and I was poking in it I am getting the impression that it is a movie prop car too, also thinking I will leave a note on it for the owner to get more info.

eaweidner · Post by **eaweidner** » Sat May 10, 2008 8:03 pm

You are looking at a WW2 vintage Russian armored car. I can provide more info if you wish.
Regards,
Eric

Pinz Enthusiast · Post by **Pinz Enthusiast** » Sat May 10, 2008 8:30 pm

By all means yes anything you have on it would be appreciated, our best guess so far was thats its a hollywood movie prop and a oneoff at that, but if its production, would be cool to know more about it....

russ · Post by **russ** » Sat May 10, 2008 10:05 pm

I found this:
http://members.aol.com/brimiljeep/WebPa ... pPage.html

It's a BA-64.

Pinz Enthusiast · Post by **Pinz Enthusiast** » Sun May 11, 2008 12:44 am

Well looks like Russ nailed it, it is offically a Russian BA-64 a Armoured version of the GAZ67 "Jeep" very cool, does Dave still need interior pics, I am going back to the motorhome on monday to finnish waxing it, can shoot a few then....

David Dunn · Post by **David Dunn** » Sun May 11, 2008 1:12 am

Don't need any interior pics, other to identify if it is authentic, or a prop for a movie ( which I still believe it is)...Welded seams appear to clean for something made during wartime USSR and lack "details"..... look to see if the interior is "functional", or fake.

Could it be this?
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1801-GAZ-BA-64.html

Dave Dunn

PinzEOD · Post by **PinzEOD** » Sun May 11, 2008 6:36 am

Check out the blueprints here. Like Dave said, the details don't match up (like the pintle hook), nor does the running gear. The subject vehicle looks like it's built on a jeep chassis.
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/gall ... _64_bp.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/2fpeqd

Jim LaGuardia · Post by **Jim LaGuardia** » Sun May 11, 2008 2:15 pm

It reminds me of the "Dragon" Flameshooting armoured car from Octopussy.

russ · Post by **russ** » Sun May 11, 2008 4:55 pm

It really does look very clean. If it had fender attachments that you could see it would match this one:

Still very cool. Heck it was on running gear very similar to the Jeep.