The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa has on display one of seven cars used by Hitler. Heavily modified with extensive armour plating ? including 2.5 inch glass all round, and 1.6 inch steel armour plate in all metalwork surrounding the main passenger compartment, plus an additional raiseable plate between driver and rear passenger compartment ? it weighs 4,100 kgs. Further modifications allowed the secure storage of three machine pistols. The body also had additional vents to the side and a top the hood, twin hinges on the side doors, and four further air vents in the main scuttle. In preparation of the fall of Berchtesgarden in April 1945, RSD and SS troops had loaded the car on a railway flat-car, where it was found in May 1945 by a corps lead by Sergeant Joe Azara of the United States Army 20th Armored Division in Laufen. Found in a damaged condition, a liberated Dutch forced-labour mechanic got the car working, advising the troops that it was Hermann Goering’s state car. Repainted in US Army green with a star applied either side, it then served as the ranking officer’s staff car during the post-war occupation period of Germany. Shipped to the U.S. in late 1945, it toured the country as part of a continued effort to raise war bonds, displayed and noted as Goering’s personal car. Placed in storage, in October 1956 it was entered in a US Army surplus auction at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and sold to Montreal-based businessman H.J. O’Connell for $2,750. Shipped for restoration to Rumble Motors in Toronto, a research book was established to restore the car as Goering would have had it during the war ? for a cost of Can$5,000 ? apart from leaving the bullet-damaged glass in place. In 1970 as part of a tax settlement, O’Connell gifted the car in return to the Canadian War Museum, again displayed there as Goering’s car. In 1980, museum researcher Ludwig Kosha ? originally himself born in Germany ? began detailed research on the car, with assistance from Mercedes-Benz, the West German embassy to Canada and the West German foreign service. Along with chassis, engine, paint and modification records, and discovery of part of its original number plate 1AV148697, it was confirmed as one of Hitler’s cars, delivered to the Reich Chancellery, Berlin on 8 July 1940. mazda wallpapers, audi wallpaper, maserati wallpapers, Mercedes 770 wallpapers, nissan wallpapers
(Mitsubishi L200)An SUV model developed from the Mitsubishi Triton, called the Mitsubishi Challenger was released to Japan in 1996. In overseas markets it was also badged Montero Sport, Pajero Sport, Shogun Sport, or Nativa. Challenger shares many components and some body panels (i.e. front doors) with the Strada pickup truck and utilises the second generation Mitsubishi Pajero wheelbase. The Challenger was also produced in Thailand as the Mitsubishi Strada G-Wagon. The Thai model, unlike the same vehicle manufactured elsewhere used the same front styling as the Strada pickup truck that it was based upon. It was retired from production in 2005, but the Challenger nameplate was resurrected for the second generation of the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, launched in 2008 and which is also based on the following generation of the Mitsubishi Triton. Mitsubishi L200 wallpapers#FerrariRoma #Buick #Ford #BmwM8 #AudiRS3
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