toyota military trucks?

[ollieboy]

I looked into this when I did a huge study on Toyota a few years ago and after collaborating with a few different people on the matter we believe we came up with an answer on the subject. Is this what the vehicle looked like?

[Mr Revhead]

that looks circa ww1
and the engine cover reminds me of pre ww1 renaults, and the guys look russian!

[79rolla]

yeah that looks a bit too old for ww2

[ollieboy]

Oh Crap, my bad, Linked the wrong images, it was 1:12am thats my excuse.



It's a Toyota KC-Truck which was converted to an amphbian.
It was built from November 1943 to August 1944 in 198 units.

[Sick Puppy]

I agree with DeeCee that the movie is Empire of the Sun.

And yeah, I read the post and remembered what you wrote, but there is a difference between designing for conserving resources and because you've bugger all. I did a google search (darn, I just love Google!) and found this:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/toyoda1.html

http://companies.jrank.org/pages/4482/Toyota-Motor-Corporation.html

Which indicates that the vehicle you're looking for was a response to the fact that well, they had bugger all resources and producing whatever they could in order to continue the war...