Our already existing collection of ex-Austrian Army Gräf&Stift trucks has been extended by a type LAFD210 6x6 from this prestigious former Austrian truck manufacturer. After a hint from one of our friends at MAN trucks Vienna, Franz and Florian Schwendemann recovered this truck under unusually nice weather conditions on July 22. While 200 of these trucks had been procured by the Austrian Army (primarily for service with the engineer batallions), only very few survived their "second life" in civilian use. They were the direct predecessors of the ÖAF gl sLKW trucks introduced in 1976, and our vehicle had been registered under Army license plate BH 82.494. So far we have not been able to identify the unit it served with, only the tactical markings of a staff company are still legible. Further "cannibalizing" the two existing Gräf&Stift wrecks in our inventory, this vehicle will be made road-worthy again.
