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Old 10-15-2011, 01:45 AM
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"The concept lived on well after the Vietnam War. El Salvador converted a number of M35 type vehicles into armored trucks in the 1980s, after successful conversions of Magirus Deutz trucks. These vehicles were nicknamed "Mazingers" in reference to the Japanese cartoon Mazinger Z.[8][9]
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Colombia maintains a fleet of REO M35 "Meteoro" armored trucks. These locally fabricated armored vehicles are used to guard tourist bus caravans as well as mobile checkpoints.
I see fingerprints belonging to 7th SFG(A) all over this one.

They also helped export the idea of the Q Bus that the Selous Scouts used in Rhodesia to El Salvador during the war there.
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