Otto,

Interesting about the Japanese copying the 207. When I was going through my Marine Corps officer training at Quantico, VA in 1987, we had a Russian BTR-60 8-wheeled amphibious troop carrier to play with that had been captured in Grenada. The enlisted maintainers who were responsible for it told us that they could get engine parts for it from NAPA because the Russian engines (GAZ-40P) were exact copies of the Chevy 235 (earlier babbited version) that were supplied to the Russians by the thousands via Lend-Lease during WW-2. Always fun to see that thing in the field during training. Even more fun when/if you got to ride in it!

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