Muddy roads ahead / your contributions are welcome!

[Otto Puzzell]

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[Bill Murray]

Here is a nice 1937 Chevrolet Imperial somewhere in Russia 1941/1942.
Probably confiscated in Belgium or Holland where they were fairly popular.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Not really a car or truck but illustrative of the "Rasputitsa" as it was called, and it's effect on transportation of any kind.
Edit:  Sorry, caption should be March 1942, not 1943
Bill

[Bill Murray]

More Rasputitsa.
Not a really good photo, but I believe these are Russian prisoners being used to haul German transport vehicles through a really bad mud bog.
Bill

[Bill Murray]

More Rasputitsa, November 1941 so this is Winter Mud as opposed to the more famous Spring Mud.

Not too many prisoners yet, so the human chain is German soldiers trying to get stuff going again. At least I think they are Germans.

I cannot imagine how much energy, not to mention the fuel involved, the Germans expended trying to get to Moskva.

Even though the Russians cannibalized most of the broken down or abandoned vehicles to the best of their ability, there must have been some interesting scrap yards left in Ukraine and Western Russia after the war ended.
Bill

[grobmotorix]

 

[Bill Murray]

Hi Burkhard:

I hope you enjoy my contributions.  Sadly, they are all military and all from the Soviet Union for, as you know, WWII soft skins are my field of research.  Still, I will try to find the most interesting of the several hundred Rasputitsa photos in my Doc files.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Ussssh!!

[grobmotorix]

 

[Bill Murray]

Continuing in the "funny" mode.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Last for today.

The Hug is a US vehicle on maneuvers in 1940

Bill

[grobmotorix]

A quite unusual photo:

[Bill Murray]

Found this one today while looking for something else.
Bill

[Otto Puzzell]

It can also be found here:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=21719.msg230388#msg230388

[Bill Murray]

OOPS!!

Sorry but it was a great photo.

Bill

[Ray B.]

April showers brought May mud

The last one of this post is Louis Mattar's Cadillac. I think we may have it elsewhere on Autopuzzles.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=23914.msg262159#msg262159

[Otto Puzzell]

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[grobmotorix]

El Loco...

[grobmotorix]

A Peugeot 201 in Argentina, 1931:

[grobmotorix]

A fine mudder in 1935:

[grobmotorix]

Muddy road in Hungary in 1910:

[grobmotorix]

A nice Austro Fiat bus in 1927:

[grobmotorix]

The 1920 Targa Florio must have been a mud festival:

[grobmotorix]

Another one:

[Otto Puzzell]

Some mud is deeper than other mud.