What year is my WC56?

[old57XLA]

My WC56 has a body tag numbered 4219-21665. The frame is numbered 8 1 6 99562. I saw some old charts somewhere in the past, but I coudn't nail it down to a specific time. Any idea what the hood number might have (roughly) been? When it warms up a little more here in CT, I'll be doing some painting. Here's a link to some pics of the old fellow (on the second page). Thanks for any info. Hal in CT

http://halkct.myphotoalbum.com/albums.php

[Ugg]

Hal:

Go over to the Wiki site for all that good info. There's even a "How To" on getting it's build sheet.

Later

[Enigma]

the body tag says its a Recconnaissanse body (Command Car).
A built card is the way to go.

[mannyc]

my command is very similar to yours. mercedes rebuild tag on both axles. large third member in the rear, small in the front. yellow bulb headlights, and french data tags too. good to see antother one coming back. mine is almost finished. im on long island. mannyc

[Enigma]

Just looked at the pics. Sweet.
I've got a similar one.
Guess you noticed the antenne thingy being upside down and vertical?

[Tony B]

Hey Manny post the original French , Norwegian data. There are the people here to translate for you. The Merc factory did a number of rebuilds of all the WCs, possibly for Korea but a lot seem to have ended up in Norway. France used a lot, but then so did the Italians, Indians Israli etc etc not to mention the Russians! The T-214 metricated was used in Gaz and Zil up to the 1980's.