Russians will hate the lates

[Ratzki]

Owning a '48 Willys truck, my guess would be that the bolt on plates were probably drilled and tapped by hand with no template. My truck came from the factory with bolt holes nowhere near the same location from side to side. I have to do the funky chicken with a fender just to put it back on after I remove it as the holes don't line up. I would imagine that a 30mm plate would not bend that well to try to get the holes to re-centre. I could not imagine driving the tank for a hundred miles with the plates removed over terrible roads, with -20deg cold and then have to sort out, the jigsaw puzzle of whose plate is where and then hammer and bend to get the plates back into position. ..."Now where are those bolts for the plates?" "They were in the truck that ran over the mine, we are picking them up right now, it's a bit of a chore with a foot and a half of snow on the ground."