Any ideas about which decade?
60’s?
At first I was thinking RSO rebuilt after WW II but the roadwheels are wrong.
Is it a STZ-5?
Not Romanian is it? Seems sort of familiar (obviously I haven’t checked very much at all!)
It does have a certain Eastern aura about it.
I’ve had a look at a few - I must have been thinking (albeit vaguely) about this one - which doesn’t quite cut it:
TAR-76 apparently.
I saw that one too.
The roadwheels look like they could have come from some German halftrack.
This is a TDT-40, a USSR forestry tractor:
Not the tractor we are looking for but it gives off the same “vibes” (for lack of a better word)
I am thinking something produced post war somewhere in eastern Europe using available parts.
The roadwheels look similar to Sd.Kfz. 251
Running gear of the postwar Czech OT-810
Turn the three outer wheels inside out?
Those headlights have a Soviet feel …?
Yes, it may not be military issue at all; conceivably as you point out, a post-war lash-up utilising whatever they could find either from defunct factories or even the battlefield.