General Patton's command car up for auction

Bullfrog · May 4, 2020

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-d...car-up-for-auction-previous-owner-gen-patton/

(the) Dodge WC-57 Command Car, will be up for auction in Auburn, Indiana, on June 13.

The Command Car, a line of military vehicles manufactured between 1942 and 1945 and the predecessor of the post-war Dodge Power Wagon, would have been a noteworthy item in its own right. This one, however, was personally used during World War II by Gen. George S. Patton.

Patton’s 4x4 Command Car, which was part of the 3rd Army headquarters’ motorpool, was built in 1944 with a series of modifications to suit the general’s preferences, according to the host company, Worldwide Auctioneers.

marko · May 5, 2020

Bob A · May 5, 2020

Comes with a .30 cal Browning machine gun.

https://worldwideauctioneers.com/car-details/?id=80&rid=204

Alea Jacta Est · May 5, 2020

Too FN cool.

TheOriginalMexicanBob · May 5, 2020

A badass car for a badass general.

ToBeFree · May 5, 2020

I could probably scrape up $100 or so to contribute to the cause.

That is awesome.

Mini14tac · May 5, 2020

Very cool! Should be interesting to see what it brings and how long it will take to show up at one of the Mecum auctions.

calicojack · May 5, 2020

Maybe we could pool our money together :rolleyes:

TheOriginalMexicanBob · May 5, 2020

One would think the Patton Museum at Fort Knox or the Army Museum at Fort Belvoir would want it...maybe they do but would prefer it be donated.

cms1528 · May 5, 2020

I think that's great piece of history and it appears to have been assigned to Patton's motor pool, very likely it was used by Patton but no proof of that is really definitive. The papers on the auction site leaves some question about it to me.

Mightydog · May 5, 2020

Looks wrong....only three stars.

Bullfrog · May 5, 2020

Mightydog said:
Looks wrong....only three stars.

For the vast majority of the time he commanded the third army he was a 3 star... he was only awarded the 4th about 3 weeks before Germany surrendered.

Maybe he was using a different vehicle by that time, or this is how they chose to restore it. :shrug:

Mightydog · May 5, 2020

Wonder what happened to the one he had his “accident” in? Probably destroyed to get rid of the evidence.

TheOriginalMexicanBob · May 5, 2020

The Cadillac Patton was riding in when the collision occurred is on display at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. It was repaired after the accident.

Drmsparks · May 6, 2020

there is actually no provenience for this one....yet. It's association with Patton is only a guess at this point.

Doco Overboard · May 7, 2020

Drmsparks said:
there is actually no provenience for this one....yet. It's association with Patton is only a guess at this point.

Didn't the one in the museum come from France some time after the war and has something a 38 or 39 front end on it?
I cant remember if the front end was swapped before or after arrival to the museum.
I thought I read some time ago the one there was just a Staff car and couldn't be linked to Patton for sure but a good representative example none the less.

Anyway the same material went on about Patton's driver then how Patton himself stopped the investigation and then into the conspiracy theories behind the whole incident dismissing them more or less.

He was going hunting.

Drmsparks · May 7, 2020

apparantly when he had it built it was extensively photo documented and had some unique modifications (floor cut out and replaced to up armor and some other things). curious why they have not verified.

General Patton's command car up for auction

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