- DID YOU KNOW THAT…
Although initially intended to perform as an anti-riot media for the Guardia de Asalto police, the 1936 right-wing military uprising against the Republic forced to press Bilbao cars into field service as a fighting vehicle, thus filling the Republican armor gap until the first Russian tanks were delivered.
Once withdrawn from first-line service, Bilbao cars still performed efficiently as a scout or patrol vehicles for both sides all throughout the war –for a number of them fell into Nationalist hands.