Dodge WC63
The Dodge WC63 was a type of truck manufactured on Earth by the American Dodge Company during the mid-20th century for that nation's US military. They were powered by an internal combustion engine.
In an alternate 1944 caused by the Temporal Cold War, the Na'kuhl leader Vosk used a by the German SS operated Dodge WC63 truck, carrying the license plate "NA 43212", to transport the captured Ensign Travis Mayweather and Commander Charles Tucker III of Enterprise NX-01 to a meeting with Captain Jonathan Archer in a wooded area outside New York City. Vosk erroneously believed that he could exchange his prisoners in return for help in getting his people home to their own timeline. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")
Background information
The entire prisoner exchange scene was filmed on Monday 26 July 2004 in Griffith Park, along with the other forest scenes featured in the previous part, "Storm Front". [1] [2](X)
The license plate, "NA 43212", does not conform to real-life German license plates. During the time of Nazi Germany, civilian vehicle license plates began with a code that indicated the region where the vehicle was registered. Additionally, vehicles registered to the Heer [Army] had the prefix "WH", and those registered to the SS had the prefix "SS". [3](X) "NA" was never used as a license plate prefix in real life, yet several German vehicles in Star Trek appear with license plates having the prefix "NA".
In total 43,000 units were produced of this 1.5 ton load carrying, six-wheel drive light truck between 1943 and 1945, together with its immediate predecessor, the WC62, which only lacked the winch on the front. Phased out in the 1960s, very few were ever converted for civilian use, but many ended up in museums or private collections, including the rented one featured in the Star Trek episode. Germans using American-made trucks is not as far-fetched as it may seem at first glance; during World War II, the German military made extensive use of captured enemy vehicles of all kinds (trucks being especially coveted, as they had always been in relatively short supply to the German military), having even invented a term for them, "Beutefahrzeuge", which translated as "booty vehicles", and fitting them into their ordnance designation system. The in the episode featured truck would have administratively been known to the Germans as a "LLkw 1,5t WC63(a)" or "Leichte Lastkraftwagen (= light truck) 1.5 ton WC63 (amerikanisch)".
A lighter sibling of the Dodge WC63 was the half-ton load carrying Dodge WC4 munitions carrier, seen in "Storm Front".