Road trip to Italy

The other day I was thinking about some of the cars that I have owned, and I came across this old photo.

One winter in Germany when I was in the army, some friends and I decided to take a trip to Italy.
We got this great old vehicle ( I have not a clue what it is ) for almost nothing, I suppose because only the front brakes were operable. But it got us over the Brenner pass in Austria, from Germany to Italy and back, after a fashion.