Following the campaign of 1941 Romanians realised that they lack anti-tank weapons effective against Soviet medium and heavy tanks.
As neither Germany was in a better situation and could not provide Romania new tanks and anti-tank guns, Marshal Antonescu suggested the local production of a tank similar to the Soviet T-34.
Unfortunately the Romanian industry and resources could not meet such a daring project.
By the end of 1942 there was available a large amount of captured material, including 175 tanks and 154 artillery pieces.
Having these resources at his disposal, Lieutenant-Colonel Constantin Ghiulai was charged to design a self-propelled anti-tank gun.
For the chassis he chose the T-60 Soviet light tank as being accessible to the Romanian industry.
The engine of vehicle was GAZ 202, licensed Dodge-Derretto-Fargo FH2, for which there were enough spare parts in Romania and Germany.
The main armament was the Soviet 76.2mm F-22 field gun model 1939, with 38 pieces available in a warehouse in Targoviste.
The crew-protecting shield was made of 15mm armour plates salvaged from BT-7 tanks.
The new vehicle was designated Tun Anticar pe Afet Mobil T-60 (Self-propelled Gun on Mobile Carriage T-60) or TACAM T-60.
The project was accepted and twenty-three serviceable T-60 tanks were sent to Leonida Works in Bucharest.
On 12 January 1943 the prototype was completed and other eleven T-60s were sent for conversion.
In late June, the first seventeen TACAMs were distributed to the Mechanised Training Centre and to the 1^st Tank Regiment for evaluation and training.
The other seventeen TACAMs were assembled by the end of 1943.
Sixteen TACAM T-60 were distributed to the 1^st Tank Regiment and formed the 61^st Tank-destroyer Company and eighteen TACAM T-60 were distributed to the 2^nd Tank Regiment where they formed the 62^nd Tank-destroyer Company.
They saw action on the Bessarabian and Moldavian front from February to August 1944.
The Soviets confiscated the surviving TACAM T-60s in October 1944.