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The DAFs have two very unique and brilliant enginering things, both shown in this pic. The drive train follows an H pattern. In a central differential in the middle of the car, the drive train splits to left and right. Then two distribution boxed split the power to the front and back wheels...

I first thought the difference was between the M1 and the M1A1, but the three I saw in Austria and several on internet show, I think, both models with and without split window.

Quite unexpectedly I am going to the Netherlands with my better half and two grandkids for a few days. Time to also get some stuff for the M51. I was trying to find Van Dam's surplus yard. If you want to drool from a distance, check out this google map showing their yard. They have around...

And something special: the DAF heavy wrecker: 6x6, 33 000 lbs, garwood crane

Going to van Dam Onderdelen early February, for parts of my M51A2. Saw some of my childhood memories and dream wishes there last time I was there. The DAF YA 126 Ambulance. My dream car. Only problem: originally uses the 6 cylinder Hercules gasser, using more than the average 5-ton truck.

Did you find a VIN somewhere on the frame? A VIN mentioned on an attached data shield does not have to be the real original VIN at all.

Ron used to say that jeeps (actually, CUCVs) are only good for wheel clogs for his 5+ ton. Whatever, its human emotions all the way. They drive something big but you drive something gigantic, so they drool all over it. They have to get bigger jeeps because more and more women are driving SVUs...

Nice truck, but I also like the airplane. You're going to restore it like the wrecker?

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My granddaughter would really love that truck just because of its colour. She has a color-match violin to go with it. I don't know the contract number codes, how old is this truck according the date shield you showed?

Thanks. I was just thinking that in the Netherlands you are NOT allowed to carry blue lights, even not functional, unless you are a recognized emergency vehicle or state vehicle. Official emblems often have to be removed to show that you are no longer an official town vehicle.

Narrowed it down to Tracer and Glenngineer. If it would be an older dump, would be easier. Glenngineer, some more pics?

Time for some more canvassing The wrecker (73m819) at it's standard place at the 2014 GA Rally, next to the TeePee which Ron used as his place.

I would say a truck cannot be older than a contract number (date of the start of the contract) but a contract number can definitely be older than the truck?

migginbros, what is it with the emblem of the town on your truck and the blue light? tracer, what color you used for that truck?

I saw the thing on top of a large container (or two together) and my mouth fell open like wtf is THAT??? o_O o_O

Not so quick with the dates, I ended up with almost certainly the wrong MFG date on my truck. It now mentions 1973, but that is definitely the date of overhaul. All other signs point at 1965. To quote myself from the same CARNAC thread Try find a VIN number or a hood number. When I started...

The voting is already open several hours and only two posts for canvassing. Wake up contestants, I am waiting :coffee: :roll: :coffee: Question for PB and Patracy: are the contestants automatically subscribed for the voting thread so they keep being alerted and see the need for canvassing?

This week I drove my son and one of his apprentice blacksmith students to an art exhibition in Vienna, Austria. That stuff does not really turn me on, always said I am a culture barbarian. So I used the time to visit another "exhibition": Camo, a surplus vendor just 20 km south of Vienna. Good...

Just to emphasis this for others; as mentioned earlier by Carnac and Dave Doyle, vehicle information can be incomplete or even sometimes wrong. Case in point is my M51A2. Almost certainly it was manufactured and brought into service in 1965 in the USA, and sold as surplus in 1999 or early 2000...