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  1. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    These auctions are really really very bad for my nerves. There was another one for sale I was the highest bidder for a week with 290 €, then until 15 minutes before the end with 460 €. I was overbid, I put a new bid but that was immediately also raised, so somebody clearly had auto-bid on...
  2. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    I tried but lost out on an auction with two DAF YA126s, both 1957 For this green one, my bid of 560 EUR (630 $) was forever the highest bit. Then the auction day came, and I lost out very quickly. Sad but glad about that, my spouse would have killed me if I would have bought it, and I...
  3. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Three DAF YA 328 water trucks, with details of the cabin and the pump positioned where a whinch would be.
  4. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Some more details of the supporting wheel/spare. The first one shows how the wheel is nicely positioned to help raise the truck of the edges. The second shows details of the "hub" after the wheel has been removed. You can see that it is actually connected as a none-powered wheel.
  5. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Good point. As you can see from the pic now, rear wheels are permanent, front is lock and release. I added the translation in the original post
  6. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Translation - Two-Headed Monster DAF means "van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek". Van Doorrne was a genius in designing cars and trailers. He also designed the Variomatic, a fully automatic step-less transmission. As effect of this, the DAF could drive backwards as quick as forwards ... in 1958.
  7. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    There is one famous DAF family in the Nederlands: De Rooy. Jan de Rooy and his brother establsihed De Rooy Transport using DAFs. He already drove DAF cars in rally's, but switched to trucks in the Paris Dakar rally. Most famous was his double cabin version Not that it could drive both ways...
  8. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    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...
  9. Robo McDuff

    Daf

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

    Daf

    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.
  11. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Welcome to the site. Any pics of your DAF 314? Too bad I did not see that earlier, our blacksmiths (from Czech Republic) were in Salt Lake City in July.
  12. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    I found another pic of that truck, with a little bit better view of what is in the back. That 50 cal gun probably is a plastic replica. More about DAF and DAF miltary trucks you can also find on the website of the DAF Club of America. Most of that forum is dedicated to the civil little...
  13. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    11Echo, where is the location CT W.R. Nice DAF Y126. Where was the picture taken? Not really important, but do you have any more details on that car? What interests me is that this car has a Dutch military license plate of a newer type (yellow color). The plates started with KL or LM and...
  14. Robo McDuff

    Daf

    Let me open the new sub-forum with a line on this Dutch truck builder with some amazing achievements through the 20th century including some world-class trucks, the first and only factory car that drives as quick backwards as it drives forward. Last but definitely not least: an impressive record...
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