You don't understand: his dad had passed many years ago. He was doing the project to honor his dad. Or piss him off up in Heaven....
A ton of Ford averages out to less than 1/2 of an average Ford. Here, an eccentric Brit stuffs a German V-8 into a Duck. The nutcase even goes as far as to use the frame as an exhaust pipe:
https://nashville.craigslist.org/cto/d/1985-trabant-601s/6232101630.html more German stuff, except this one is in my neck of the woods. If it's unnerving for me to say, think of how the polish feel!
Those are cool wagons. My roommate's dad had one of those and I changed the fusebox on it. It had those fuses copied to resemble the type in VW Beetles. Well. actually they were the same. Only socialist. They're simple and reliable cars. The motive was to create a form of transportation for the masses with the least amount of moving parts to go wrong. It has a transverse leafspring pack and the vehicle hanles like a go-kart. Did you know that the last one to roll off the line had smaller displacement Volkswagen 4-cycle 4-bangers? The 1600 c.c. fuel injected version, in my Skoda, would fit, without alterations to the drivetrain. In a light car like this, it'd be a widow-making pocket rocket. If forking out over 4 grand, then these types are closer to that value: http://sparka-mobile.de/preisliste/ How about a too funny bumper video to this thread. Pardon the French, though. Parental discretion advised:
I think, the last one left the assembly line in 1989: I take it back, about the engine being a 1300 which can get replaced by a 1600. This was the 1100 c.c. engine which was factory installed. Whether or not the 1600 can replace the 1100 is yet unknown to me. Could be that the engine's basically the same, except that the later ones used a cast-aluminum valve cover, instead of a sheetmetal one: This is what the interstate in Germany used to look like:
Neat video. I love the Mercedes adorned flag poles in the beginning. So my brother, when he was visiting a few weeks back got a speeding ticket on das autobahn?? I didn't think this was possible
It depends where. If there's even a speed limit posted, one has to abide by it. Where there isn't one posted, the sky's the limit. Did you notice the SS Gestapo license plates on one of the first cars shown? This was a political video, intended.
Oh wow, I was gonna say it looked maybe early 30's? Wonder what's on those flags then?! I'm gonna watch it again. It very rare to see film credits with no Jewish names. Also wonder if any plates like that are still around, I wouldn't think they would be scrapped for the war effort if they had the ss on them. Believe it or not the nazi stuff is pretty collectible, at least around here. Every time I go to the flea market or back in the bad old days, a gun show there is always a nazi booth. For the sake of history I guess. Rednecks and nazis have a lot in common I guess.
Every German film, after Herr Hitler won his election to Reich president, became a political statement for the the NSDAP. Once he consolidated his power base, that's when Goebbels went into high gear with the propoganda machine.
Funny video. Although everyone has their traditional dance. Take the French: or the Irish: and god bless America:
