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General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: rob650 on October 30, 2009, 10:39:47 PM

Title: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: rob650 on October 30, 2009, 10:39:47 PM

Interesting article about a prototype farm vehicle Chrysler sold in Europe for a short time in the 50's/60's

http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/farmobil.html

Title: Re: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: Ed Miller on October 31, 2009, 08:03:54 PM

Cool.  Sort of like the modern Gators and stuff, though they seem more like toys to me.  I like it's PTO options....  I have a PTO that I'm putting on my old Chevy truck to run a winch.  It's funny when you read the old ads; it's like they're almost trying to compete with tractors.

Title: Re: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: Bob_Roller on October 31, 2009, 09:10:24 PM

If you're an aviation aficionado, there was a BMW boxer engine used as the 'starter motor' for the Messerschmitt Me-262 the first jet fighter used by Germany in WWII .

If you watch the 'Military Channel' you may see this, there was a 'D' ring, on the 'bullet' on the front of the jet engine, you pulled this 'D ' ring, and it was a rope type pull starter for the boxer starter engine .

The ignition for the starter engine, was controlled by a switch in the cockpit .

Don't know what kind of clutch was used to engage the starter to the engine gearbox .

Title: Re: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: Bing on October 31, 2009, 09:38:43 PM

It looks like a baby pinzgauer to me.

Title: Re: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: Altritter on October 31, 2009, 09:40:25 PM

Wow! I recall seeing one or two of those things when I was in Germany in the 70s. Didn't know what they were.

Consider the first sketch in the attachment. It seems s-o-o-o appropriate to anyone who lived in rural Germany at that time that the first application that would come to mind is to put a tank on it and use it for a "honey wagon."  ;D

Title: Re: 60's farm truck w/BMW R67 engine
Post by: Hunsta on November 04, 2009, 04:07:01 AM

also looks alot like the Haflinger

Dating from 1958 to 1976 and built by Steyr Daimler Puch, the Haflinger is a pocket - size 4WD that four strong men can lift. Mechanical muscle usually means increased weight which can leave wheels churning impotently in mud or sand. The Haflinger took the other tack - adding lightness means the vehicle often walks through trouble and, if not, it is at least easy to extract on those "bad 4WD days

soft-top, 2 seats + 2, 2 "doors"
loa: 2830mm, width: 1350mm, height: 1740mm (canopy)
wheelbase: 1500mm, track: 1130mm/1130mm, grnd clearance: 240mm
approach: 45, departure: 40
air-cooled, 643cc, petrol, 2-cyls, carb', 2-valves/cyl, ohv
bore: 80mm, stroke: 64mm, c.r.: 7:1 (or 6.7:1 or 7.8:1)
power: 24ps at 4500rpm
transmission: 4m, part-time 4WD
suspension: swing axles & coils, brakes: drum/drum