Alby Mangels & Trabant

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brad360
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Alby Mangels & Trabant

Post by brad360 »

Now I know!

I drive a DAF (360) so i can be like Alby Mangels, (Australian film from about 1981, "World Safari"), I remember he drove a DAF with some strange transmission across africa and did some roadside repairs on rubber belts.

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Has anyone else noticed the jack is made in DDR (East Germany)? Could this be the same used for a Trabant?
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antiekeradio
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Post by antiekeradio »

yep the DAF's had a 'variomatic'

check

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomatic for some info and

http://www.dafclub.nl/techniek/techniek_variomatic.php for far better info and some drawings, unfortunately its in dutch and the babelfish translator does not work for that page :S

you might want to google images with 'variomatic' gives quite a few nice pics.

the Volvo 340 also had a variomatic, but volvo rebadged it CVT.

Greetings Wouter
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