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 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 1:59 pm Post subject: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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What is this ?
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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Well duh, it's an HKR 2, says so right on the side! 
Looks to me like a rig for painting road lines, paint pressure pot, air tank and folded up device with an extension for following a line, assumedly there's a compressor hiding in the back too.
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FarmerBill
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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| That sure looks like a traffic marking paint rig to me. A friend of mine used to paint parking lots and that looks like a bigger version of his machine. |
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BonTonRoulet
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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I agree it's a road striping rig.
For what it's worth I've seen an engineless VW bug outfitted to do the same thing although it was towed behind another vehicle.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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Reminds me of the Barndoor buggy
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FarmerBill
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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| I wonder how much of that rig is VW? It certainly raided the parts bin but that front axle looks like it came off of a hay wagon. |
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Bulli Klinik
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:10 am Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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Deluxe hubcaps and Kubel headlights.
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finster
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:20 am Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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finnish forum has it as - the Zindel-Highway road marking device. Acquired for the city of Helsinki in 1960. The engine is a 30 hp industrial engine, top speed 20 km/h (compressor slows down driving).
from this photo, of a different zindel model, we can see that zindel were based in stuttgart in the 50s
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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The machine riding in the trailer is similar, but not the one in the top pic.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: What is this model at the factory ? Some sort of work truck ? |
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the finnish forum had the op's photo (google image search). the photo of the oval and trailer was to show the manufacturer 
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