So What is This?

cris torlasco · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: So What is This?

I posted this one in the gallery and didn't get any clues. Perhaps someone here know what this 23-window look alike might be? Goliath? Mercedes?

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Cris

Scotts 63 23 · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

There's a Mercedes that resembles that in Newport Beach being used to advertise a restaurant there.

Uniballer · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

From all the time Ive spent on the samba, theres been many threads about split window bus look-alikes. From what everyone said they mostly came out of east germany during the cold war. Cheap rip offs

Friedpotatoes · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject:

looks like someone got creative with at 1948 barndoor
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KombiMonster · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject:

I don't see where there would be a decklid on it so it must have a nose under the berry bush..Take some pruns to it and some more pics..
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cris torlasco · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

Well, that's the thing...You see, I took that photo in Machu Pichu (Peru), and I doubt I'll be back there in the near future. The jungle was thick and I had no time to explore it any more. But you are right, it appears to have a front engine, whatever that means...
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Weatherly · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject:

Hi Cris, Matt here. Glad to see you're back in Eugene. How was South America? Did the diesel Vanagon hold up alright? Are you back at the same house? I'll drop by next month. That picture you posted looks to be an early '50's, German built, DKW Deluxe van; front engine. It came with a tiny 4 banger, 4 cycle water-cooled engine. If you get that body, I know where there is one in Arkansas, with the front butchered off, that has all of the glass intact. Wink

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SHSC · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject:

DKWs have a more squared off roof line and a opening rear hatch.

From the http://vintagebus.com/gallery.

It is a Mercedes, there is a restored one here in Sacramento.

This photo is also from http://vintagebus.com/.

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KombiMonster · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

I'd say SHSC nailed it....good work.
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SHSC · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

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SHSC · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject:

By the way, if you have never looked at a DKW up close and you get a chance to, do it.

And for more 319 info, go to http://www.319er-club.de/
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Weatherly · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

You're right, then I guess it is a Mercedes. I thought it was a DKW.
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cris torlasco · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:09 am Post subject:

Sounds like a Mercedes...I should have guessed it, since I have original brochures and literature for those...Have seen the DKWs in person, you can still see them every now and then in the low income neighborhoods of Buenos Aires as daily working vehicles! Hi Matt. Yes, still at the same house. Thanks all.


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