Topic: Puzzle #630 - Solved! DAF Prototype

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

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[Tuckeroo]

I believe it's a DAF-kini circa 1949.

[Otto Puzzell]

(kini?)

[guido66]

My first puzzle here 

1 point is yours if you name this car...

[guido66]

I'm sorry, but it's not a Kini

[guido66]

What about a DAF Regenjas?

Close enough 

It's actually a DAF prototype with (to my knowledge) no official model name, only the nickname "De rijdende regenjas", which means "The driving raincoat"

[DynaMike]

According to my info this prototype was develloped during WWII, and a series of 1000 of these was planned to be rpoduced after the war. It had a 125 cc two-stroke engine and the price should be hfl.350,-. Its name should be Dafke (little Daf in local dialect). Since the series was never produced Huub van Doorne (Dafs founding man) gave it as a present to a circus clown, who used the thing during many years. On the photograph in the background of the pic you can see how it looked when it was a circus attraction.

[metalshapes]

Huub van Doorne (Dafs founding man)

DAF (van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek) was founded by Huub and his brother Wim.

[Otto Puzzell]

Merged

[pnegyesi]

Dafke in Hungarian slang used to mean someone who did something though (s)he was advised not to do it, but "dafke" (just because) (s)he went ahead and did it.

I don't think it is being used these days and I also think it comes from German

[grobmotorix]

This is how it has looked like in the end of the 1970´s.

Does anybody know, when it has been restored back to the original specs?

[gte4289]

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