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Offline hermanoto

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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2013, 09:20:08 AM »
type of model: Daf-special with barrel-body (translated from dutch) named by Hans Huggenholtz who road-tested the 'Variomaton',  DAF 750 engined, vehicle. It took 13.4 secs from 0-50 km/h. Max speed 75km/h (wind in the back) at Zanvoort racing circuit.

'Rijdende bierton' translated: 'roadgoing-beer-barrel'

No other name then 'Variomaton' is known to me  and common for this vehicle. Recent we found an old movie where my dad filmed my brother inside the barrel +/- 1965 at an event in Vught, the Netherlands.
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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2013, 11:58:16 AM »
By coincidence I was looking at some secondhand books in a shop today, and found a picture of this promotional vehicle in one of them.

It was referred to there as the Vatmobile. Is that the name you are looking for?
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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2013, 06:01:29 PM »
 :bump:
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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #28 on: October 08, 2013, 06:34:41 AM »
Djetset?
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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2013, 05:57:46 PM »
Last bump, then I give up...  :(

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Re: Djetset #344
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2013, 11:20:50 AM »
Sorry, I've been out of action for a little while!  Anyway, Vatmobile was the name I was lookign for, so a well-earned point to Tom-I, and thanks for your patience everyone.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile'
« Reply #31 on: October 31, 2013, 01:52:24 PM »
Something much like it, if not the same one, was the subject of one of Autosport's Christmas Road Tests in the 1960s. Can't remember what John Bolster made of it, but he'd have had a pint or ten before starting it to show fellow feeling. :drive:
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile'
« Reply #32 on: December 03, 2013, 04:16:14 PM »
Alright, well then you could add it was made by ATAF.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF
« Reply #33 on: October 17, 2017, 03:47:57 AM »
I have taken some pictures of this vehicle.


It was designated "Variamaton" here, during the DAF museum days
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF
« Reply #34 on: October 28, 2017, 04:38:41 PM »
No visible puzzle photo...

Some more nice contemporary photos:
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