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Demonstration of Strength
« on: July 21, 2014, 03:10:03 AM »
A famous picture showing several workers standing on top of a DKW was shown in the Advertising automobiles thread. I have collected some pictures around that theme which might be of interest. Feel free to add some more photographs. To start with, once again the DKW:
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2014, 03:15:24 AM »
... and some more:
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2014, 03:19:06 AM »
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2014, 04:35:50 AM »
Nice idea.

A Knox Martin truck test:
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2014, 05:16:35 AM »
Some more demonstrations of strength concerning the cars directly or to prove the strength of other things by using cars:

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2014, 05:29:43 AM »
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2014, 06:13:54 AM »
Some more:

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2014, 06:54:02 AM »
There are some more on my HDD :) :

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2014, 04:56:39 PM »
Another nice one:


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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2014, 02:35:13 AM »
Another pictures ! :)

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2014, 11:41:12 AM »
 :thumbsup:

Maybe you could restore the starting photo with the DKW?

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2014, 02:35:31 AM »
Done! Most of my other pics have been reposted by SACO, thanks.

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2014, 04:08:18 AM »
I had planned to make a topic on " The gang of the guys who crush cars "  ;)
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2014, 01:17:02 PM »
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2014, 04:57:51 AM »
A different demonstration of strength and a 1925 Fiat on the stairs:
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2014, 02:08:40 PM »
It looks as if the DKW guys had another try upside down (sorry for the bad picture):

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2014, 03:19:08 PM »
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2015, 03:21:35 AM »
And yet another AWZ P70 demonstration of strength and two nice Volvo experiments:
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2015, 03:47:06 AM »
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2015, 07:29:24 AM »
Ford T on stairs:

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2015, 05:23:07 AM »
A small demonstration
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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2015, 08:23:52 AM »
There's nothing new...

E.J. Pennington thought this one up in 1896.  :)


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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2015, 05:40:50 AM »
Quite impressive:

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2015, 01:04:31 PM »
More stairs:

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Re: Demonstration of Strength
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2015, 06:30:22 AM »
There are some other non-car pics, so I hope this one is OK  :)
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