Author Topic: Solved: GTE 675 - DAF Pickomatic (Pic-O-Matic) concept by Charles Burki 1970  (Read 581 times)

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Re: GTE 675
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2025, 02:06:12 AM »
This 1975 model...
It's older than that.

...was developed to explore Venus.
Venus? Sure, but none of my sources limited it to only a single planet.

The letters in the front DAF...
Yes, and therefore... :doh:

But in one arm is written something, I guess in Russian language
That's not Russian. :eyebrow:

You found the vehicle, but you also found some of the most pertinent information without even realizing it. :o

LOCKED for you to put it all together.
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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2025, 04:14:54 AM »
The info is not clear, first DAF (Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek) could it be Netherlander. As you wrote maybe late 1960's. The word written in the back looks like mirror view, but still I couldn't read it

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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2025, 04:24:14 AM »
DAF (Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek)
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could it be Netherlander.
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As you wrote maybe late 1960's.
A little later
The word written in the back looks like mirror view
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but still I couldn't read it
Keep trying. Once you know what this word is, finding everything else will be easy-peasy.

Still LOCKED for you.

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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2025, 07:04:35 AM »
DAF Pick-o-Matic 1971 Netherlands

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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2025, 12:34:53 PM »
DAF Pick-o-Matic 1971 Netherlands
Good so far, but still need the name of the creator/designer. (It was not created by DAF.)

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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2025, 12:56:16 PM »
Charles Burki
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Re: LOCKED: GTE 675
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2025, 03:16:31 PM »
Charles Burki?
:thumbsup:

In 1970, Burki created an entire lineup of imagined future DAF vehicles - Aquamatic, Aeromatic, Electromatic, Jetomatic, Rollomatic, Lunamatic, Pickomatic (sometimes Pic-O-Matic), etc.

This 1975 model was developed to explore Venus.
I see now that one of my sources (below) depicts the vehicle on Venus in particular.

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