Photobuckey test run

Here is a short clip one that one of the Kubel Korp USA (KKUSA) members son put together. One highlight of the weekend is when all the schwimmers and the GPA take to the water and using these big honking water shooters we have a water war. Everyone gets soaked and has a hoot, great fun actually.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzD1dfjLvoo
Saturday afternoons we load all the kids (adults to for that matter) in the cars and have a huge water war with these water blasters that shoot water out about 25-30 feet.
 
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Here is a couple pictures of the Ford GPA built in 1943, the owner is German now a US citizen (he also owns a Type166 Schwimmer) . The GPA is a big car compared to the simple and little 166.

And a comparison view of VW166 and Ford GPA.

A bit of an overhead shot showing again the size differance, Water entry/exit point is to the rear of the 166.

The Nimitz at sea.

Richard, the GPA owner, takes a back seat and a 15 year old takes the helm.


The end, of the GPA (man that things big and gawky)
 
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Nice stuff! I had the pleasure of a river ride in a Duck once, very entertaining, especially entry and egress from the river with all wheels spinning. Looks like I'll have to try and find a Schwimmer fanatic to go for a cruise with! I'd love to take one fishing just for the looks you'd get!
 
Early NSU Kettenkraftrad (shortend to kettenkrad) NSU called the vehicle the Typ. HK101 and the German forces refered to it as Sd.Kfz.2 A handy little vehicle that served on all fronts during the war.

Late war (I suspect made late 1943 or very early 1944) kettenkrad.
 
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I call this mark "The sign of insanity" what i am refering to is the VW in a cog. Anyone who is "into" kubels and shcwimmers live for VW/cogged parts, its a illness like finding some rare marking on a rifle. The cogged VW symbol was the grandfather of todays VW in a circle. Postwar great effort was made to De-nazifie anything related to the nazis and that government. The cogs on the VW symbols had a checkerd nazi past so off they went and hence we have todays modern VW symbol. This part is a kubel or schwimmer rear shock absorber which was the same rear shock for both cars, even have the same part number but someone had gone to the bother of striking out the 82 (for kubels) and stamped in 166 (for schwimmers), and it gets even better, when bolted in the car that surface is against a panel so you cannot even see (not that it matters) what is stamped or not stamped. I am proud to say I have rebuilt and reinstalled my rear shocks, come on summer.
 
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cainesy said:
Wow, I'd like to take that half track for a spin, looks like a challenge to bog down.
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The trick is to NOT get bogged down. Are you talking about the 251 or the D7? The Sd.Kfz251 is less a "half track and more so a 3/4 track. While the 251 (and D7) are not front wheel driven they are still better off road then a N.American 1/2 track for a couple reasons 1. there is more track to ground contact and 2. the Germans loved their limited slip differentials so both tracks are driven. The 251 and D7 tracks also use brake steering.

The track is a very complex piece of work, and labour intensive to build and maintain, and it just seems to go on forever. It also has a super distintive sound when turning, sort of like a "bag of hammers" driving down a road.

There is a LOT of work in this picture.

Maybach 4.17L 6 cylinder, water cooled. No Tatra diesel here.


And here it is moving along, next year the body will be finished and installed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vJdKRIdRgI&list=UUs5Y49r-U47OmN7_3GV3E-g
 
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So..what's it like to drive?....gears clutch shifting steering?

I have driven a m2 Yankee half track and it's just a big truck with ####ty mirrors except for the noise
 
Last pictures before I shut this down as I believe I have this Photobucket thing down now. Here is a couple pics from a previous KKUSA family reunion. Sort of looks like a Captured Equipment Collection Point after an action in France.

The "green" schwimmer is now a correct Dunkel Gelb (dark yellow/tan) and looks about 300% better, those VW in a cog hubcaps are removed also. We where tempted to frisbee them off into the woods to help the owner get the car looking right, but he came around on his own.

My Schwimmwagen (front most DG painted) keeping good company.

Motorcycles, kettenkrad, and of course kubels.

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/
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A bit of a study/comparison of the Engelbrecht pattern tire and the "M" type tire on kubels.
 
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1942 Raupenschlepper, Ost (RSO) by Steyer, ordered, designed and put into production to counter the mud, snow and poor roads of Russia.

The RSO at the CWM gave up the measurements for the wooden cargo box. This vehicle is now marked and canvas made for it, the finishing touches.

High ground clearance is obvious, note the drivers steering bars. The vehicle is loud and hot to drive as your essentially sitting beside the motor and the dry pin dead track has a signature like you would not believe.

Time for a drive.

Just need a Panther to roll in for a refueling with a load of Jerry cans slung on onto its back deck.
 
NSU motorcycle, type unknown as I never did talk to the owner or really anyone ask about it. Of interest is the girder style fork. A FAR heavier version was used on the NSU Kettenkrad, very inetresting watching the kett/girder style fork traveling up and down on bumps but no movement of the handle bars.

Note also the NSU "swoosh" on the gas tank, Early ketts had that also but like the Willys and Ford scripts on the wartime jeep rear panel as it was not needed for the war effort so it was deleted (on Kettenkrads).

Zundap KS750, with side car. The side car wheel is driven and the motorcycle came with a locking differential for heavy going off road.

BMW R75, production ended abruptly in 1944 after a visit from the United States Army Air Corp.

Like the Zundap it has a driven side car and locking differential for off road work. It kind of weird seeing motorcycle riders in Ohio without a helmet on, trail rides are one thing but at highway drives is something else, to each there own.
Zundap, full frontal.


The motorcycle end of the line.

Kubel, loaded for bear.

 
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