Little Trip To The Netherlands

Yep not jealous in any way whatsoever.
I spent last week in Tower Hamlets and Woolwich

 

Everyone I work for

 

I’m sorry to own up to this but I owned a DAF 33 with variable drive transmission

 

I only drove it once, I hope we can keep it between ourselves, ssssshhhh don’t tell anyone else

 

Another set of brilliant pictutes Billy, thanks for sharing.....

 

Yes, terrific pics, Billy! Some very "unique" vehicles in the bunch (understatement). As you mentioned, the one with the conservatory furniture for the interior definitely stood out. Thanks for sharing all these fun photos.

 

Didn't those go as fast in reverse as in forward?

 

I’ll be honest I never tried to go fast backwards, it was dangerous enough forwards

 

Haha! Speaking of going fast in reverse....this reminds me of something I did in my (much) younger days. One summer while I was a college student I got a job as a field inspector for Dekalb Seed Corn. My job was to go into Dekalb's corn fields in southern Minnesota to do counts of silks to help determine when to send in the detassling crews. Anyway, I drove my big old green Ford LTD (aka "boat) for my job. I'd drive into the fields on these dirt--often mud--field roads which were quite narrow. So I'd drive in forwards but had to back out to get out. Well, seeing as there was really no one around, I got so I'd try to see how fast I could drive in reverse. It was quite fun. I think the fastest I hit on one of those dirt field roads in reverse was 60 miles an hour! Wheeeee!

 

Sounds like you had good fun and little chance of any mishaps.....

 

Yes they did!
Here is a link to a populair tv broadcast we had late 70's begin 80's over here. That is where most of the DAFs' came to an end.