Random Picture Thread

Nothing a good morning cuppa coffee couldn't cure.

 

Looks like me in the morning.

 

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We get about a dozen of these Amphicars down here every year at the annual Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival at the end of March. They're neat cars+boats, doing daily "splashes" during the show.

 

ouch !!!!

 

Kach: I bought a couple Amphis 10 years ago for $5k each..in the economic run up-and pumped by Barret Jackson idiots pumping up the prices to $66k-I sold them for many times what I paid.

I still have a Schwimmer parked in Germany...never going to sell it.

I'll dig up a pic if you like.

 

Yes, hang on to it. You never know if those polar ice caps are going to melt on us.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?19926-Ford-GPA-amphibious-jeep-restoration

 

Ach!
Un Schwimmwagen und ein Jeepenwagen, so standen sie back und nicht mit der fingerpoken und scratchen zie nice paint job! And check out the MG34.
Jeep is a better boat, since one went across the Atlantic (http://ruk.ca/content/half-safe-across-atlantic-jeep), but heavy, Schwimmer is a better cross country car maybe.
Non-amphib Kubel vs. Jeep always seems to come out in favor of the Jeep IMO.
The Kubel was cheap. Speer could build 3 for the same labor and materials as one BMW R75 motorcycle with driven sidecar. I always wanted a Schwimmer.....

 

Sitting in a yard in town here.

 

Bataan..what is that thing a mix of..and what is that front end?

I prefer the Zundapp KS750 over the BMW K75..the BMW was copied off the Zundapp.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zündapp-KS-750/70672804058

Until a few years ago there was little interest in Germany in that era stuff..I bought a KS for 3000 euros and missed a Kettenkrad for 5000 Euros by 15 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SdKfz_2

European cars/bikes/scooters/trucks from the 50's and 60's are my passion...have all manner of oddball cars I bought for little.

Now people are wanting $40k for a restored Isetta or Messerschmitt!

 

Bike is Dnepr MT16 2-wheel drive with 1977 BMW R80 800 cc engine and electrical system. Tank is from a /5. Just got the tranny rebuilt and in but have an electrical gremlin that I can't trace so today the bike is under a foot of snow.
Dnepr 2 wd is very good and rarely fails. Entire driveline is robust and the engines have excellent engineering, but later manufacturing was poor. The military bikes are uniformly well built and long lasting. They are all based on the license-built 1939 BMW R71, BMW's last flathead and first tube frame. Today's Chinese CJ750 is almost box-stock 1939 BMW, but the Russian bikes have evolved.

 

At first I though it was a Ural...and should have known it was a Dnepr, but the couple that I've seen had regular forks.

Thanks

 

Dnepr offered the swing forks as an option. I switched them out years ago since the telescopic forks are easy to bend if you off-road much. I guess this is a Bnepr since it's registered as a BMW. Dnepr is a fascinating and fun bike, once you learn to think like a Russian mechanic.

 

In Soviet Russia, bike fix you!!

Thanks for info,cool bike.....heres one of my favourite sites,they post interesting vehicles for sale,of any type.:

http://bringatrailer.com/


http://throttleyard.com/

Enjoy,all

 

My two Soviet bikes have fixed me, that's for sure. Nice sites, thanks. In 1964 a scooter shop near Market St in San Francisco imported a batch of dozens of WW2 British bikes in the crates as they had been stored in 1946. Coulda Shoulda Woulda. Triumph twins $500, Matchless single $350 etc. About 8 years later I wound up owning an Ariel 350 single that probably came from that batch, though by the time I got it the military stuff and paint was gone. I used to figure 3 repairs per mile, mostly due to Lucas Prince of Darkness, but rode it and rode it. When it seized going up a long hill and crushed the piston skirt enough to make a horrible noise, I rode on for a hundred miles to a shop I knew. I used a centerpunch making a hundred craters to knurl the piston back to size, then a file to fit it back in the bore. Started up and it ran real quiet. Guy watched me do it and then offered me a job.