After the second failed attempt in 25 years, everybody agreed that the Germans shouldn’t be allowed to build airplanes, tanks, military vehicles, or anything with a sharp edge…which decimated the German national ice hockey team. In 1946 a company started building a Military…nein…it is an agricultural vehicle mein herr..ja ja, agricultural machine for zee farmers […]
Production of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog (“UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät” (Gerät meaning machine in German)) started in post WWII as agricultural equipment, specifically because Germany was forbidden from building anything with pointy edges after their second failed attempt at world domination. However, the farm tractor was just a few minor modifications away from being turned into a troop carrier […]
The Peugeot 404 was available as a convertible with a Pininfarina designed (and coachbuilt) body starting in 1963. When new, it cost as much as a Jaguar E-Type, but offered neither performance or stunning good looks of the now legendary big cat. Almost 50 years later, the 404 Convertible offers an elegant, but reserved, driving […]
The Unimog is an multi-purpose medium duty truck that was the brain child of Dr Ferdinand Unimog…no it wasn’t. It is short for “UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät” (Gerät meaning machine in German) and was originally built in post war Germany for “agricultural” purposes due to the post war anti-military production sanctions on the country that had twice tried […]
Oscar Wilde once famously wrote: “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” We at DT don’t claim to know the price of everything, but we do understand the value in nothing…more specifically information missing from a car listing. When the one-owner Peugeot 404 story posted, […]
The standard web server response to a user selecting a dead link is to generate a “404 not found” error message, but when you find a Peugeot 404, you’ve got to wonder if it was by error? Its not that the 404 is a bad car, it’s just that it is an odd car to […]
The Unimog is a multi-purpose medium duty truck built by Mercedes-Benz, the name is short for “UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät”, Gerät meaning machine in German. Unimogs have become quite collectible in the past few years and are sought after for their extreme rugged off-road and hauling capabilities. This 1965 Unimog Flatbed is offered for sale in Crossville, TN […]