This is really not a Volkswagen Transporter T1
Posted on 29-11-2015 at 13:59 by dizono – 27 Comments”
Find the better copy work today place in China, just after the Second world War they were in Austria, too. Get acquainted with the Palten-Diesel.
As Dutchmen, we continue to the but what like to repeat: the idea for the first Volkswagen Transporter came from our own Ben Pon. He saw in the VW-factory works trucks drive on the basis of Beetle-technique. In a aantekeningenboekje scribbled he busjescarrosserie on that technique and showed the drawings to the management board of VW. The rest is history.
What today is unthinkable is, was the first Volkswagen Transporter is indeed the case: he was not available with a diesel engine. Volkswagen used purely for Beetle blocks, and that came only with beninzemotoren. The Austrian Palten saw a gap in the market and designed a van, but with a diesel engine. Although, design is maybe a too big word. The agreements between the Volkswagen Transporter T1 and the Palten-Diesel are more than a coincidence.
The engine was in exactly the same place as in the Transporter, behind the rear axle. Was the T1 not very exaggerated motorized, the Palten-Diesel is still a scoop on top (or underneath it). A two-cylinder diesel -air-cooled of course – of one litre. To turbo’s, you will search for in vain, so the power is stuck on an extremely lean 20 hp. The claimed top of 75 km/h gives you probably only like the van is empty and not if you this with the maximum of 800 kilo load. Exactly how much are built? Seen the photos at least two copies, but it is missing currently each track.
Gallery: Palten-Diesel
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Transporters of wood and leather
Not only in Austria were the T1’s copied, in Germany itself they could also. East Germany to be precise. There they looked at with envy for the beautiful buses of the West-Germans. And so was many a Kübelwagen, the legacies of the Second world War, transformed into T1 look-a-like. However, with a four-cylinder boxer engine this time, but because steel precious was in the DDR, was the build-up made of leather cloth covered wood. And that could, as you see below, is still quite convincing seem.
