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Return of the Africar???????????
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Penman



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:59 am    Post subject: Return of the Africar??????????? Reply with quote
Hi
Could this become what the Africar didn't manage to be??????

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-37285399/f1-engineer-makes-first-flat-pack-truck
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
But why of earth give it small wheels and necessarily low ground clearance? Fine on nice graded rocks as in the video but not so fine in the real world.

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alastairq



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
peter scott wrote:
But why of earth give it small wheels and necessarily low ground clearance? Fine on nice graded rocks as in the video but not so fine in the real world.

Peter


Cost? [Especially of tyres?]

Components in drive train?? {Use of cheap. easily available drive trains?}

The Steyr Puch Haflinger doesn't so too badly with small diameter wheels?

Neither do/did Hillman Imps on Classic Reliability trials?

Even such an [in?] competent off road vehciel sucha s a land Rover has it's limitations.

It's down to driver skill not to approach those limitations.

I would suggest the average drive in Africa would cope much better with this country's potholed roads, than it appears, UK drivers do?
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Farmer John



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:28 pm    Post subject: The Ox Reply with quote
Wow! Now that is one impressive design.
Shall we use the ox or the Ox? No question.

John
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lowdrag



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did he get the design from the Unimog?
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alastairq



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Or, from William Towns' Hustler kit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_(car)

The shape isn't a unique design...like the Lotus Seven shape, it's really about form, following function?

The Steyr Puch Haflinger is the same.

The differences being, how stuff is arranged underneath?
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