Late Night Photodump Pt. 44

"slipperysallylikespenguins" (slipperysally) 12/15/2016 at 00:17 • Filed to: None

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Nauraushaun > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 00:30

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It was a simpler time when you could drive your motorized carriage right up to the airship. Before there were groups of nutters who wanted to blow it up.

Man, explaining terrorism to a kid must be hard.

Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 00:41

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The number of times I thought “I don’t know what that is but I want it “

slipperysallylikespenguins > Nauraushaun 12/15/2016 at 01:09

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It had to have been incomprehendible back then to think of such things.

slipperysallylikespenguins > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 01:32

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*Incomprehensible*

pip bip - choose Corrour > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 04:30

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them Benz utes!!! GIB!!!

Nauraushaun > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 06:40

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It’s incompodfhneible now, we’re just used to it :<

AuthiCooper1300 > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 08:17

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Interesting picture about the famous (or rather, infamous) 220D Pickup. I wondered what Paul Bracq thinks of it?

Mercedes-Benz opened its first plant outside Germany in Argentina (!), in 1951. At first they built taxis and trucks out of CKD and SKD kits; later they started the production proper of heavy lorries and chassis for buses.

(Unfortunately for Mercedes-Benz its industrial presence in Argentina became a sort of job centre/distribution hub for quite a few war criminals, the most notorious and probably better known a certain Adolf Eichmann. He even had some managing position there.)

No W114/W115 were ever built in Argentina. It seems “la pick-up” – produced in the González Catán factory near Buenos Aires– was built by cutting the W115 body aft of the B-pillar (at least for the single cab models; there were also some DoKa ones) and grafting a locally-designed and -made bed. The cars or at at least the bodies-in-white must have come straight from Germany; the South African factory in East London was obviously closer but I bet they only made RHD vehicles.

AuthiCooper1300 > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 08:46

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That exposed-frame bike... I see the orange colour and the droog moniker and I instantly think of Burgess (or at least, SK).

Of course, Alex’ conveyance of choice was a nicked Durango 95, not a motorcycle : http://www.adamsprobe.com/adams_probe_16.html

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 10:26

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Never stop.

slipperysallylikespenguins > AuthiCooper1300 12/15/2016 at 18:04

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The Argentinian and Brazilian auto industry has always fascinated me. Everything they built was based on American or European platforms yet they were so unique to that market.

slipperysallylikespenguins > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/15/2016 at 18:15

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That’s the plan. :)

AuthiCooper1300 > slipperysallylikespenguins 12/15/2016 at 18:26

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The Brazilian car industry has ended up being the more creative and interesting of the two, due in no small part to Argentina’s economy (and society) becoming stagnant for such a long time.

But yes, some interesting variations there, such as the VW Brasilia and Alfa Romeo-FNM 2300 (Brazil), the IKA Torino and, of course, the many-times restyled Ford Falcon or Peugeot 504 (Argentina).