What a beast!

[trevskoda]

Seen and had a chat with this german man, old fire truck parked in Cushendun last aug 23.

 

[mark61]

Book channel crossing and come to Germany. Going to be fields of old timers in a weeks time. Few old trucks too.

 

[n brown]

here some terrible pics of motors i've fitted including my smallest a mini moke .there's a maggy deutz and a austin princess too

 

[RAW]

Looks like 16 to the gallon.

Don't think I get much more than 18 from Muriel the bus !!

 

[n brown]

a gallon of diesel will take even a thirsty motor to a different view

 

[Tezza33]

Mercedes L Series or Kurzhauber" (short-bonnet) truck

Probably less than 5mpg ....

Looks cool BUT I wouldn't want the running costs or mechanical complication (as in everything is massively over engineered and thus heavy )
And a lot of these types of trucks will never see the terrain they are capable of operating on ....
Certainly not in the UK ....

And the thought of the cost of schlepping over to Morocco or something ...at the speeds they can usually manage .

Nahh thing I'll stay with what I've got Taa

That explains why he looked miserable, I thought he was going to run me over when I took the picture of the front

 

[trevskoda]

a gallon of diesel will take even a thirsty motor to a different view

Not if its a petrol engine.