The DAF 600 was sometimes was also called the "truttenschudder" wich is dutch for "bitch shaker" because it shook a lot and was mostly driven by old ladies.
@@LouisSubearth they didn't have Irish roots, the ford family lived in Ireland for a time as English colonists before moving onto America like most Anglo Irish
Daf 44 was the first car of my family. My father was born with the right arm shorter than usual and he could drive only automatic cars. Daf was the cheapest automatic in the market. As you said it wasn't aggressive at all, but it was roomy and drunk few gasoline, so it was perfect for us. Ten years later when I was 18 it became my very first car.
In the early 1960s, my uncle actually bought a DAF that was imported to New Jersey. It was the “Daffodil”. I recall riding in it and it had trouble on the hills in Eastern Pennsylvania, where he visited us. It was really small but my uncle loved it.
Proud to be Dutch 🇳🇱! Fun fact: a Dutch nickname for the DAF car was "truttenschudder met jarettelaandrijving," for which Google Translate gives "bitch shaker with suspender [of ladies stockings] drive" - grannies in DAFs were spotted wearing a motorcycle helmet…
I would like to add one or two remarks to this great vid. The Tesla establishment near Tilburg didn't produce Models S and X but assembled them. This was to circumvent Dutch import tariffs. It was recently announced that they would close, presumably because of the new factory in Berlin. And a new Dutch car has been announced, the all-electric solar Lightyear One. It grew out of the solar car by the Solar Team Eindhoven, which participated in the Australian World Solar Challenge.
I recently acquired 70s British/Dutch crime drama Van Der Valk on DVD. During the first two series, Van Der Valk travelled around the city of Amsterdam in DAF cars. The criminals he was after were also using DAF cars. I thought at the time that DAF only made trucks. When Series three came along (1977)Van Der Valk had traded his DAF for a Ford Cortina and I wondered why? So thanks for clearing up the DAF car company story. Loving your work, keep it coming.
Fun fact. The Netherlands had a car company named isis that made road legal track cars. They made a model called the isis sniper but strangely disappeared in the 2010’s.
Portuguese plates were black with white letters, but in Holland it was very dark blue instead. Otherwise kind of yes, apart from in Portugal it was always like BN-09-31 with the letters in front from were you can see or read the registration year, vs in Holland the letters could be in front, in the middle or at the end. The Portuguese No. shown here was btw my last Portugal owned car I had, a Ford Granada 2.8Ghia '81. One out three ever registered ones... On the newer plates and later the EU plates it changed in Portugal and in Holland, like Portugal 46-CP-90 white (plus registration date in small on the right on yellow ground), or Holland 85-EXP-9 yellow plates... The best part of Portuguese automotiv history in my view was the UMM. But hmm, with technic from Peugeot... Até logo...
@@aga_100kr I never owned one, but as a mechanic I got plenty in my hand for test drives. I made a slow climbing competition in my country side. UMM vs Land Rover Defender vs Jeep Wrangler vs Toyota BJ40. UMM was the only one who past all extreme parts. The only one that did better was MB G300, of course, nothing in that class can beat them... ;-) I know the Portuguese government sucks, just like all gov., but by knowlege it was Peugeot who did shut down the partnership with UMM and they coudn't survive by its own. I remember back in early 2000, you could still order a new one and wait till it's produced, but no more production on hold. I'm pretty sure the EU stopped it for good with all their effed up regulations... !?!
@@PeteDarrell1972 there were a lot of factor that lead to the UMM's fall, i don't know this case that well, but one thing is certain, small business aren't worth EU's investment, the bigs companies are the money making machines, thus the ones funded
@@aga_100kr No body would need EU investments if the EU wouldn't over regulate everything! Just think back to the 80s when UMM was still strong, plus there were alot local driven assembly plants, like the ones that converted MBs an BMWs into station wagons and not to forget the goog ol' R4L that was produced in Portugal till the mid 90s, ten years longer as is France, the 'poor mans Jeep' that was all over the place. Today? What I know there's only VW left with the production of the Scirocco, or was that already yesterday ?! Yeah, the big swallows the small is all over the place, not only in the car industrie. Make the big bigger and let the small die off, and Brussels is the helping motor to push it! Most countries, but especially Portugal, were much better off in many ways before the EU...
Wife had a daff 55 in the 70s she adored it. She was a driver for a car parts firm, there van was a daff, she was so impressed with it she went out and bought the car version.
Talking about your grandfather and his family cramming into the little car reminding me of back in the 1970s when we took a vacation with my sister and brother-in-law. We drove from East Texas to Washington DC where he was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in a Dodge duster two-door. There was my sister, my brother-in-law, their daughter, my mom, myself, and a toy poodle. Along with all of our luggage. That car was packed like a can of sardines, we were actually riding with luggage filling the trunk and in the backseat along with my mom and myself who had to they are arms and elbows on top of suitcases because there was just no room left in the car. Even the back deck behind the back seat was completely filled. And the only thing worse than that was our trip back home where me and Mom rode a passenger bus 38 hours straight with a layover at 2:00 a.m. for them to clean and service the bus so we couldn't even sleep. Washington DC was great but the trip was something I would never do again ever! LOL
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I miss Daf. The Danish postal service used Daf 33 vans when I was a child. The smaller Daf’s were really unique and charming. Low center of gravity with their boxer engines, transaxle with the variomatic at the back. What more could one want for? Maybe a slightly less temperamental rear suspension but one cannot have everything 😃
I believe the later Dafs replaced the squirrely independent rear suspension with a de Dion layout, which concept was used in the later larger 340 series, so it must have worked well.
Entertaining. Informative. Had a friend in the last quarter of the 20th century, who was into Daf vans. Had a rake of them. Made one into a saw for his firewood. The Daf van going backwards, was excellent on steep slopes in the winter; going up slopes defeating other 4-WD vehicles. The transmission-to-wheel torque delivery was just so sensitive and progressive.
0:21 VW used to tout the fact that its Beetles could, at least for a while, float. I don't know if that's still true, but it must be a good selling point in a country that's half below sea level.
Yup--the Beetle was watertight--so tight that slightly opening a window made it easier to close the door, in fact. Its reputation for buoyancy was used in a joke by "National Lampoon" magazine that got it in trouble--it ran a fake VW ad that showed Senator Ted Kennedy in a VW in water and said something like "Teddy would be President today if he'd been driving a Volkswagen." VW, not Kennedy, sued.
Just come across this channel. Super video telling an interesting story in a very entertaining way. I remember these quirky little DAF cars in the UK in the 60's and 70's but can't remember seeing them being driven backwards!
3:26 i dont know how but yes in former yugoslavia families travel everywhere with zastava 750/fiat 600, my grandfather has Lada 1200 they were traveling in big comfort unlike fiat 600 owners
Thank you for your "Saab story" pun. It leaped to my mind just before you said it, and a young whippersnapper like you coming up with the same made me feel a tad less old for having an enormous treasure trove of dad jokes lurking in my head.
When possible I go visit the DAF museum in Eindhoven. Been to Louwman in The Hague , highly recommended! Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse (CH) is also on my list.
Hey one of your southern neighbors here could you do a video on the Belgian car industry I think that would also be very interesting I always love watching your videos your channel is really underrated
I love all of your vlogs!. Your sense of humor is appreciated, as well as all of the graphics, believe me. Seeing what happened in other parts of the world with cars is very interesting. Buy the way, my parents bought a Volkswagen bug for my Mom to drive in 1960. They bought another one in 1968. I loved to drive those cars! The heater was crap, but they were fun to drive.
In Canada, the Ski-Doo, a snow scooter made by Bombardier, uses a CVT transmission the same type of DAF one. It is simple and no issue with low temperature.
Just a little titbit of information that may interest you. In 1964, I was only a 13 year old boy, Gillespie's of Port Moresby (PNG) had two early model Dafs on the showroom floor, manufactured in right hand drive. It took more than 6 months to sell the little cars and I never met the buyers to find out how reliable they were. So, for some odd reason, Daf exported a couple of examples to the colony of Papua. Gillespie's also sold Jaguar cars in the early 1960s. I enjoyed you presentation. Cheers.
Dankie Ed. Same years ago, i also look into History on the Nederlandsche Motorvoertuigmark. South African Republic in Pretoria (1854-1902) had the help of Dutch Companies 4 the railway between Johannesburg/ Pretoria and Lorenzo Marx, Mozambique.
I own a Volvo 360 1986, and its a dutch made car. Hugely underrated car. A friend of mine loved it som much that she bought a 345 herself. My car has a 2.0 volvo redblock, and it really kicks that small car!
Years ago (early 70's) a friend had a DAF, just like the one in the picture. Flat twin engine. His carburetor died, so I gave him a carb from a 61 VW bus (36 hp). It was like a Holley Dominator 4 bbl in comparison to the DAF carb! No way would it fit. Don't remember if he got it fixed. He also always had problems with the drive belts coming off. Lucky there was an access panel in the floor to get to them. Cool Car!
The Van Doorne brothers didn't invent the CVT, they were just the first to adapt it to automotive use. CVT's had been in use for machine tool transmissions (lathes, mills, etc.) for almost a century by that point.
It was a Dutchman that came up with the Transporter for VW. He used the motorised platform vehicles that moved stuff around VW factory, and drew the original T2 Van.
You're referring to the Dutch VW importer Pon. And whilst it is true the VW van was his idea, he really had nothing to do with the development process at all. All he did was whilst sitting down in a bar with a German VW exec was explaining how he envisioned a van coach on the beetle chassis and doodled the idea on a napkin. The Germans liked the idea and ran with it. That's all.
I remember backward racing when I lived in the Netherlands in the early 80s... absolutely crazy and cool on so many levels. DAF are still very active on the truck/lorry market where they have a very good reputation and considerable market share (16%+) in Europe, placing them among the top-3 heavy truck manufacturers.
A bit of trivia: DAF Trucks has been owned by American heavy truck manufacturer PACCAR (who also owns Peterbilt and Kenworth) for well over 25 years (Leyland Trucks was owned by DAF when they were bought, so PACCAR owns it as well). I was a security guard at the now-closed Peterbilt plant in Nashville (several years ago, the city bought the campus and its buildings and other parts of the property were converted to a Metro Police precinct [the former "test"/rework building], a Metropolitan Transit Authority maintenance depot [the former office building and the plant itself], and a Nashville Electric Service service depot [newly built a few years ago on the old test track/trailer lot]) from 1996 to 2001 and I remember when PACCAR announced the DAF/Leyland purchase.
Brilliant, well researched, and HILARIOUS. Enjoyed many other chapters and dismissed the Dutch car history because, well, what could be interesting-or even, what could be entertaining-about Dutch cars? Finally clicked on it and laughed through the whole thing. Learned something, too. Can’t wait for my next cocktail party and the chance to test the attendees on their knowledge of CVT trivia! CVT trivia… isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Volvo continued car production in the Netherlands after DAF had bitten the dust, with the 340 series being straightforward a DAF model and I think the later 400 series was also a Dutch product.
My grandfather purchased a Toyota awhile back. This was strange to us as he grew up in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, with my great grandfather dying in a concentration camp. He is a very wise man and said he only bought the car because it was manufactured in an old DAF factory. He is very smart and also work as an engineer on the Delta Works.
I win! (I swear I didn't look before I figured this out). I couldn't figure out your accent to save my life; it sounded vaguely Russian, but most Russians aren't as fluent in English (or if they are, they've also managed to get rid of the accent). Please understand, you have very little accent, and your English is probably better than my Dutch (which doesn't suck; I may have been born in Ohio, but I grew up in Den Haag (De Vogelwijk), Voorburg and Wassenaar). But then, you said "van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek". Just like that. And suddenly, it was all clear; you had to be Dutch. No one who was not Dutch could say that and not stumble at least a little bit; you stumbled not at all. Bravo! I really enjoy your content, thanks, and subscribed!
hey, i been many times inside the DAF/Volvo...i couldnt read at that time, and its 50 years ago, but family friends owned one, they took us kids to the beach in Flensburg, a privat beach!
The truck side of DAF was sold to USA based Paccar in the 1980's, the maker of Peterbuilt and Kenworth trucks. I don't know who ended up with the bus side (Volvo ?). A few DAF's were sold in the USA, but didn't last long due to problems with the belt CVT systems. CVT's are now very common in several car brands, especially Nissan, Honda, Kia/Hyundai.
As to national car companies...some fairly big developed countries lack those too, besides the Netherlands. Canada, for instance. Closest we've come in relatively recent times was the brief Bricklin effort in New Brunswick circa 1975; before that, Studebaker's Canadian plant in Hamilton was the company's sole main assembly operation from January 1964 through March 1966 when the American board killed the car division outright; the Hamilton-only Studes were advertised here as "Canada's Own Car" during 1965 and '66...
I had a 55 with the 1300 Renault engine it too was very good in mud and ice conditions and wasn't slow at all. The 66 was fitted with a diff while the earlier models relied on belt slip that behaved like a limited slip diff normally fitted to high performance cars giving that good traction. A great car and my family loved it.
Ah yes, achteruitrijracen. I've been to one of those at the Zandvoort circuit. It was hilarious. I also have fond memories of the Neerlands Hoop sketch about a 'kanariegele DAF'.
The DAF 600 looked like a car with a chip on it's shoulder. Can't blame it. CVT's make sense, but do we want our cars to make sense? I think not. Just stumbled on to this channel and I love it. I got a lot of laughs out of this and the American "Malaise" video part 1. Subscribed. Gearheads of the World Unite!
Not to mention the "jarretelaandrijving" or garter belt drive. ;-) But, I'm proud my mom owned two Daf's a 1969 33 and a 1975 44. Very well made, nice cars. Proud to be Dutch!
I'm not sure which was actually the first, but my second motor scooter I owned in 1965 was a DKW Hobby, made in Germany in 1957, and it had - wait for it - a CVT transmission, exactly like the DAF! A friend of mine also had a Hobby, it was almost identical but made by Manurhin in France.
You could make it even more Dutch by welding a trailer hook to the front bumper and go caravan backwards racing. Luckily when I was a child - obviously about 2 decades earlier than you - German ARD aired the Dutch summer fun of "On land, at sea, and in the air" (Te land, ter zee en in de lucht). A fun game mixture of games comparable to today's Red Bull Flying Contest, dragon boat races and stock car racing. And for the car part the caravan backwards race was for sure the highlight.
The Variomatic transmission was not just a variable-belt drive, like on lathes--it added the automatic feature--that was new. They oversold it at firs--it was claimed to eliminate the differential, with a belt drive to each wheel, but that was asking too much if it. For one thing, it was torque-limited, and couldn't take the stresses imposed by the final stepdown gearing to the wheels, which multiplied the torque, of course. But it worked well with low-power engines. The automatic was a good fit for a market of buyers who had not previously driven cars. One huge advantage of an automatic transmission was that it helped resale value--a buyer of a used car could be confident that the engine had not been over-revved.
Ok Ed. My dad got his first car in the early 50's in Amsterdam. It was a Beetle. So we went on trips. Oma, Opa, Mom and Dad, and us two kids, all wearing winter clothes. It was crowded but we didn't care. We had a car!
2 small additions. Daf pretty much lost its 'slow and girly' image in 1967, after competing and even winning rally races with the Daf 55. Secondly, since 2019 the Netherlands has a brand new carbrand called Lightyear. It's been said to be the Tesla killer, a car on solar energy. It's actually produced and for sale.
1:08 - That very ornate gold horse-drawn carriage, if I'm not mistaken, was used forever as the logo for the Fisher Body Company of the USA, which was a subsidiary of General Motors. The "Body by Fisher" trademark was embossed on the metal doorsills of the front doors of GM cars, with this carriage inside an oval frame.
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Agreed - I just found this channel myself a few days ago and now am binge watching it.
Fun channel Ed!
This is the best story AND comedy of the month! Thanks!
And let's keep it that way, otherwise it'll be ads every five minutes
It’s like regular car reviews on adderall
I would listen to any topic Ed makes, I love his since of humor! Very refreshing!
The DAF 600 was sometimes was also called the "truttenschudder" wich is dutch for "bitch shaker" because it shook a lot and was mostly driven by old ladies.
To be more precise the rear would shake when driving away. They made the car populair by putting it in a rally (?) and race.
LOL
I called my grandma oma Daf because she always drove a daf later a Volvo daf
Tuntenschleuder
Why not the DAF Daffy?
"It seems like every industrialized country has it's own national car company."
*Proceeds to show the UK with the Ford logo.*
Ironically Henry Ford has Irish roots. That's also why Ford's first European factory was in Ireland.
And Portugal with Renault... A very Portuguese name. Very portuguese indeed
And PSA is no where to be seen.
The image was of the best selling brand, in most countries, but not all, coincides with the national brand.
@@LouisSubearth they didn't have Irish roots, the ford family lived in Ireland for a time as English colonists before moving onto America like most Anglo Irish
In Britain Ford is often considered British albeit some would say its incorrect these days when they don't make a single car now
Daf 44 was the first car of my family. My father was born with the right arm shorter than usual and he could drive only automatic cars. Daf was the cheapest automatic in the market. As you said it wasn't aggressive at all, but it was roomy and drunk few gasoline, so it was perfect for us. Ten years later when I was 18 it became my very first car.
In the early 1960s, my uncle actually bought a DAF that was imported to New Jersey. It was the “Daffodil”. I recall riding in it and it had trouble on the hills in Eastern Pennsylvania, where he visited us. It was really small but my uncle loved it.
Consumer Reports rated these unsafe as 0-60 took almost 30 seconds. Like a diesel Chevette!
man this channel needs 1M subs. keep going dude, A+ automotive provenance content
Proud to be Dutch 🇳🇱! Fun fact: a Dutch nickname for the DAF car was "truttenschudder met jarettelaandrijving," for which Google Translate gives "bitch shaker with suspender [of ladies stockings] drive" - grannies in DAFs were spotted wearing a motorcycle helmet…
I would like to add one or two remarks to this great vid. The Tesla establishment near Tilburg didn't produce Models S and X but assembled them. This was to circumvent Dutch import tariffs. It was recently announced that they would close, presumably because of the new factory in Berlin. And a new Dutch car has been announced, the all-electric solar Lightyear One. It grew out of the solar car by the Solar Team Eindhoven, which participated in the Australian World Solar Challenge.
Sommige dingen kan je gewoon niet vertalen 😂
Now they're spotted with a covid mask on, driving alone
My old Mitsubishi is a Dutch car. Not a bad motor. My grandfather had a DAF after many Skodas. It was in a lovely brown colour.
Growing up in Brooklyn in the '60s my local pizzeria had two DAF delivery vans. I thought they were cool actually....
Dutch Backwards Racing, where have you been all my life???
You were standing with your back towards it
Lmao "gime me another cigarette " only way to have made that comment more dutch would be the lighting of his new cigarette with the old one.
1:17 you can really sense how old the car is once you realize how low poly the tyres are
The Citroen car you show is the incredibly rare Bijou! Made as an upmarket 2CV for the British market.
didn't know about it at all. thanks. 👍
I recently acquired 70s British/Dutch crime drama Van Der Valk on DVD. During the first two series, Van Der Valk travelled around the city of Amsterdam in DAF cars. The criminals he was after were also using DAF cars. I thought at the time that DAF only made trucks. When Series three came along (1977)Van Der Valk had traded his DAF for a Ford Cortina and I wondered why? So thanks for clearing up the DAF car company story. Loving your work, keep it coming.
This really is an underrated channel. Keep the good work !
I love how folks say all cars look the same today but 5:20 proves that's the case whatever time you go too.
Fun fact. The Netherlands had a car company named isis that made road legal track cars. They made a model called the isis sniper but strangely disappeared in the 2010’s.
The sales bombed
@@timj. HAHA but not nice !
Fun fact: the Dutch license place is really similar to the portuguese one, just like the automotive history...
Portuguese plates were black with white letters, but in Holland it was very dark blue instead. Otherwise kind of yes, apart from in Portugal it was always like BN-09-31 with the letters in front from were you can see or read the registration year, vs in Holland the letters could be in front, in the middle or at the end. The Portuguese No. shown here was btw my last Portugal owned car I had, a Ford Granada 2.8Ghia '81. One out three ever registered ones...
On the newer plates and later the EU plates it changed in Portugal and in Holland, like Portugal 46-CP-90 white (plus registration date in small on the right on yellow ground), or Holland 85-EXP-9 yellow plates...
The best part of Portuguese automotiv history in my view was the UMM. But hmm, with technic from Peugeot... Até logo...
@@PeteDarrell1972 undoubtedly UMM is the wasted potential of making Portugal a country to rival UKs Land Rover or USAs Jeep.
Portuguese governments...
@@aga_100kr I never owned one, but as a mechanic I got plenty in my hand for test drives. I made a slow climbing competition in my country side. UMM vs Land Rover Defender vs Jeep Wrangler vs Toyota BJ40. UMM was the only one who past all extreme parts. The only one that did better was MB G300, of course, nothing in that class can beat them... ;-)
I know the Portuguese government sucks, just like all gov., but by knowlege it was Peugeot who did shut down the partnership with UMM and they coudn't survive by its own. I remember back in early 2000, you could still order a new one and wait till it's produced, but no more production on hold.
I'm pretty sure the EU stopped it for good with all their effed up regulations... !?!
@@PeteDarrell1972 there were a lot of factor that lead to the UMM's fall, i don't know this case that well, but one thing is certain, small business aren't worth EU's investment, the bigs companies are the money making machines, thus the ones funded
@@aga_100kr No body would need EU investments if the EU wouldn't over regulate everything! Just think back to the 80s when UMM was still strong, plus there were alot local driven assembly plants, like the ones that converted MBs an BMWs into station wagons and not to forget the goog ol' R4L that was produced in Portugal till the mid 90s, ten years longer as is France, the 'poor mans Jeep' that was all over the place. Today? What I know there's only VW left with the production of the Scirocco, or was that already yesterday ?!
Yeah, the big swallows the small is all over the place, not only in the car industrie. Make the big bigger and let the small die off, and Brussels is the helping motor to push it! Most countries, but especially Portugal, were much better off in many ways before the EU...
4:00 - That pastime also occurred in the US (at least NY). Still today those roads are called 'parkways'. Henry Hudson Parkway etc.
Fun fact: what became the Volvo 340 series was actually DAF's last car design and the 343 variant came with the radical CVT transmission.
Ah so that's where the CVT came from, interesting thank you
It’s actually so cool to hear how people were excited about a traffic jam
My dad is Dutch and knowing my Dad’s side of the family I can definitely see how roadside tourism would be a thing lol.
Wife had a daff 55 in the 70s she adored it. She was a driver for a car parts firm, there van was a daff, she was so impressed with it she went out and bought the car version.
I had a Volvo (DAF) 66 it was amazing in snowy conditions!
The last few seconds are hilarious! I never laugh out loud in an empty room but you got me this time! Thank you!
Talking about your grandfather and his family cramming into the little car reminding me of back in the 1970s when we took a vacation with my sister and brother-in-law. We drove from East Texas to Washington DC where he was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in a Dodge duster two-door. There was my sister, my brother-in-law, their daughter, my mom, myself, and a toy poodle. Along with all of our luggage. That car was packed like a can of sardines, we were actually riding with luggage filling the trunk and in the backseat along with my mom and myself who had to they are arms and elbows on top of suitcases because there was just no room left in the car. Even the back deck behind the back seat was completely filled. And the only thing worse than that was our trip back home where me and Mom rode a passenger bus 38 hours straight with a layover at 2:00 a.m. for them to clean and service the bus so we couldn't even sleep. Washington DC was great but the trip was something I would never do again ever! LOL
7:01 Joke Bruis rijdt langs de ingang van Blijdorp in een DAF :D Fantastic video, Ed!
OMG!!!!!
This channel is....BY FAR......the most entertaining RUclips channel I have ever stumbled upon. Going through my 3rd time of all the videos. Hahaha!
Love it!!!!!!!!!
I miss Daf. The Danish postal service used Daf 33 vans when I was a child. The smaller Daf’s were really unique and charming. Low center of gravity with their boxer engines, transaxle with the variomatic at the back. What more could one want for? Maybe a slightly less temperamental rear suspension but one cannot have everything 😃
I believe the later Dafs replaced the squirrely independent rear suspension with a de Dion layout, which concept was used in the later larger 340 series, so it must have worked well.
My wife had one of these but second hand. I used to ‘steal’ it whenever I could. Great fun.
The DAF was great! But I'm one of those who used to crash them on backward races in the 90s... ;-)
Love your stuff - narration, humour, cynicism, laughter and even facts - keep 'em comin'.
Dang, the Dutch made the first cars with a CVT gearbox AND the first to have AWD?! Dang, I never knew that! Thanks!
I remember being in Hilversum around 1974. A VW bug seamed like a big car. Back in Canada, the VW seemed to be the smallest.
Dankyawel.
Entertaining. Informative. Had a friend in the last quarter of the 20th century, who was into Daf vans. Had a rake of them. Made one into a saw for his firewood. The Daf van going backwards, was excellent on steep slopes in the winter; going up slopes defeating other 4-WD vehicles. The transmission-to-wheel torque delivery was just so sensitive and progressive.
Zeer amusante video... een heerlijk gevoel voor humor !
You really need more subs. I have no idea why I didn’t know about your channel until a couple of weeks ago
Same here!
Ed is f-----g funny i love the low res graphics It is so so good.
0:21 VW used to tout the fact that its Beetles could, at least for a while, float. I don't know if that's still true, but it must be a good selling point in a country that's half below sea level.
Yup--the Beetle was watertight--so tight that slightly opening a window made it easier to close the door, in fact. Its reputation for buoyancy was used in a joke by "National Lampoon" magazine that got it in trouble--it ran a fake VW ad that showed Senator Ted Kennedy in a VW in water and said something like "Teddy would be President today if he'd been driving a Volkswagen." VW, not Kennedy, sued.
I had a M B A170 with a Cvt !! 15 years and 400 k perfect motoring
And there's a Dutch American I truly enjoy this channel. That is all.
I enjoy your channel you make the info fun to listen to!
I think the film 'Genevieve' featured a Spyker, and I used to have a 'models of yesterday' toy version of a Spyker
Just come across this channel. Super video telling an interesting story in a very entertaining way.
I remember these quirky little DAF cars in the UK in the 60's and 70's but can't remember seeing them being driven backwards!
As portuguese i was amazed to discover that Renault was also portuguese. The things RUclips teach are really amazing
3:26 i dont know how but yes in former yugoslavia families travel everywhere with zastava 750/fiat 600, my grandfather has Lada 1200 they were traveling in big comfort unlike fiat 600 owners
Thank you for your "Saab story" pun. It leaped to my mind just before you said it, and a young whippersnapper like you coming up with the same made me feel a tad less old for having an enormous treasure trove of dad jokes lurking in my head.
AYY You uploaded again!!! I love these episodes
I like his English. Especially when he talks about the Delfte Automobiel Fabriek. Go on man.
When possible I go visit the DAF museum in Eindhoven. Been to Louwman in The Hague , highly recommended!
Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse (CH) is also on my list.
Hey one of your southern neighbors here could you do a video on the Belgian car industry I think that would also be very interesting I always love watching your videos your channel is really underrated
Imagine growing up in the Netherlands during the 60's and 70's. I bet that was pretty cool.
I love all of your vlogs!. Your sense of humor is appreciated, as well as all of the graphics, believe me. Seeing what happened in other parts of the world with cars is very interesting. Buy the way, my parents bought a Volkswagen bug for my Mom to drive in 1960. They bought another one in 1968. I loved to drive those cars! The heater was crap, but they were fun to drive.
I lived in Italy and loved to see the DAFs, they looked so different!
Looking at that first DAF 600, I was thinking "what a pissed-off little car!". Love the attitude! LOL!
I remember visiting relatives in Amsterdam as a kid in the early 70's. My aunt had a DAF. Even as a kid I felt that car was slow AF. lol
In Canada, the Ski-Doo, a snow scooter made by Bombardier, uses a CVT transmission the same type of DAF one. It is simple and no issue with low temperature.
Such a underrated channel!!
I lived in Germany in the early 1970s and saw a few DAF Daffodils back then.
Just a little titbit of information that may interest you. In 1964, I was only a 13 year old boy, Gillespie's of Port Moresby (PNG) had two early model Dafs on the showroom floor, manufactured in right hand drive. It took more than 6 months to sell the little cars and I never met the buyers to find out how reliable they were. So, for some odd reason, Daf exported a couple of examples to the colony of Papua. Gillespie's also sold Jaguar cars in the early 1960s. I enjoyed you presentation. Cheers.
Dankie Ed. Same years ago, i also look into History on the Nederlandsche Motorvoertuigmark. South African Republic in Pretoria (1854-1902) had the help of Dutch Companies 4 the railway between Johannesburg/ Pretoria and Lorenzo Marx, Mozambique.
9:29 Wauw, nog nooit van gehoord. Mooi wagentje.
I own a Volvo 360 1986, and its a dutch made car. Hugely underrated car. A friend of mine loved it som much that she bought a 345 herself. My car has a 2.0 volvo redblock, and it really kicks that small car!
The Golf and the Poolo are the dullest, most tedious cars on the road. Great video!
Years ago (early 70's) a friend had a DAF, just like the one in the picture. Flat twin engine. His carburetor died, so I gave him a carb from a 61 VW bus (36 hp). It was like a Holley Dominator 4 bbl in comparison to the DAF carb! No way would it fit. Don't remember if he got it fixed. He also always had problems with the drive belts coming off. Lucky there was an access panel in the floor to get to them. Cool Car!
The Van Doorne brothers didn't invent the CVT, they were just the first to adapt it to automotive use. CVT's had been in use for machine tool transmissions (lathes, mills, etc.) for almost a century by that point.
Rubber bands are not the same as a CVT
It was a Dutchman that came up with the Transporter for VW. He used the motorised platform vehicles that moved stuff around VW factory, and drew the original T2 Van.
Pon..
You're referring to the Dutch VW importer Pon. And whilst it is true the VW van was his idea, he really had nothing to do with the development process at all. All he did was whilst sitting down in a bar with a German VW exec was explaining how he envisioned a van coach on the beetle chassis and doodled the idea on a napkin. The Germans liked the idea and ran with it. That's all.
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I remember backward racing when I lived in the Netherlands in the early 80s... absolutely crazy and cool on so many levels.
DAF are still very active on the truck/lorry market where they have a very good reputation and considerable market share (16%+) in Europe, placing them among the top-3 heavy truck manufacturers.
Thanks for another entertaining history lesson.
A bit of trivia: DAF Trucks has been owned by American heavy truck manufacturer PACCAR (who also owns Peterbilt and Kenworth) for well over 25 years (Leyland Trucks was owned by DAF when they were bought, so PACCAR owns it as well). I was a security guard at the now-closed Peterbilt plant in Nashville (several years ago, the city bought the campus and its buildings and other parts of the property were converted to a Metro Police precinct [the former "test"/rework building], a Metropolitan Transit Authority maintenance depot [the former office building and the plant itself], and a Nashville Electric Service service depot [newly built a few years ago on the old test track/trailer lot]) from 1996 to 2001 and I remember when PACCAR announced the DAF/Leyland purchase.
I really love your videos. Greetings from Luxembourg...
Brilliant, well researched, and HILARIOUS. Enjoyed many other chapters and dismissed the Dutch car history because, well, what could be interesting-or even, what could be entertaining-about Dutch cars? Finally clicked on it and laughed through the whole thing. Learned something, too. Can’t wait for my next cocktail party and the chance to test the attendees on their knowledge of CVT trivia! CVT trivia… isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
Oh man this horse with the smoking tailpipe in the back that was the best of all hh. Greetings from Tunisia.
I'm trying to keep from binge-watching all your stuff, but it's hard to pull over and park.
Glad I found this channel. Good job!
Excellent video....informative and entertaining. Thank you.
The CVT transmission was a brilliant invention. It is now the transmission system of hundreds of millions of motor scooters worldwide.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Volvo continued car production in the Netherlands after DAF had bitten the dust, with the 340 series being straightforward a DAF model and I think the later 400 series was also a Dutch product.
yes. Mitsubishi Carisma was also produced in same factory
My grandfather purchased a Toyota awhile back. This was strange to us as he grew up in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, with my great grandfather dying in a concentration camp. He is a very wise man and said he only bought the car because it was manufactured in an old DAF factory. He is very smart and also work as an engineer on the Delta Works.
I win! (I swear I didn't look before I figured this out). I couldn't figure out your accent to save my life; it sounded vaguely Russian, but most Russians aren't as fluent in English (or if they are, they've also managed to get rid of the accent). Please understand, you have very little accent, and your English is probably better than my Dutch (which doesn't suck; I may have been born in Ohio, but I grew up in Den Haag (De Vogelwijk), Voorburg and Wassenaar). But then, you said "van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek". Just like that. And suddenly, it was all clear; you had to be Dutch. No one who was not Dutch could say that and not stumble at least a little bit; you stumbled not at all. Bravo! I really enjoy your content, thanks, and subscribed!
I love learning about the history of duff beer
hey, i been many times inside the DAF/Volvo...i couldnt read at that time, and its 50 years ago, but family friends owned one, they took us kids to the beach in Flensburg, a privat beach!
The truck side of DAF was sold to USA based Paccar in the 1980's, the maker of Peterbuilt and Kenworth trucks. I don't know who ended up with the bus side (Volvo ?). A few DAF's were sold in the USA, but didn't last long due to problems with the belt CVT systems. CVT's are now very common in several car brands, especially Nissan, Honda, Kia/Hyundai.
All Videos are so nice to see. Congratulation....i hope for many other new episodes. Greets from Germany.
As to national car companies...some fairly big developed countries lack those too, besides the Netherlands. Canada, for instance. Closest we've come in relatively recent times was the brief Bricklin effort in New Brunswick circa 1975; before that, Studebaker's Canadian plant in Hamilton was the company's sole main assembly operation from January 1964 through March 1966 when the American board killed the car division outright; the Hamilton-only Studes were advertised here as "Canada's Own Car" during 1965 and '66...
Thanks for the video!! It was nice :)
My dad drives a DAF, a truck that is, but it truly is the only Dutch brand I ever knew existed.
I have owned DAF 55 with Renault 1100 engine. It was not expecially slow at that time. It was noisy by whistle sound by trumm clutch and high rev.
I had a 55 with the 1300 Renault engine it too was very good in mud and ice conditions and wasn't slow at all. The 66 was fitted with a diff while the earlier models relied on belt slip that behaved like a limited slip diff normally fitted to high performance cars giving that good traction. A great car and my family loved it.
Ah yes, achteruitrijracen. I've been to one of those at the Zandvoort circuit. It was hilarious. I also have fond memories of the Neerlands Hoop sketch about a 'kanariegele DAF'.
Imagine good old Ed were Flemish. “Ep. 9 A Full and Detailed History of the Belgian Car Industry“ Running time 34 seconds
Vergeet je niet iets? Minerva?
Founded by a Dutchman 8-)
Gillet
Imperia hat du auch vergessen! apropos FN hat auch autos gebaut.Scaldia from Antwerp construisait des Moskwitch.
Wow! The imaginary Belgian car video is approaching a running time of about 53 seconds. Perhaps the community can push it over a minute? 8-))
The DAF 600 looked like a car with a chip on it's shoulder. Can't blame it. CVT's make sense, but do we want our cars to make sense? I think not. Just stumbled on to this channel and I love it. I got a lot of laughs out of this and the American "Malaise" video part 1. Subscribed. Gearheads of the World Unite!
Not to mention the "jarretelaandrijving" or garter belt drive. ;-) But, I'm proud my mom owned two Daf's a 1969 33 and a 1975 44. Very well made, nice cars. Proud to be Dutch!
I'm not sure which was actually the first, but my second motor scooter I owned in 1965 was a DKW Hobby, made in Germany in 1957, and it had - wait for it - a CVT transmission, exactly like the DAF! A friend of mine also had a Hobby, it was almost identical but made by Manurhin in France.
I must admit, having had a Dauphine, to being surprised to see it towing a caravan.
You could make it even more Dutch by welding a trailer hook to the front bumper and go caravan backwards racing. Luckily when I was a child - obviously about 2 decades earlier than you - German ARD aired the Dutch summer fun of "On land, at sea, and in the air" (Te land, ter zee en in de lucht). A fun game mixture of games comparable to today's Red Bull Flying Contest, dragon boat races and stock car racing. And for the car part the caravan backwards race was for sure the highlight.
The Variomatic transmission was not just a variable-belt drive, like on lathes--it added the automatic feature--that was new. They oversold it at firs--it was claimed to eliminate the differential, with a belt drive to each wheel, but that was asking too much if it. For one thing, it was torque-limited, and couldn't take the stresses imposed by the final stepdown gearing to the wheels, which multiplied the torque, of course. But it worked well with low-power engines. The automatic was a good fit for a market of buyers who had not previously driven cars. One huge advantage of an automatic transmission was that it helped resale value--a buyer of a used car could be confident that the engine had not been over-revved.
Sad that you didn't mentioned the link between DAF and the Volvo 340 & 400 series.
Ok Ed. My dad got his first car in the early 50's in Amsterdam. It was a Beetle. So we went on trips.
Oma, Opa, Mom and Dad, and us two kids, all wearing winter clothes. It was crowded but we didn't care. We had a car!
2 small additions. Daf pretty much lost its 'slow and girly' image in 1967, after competing and even winning rally races with the Daf 55. Secondly, since 2019 the Netherlands has a brand new carbrand called Lightyear. It's been said to be the Tesla killer, a car on solar energy. It's actually produced and for sale.
Where can i buy stocks ? XD
1:08 - That very ornate gold horse-drawn carriage, if I'm not mistaken, was used forever as the logo for the Fisher Body Company of the USA, which was a subsidiary of General Motors. The "Body by Fisher" trademark was embossed on the metal doorsills of the front doors of GM cars, with this carriage inside an oval frame.
Mate at 6:35 I could listen to you saying Het Pientere Pookje on a loop forever