This Car Is Related To The One Above because...

[rblote]

The Munster Koach is the family car that was used in the television series, The Munsters. The show's producers contracted George Barris to provide the Koach. Barris paid show car designer Tom Daniel $200 to design the car, and had it built at Barris Kustoms, first by Tex Smith, but finished by Dick Dean, his shop foreman at the time. The Munster Koach appeared in over twenty episodes throughout the series' two-year run, and was also seen in Munster, Go Home! using different wheels. Tom Daniel's original drawing of the Munster Koach had it supercharged with a hood scoop and thin, round disc lights. Barris chose the ten-carburetor setup with the ten air horns and lantern lights.


Another somewhat different family was the Adams Family.
The Adams Family drove a beautiful 1932 Packard Twin Six.

[vulgalour]

I could go on at length about the Addams and the Munsters, their differences, cultural relevances, and why they had the vehicles they had. Don't worry, I won't. Both were charicature representations of aspects of American culture, with the Munsters aimed more at the pop-horror culture of the 50s and 60s, and the Addams more squarely a parody of Old Money families from the affluent era between the great wars. That's why their cars are so very different too, the Munsters had to have a bizarre Hannah Barbera sort of a contraption while for the Addams it had to be something that was the best money could buy when it was new and which they then kept, money no object, thereafter. I like both families, for different reasons, though the Addams are probably the ones I prefer. It's also worth noting that both shows send out the message that it doesn't matter what you look like or what other people think, loving, and being loved by, your family is the most important thing. For all the spooky kooky goings on, they're actually both fairly wholesome creations.

Anyway, since we're on the subject of car links here and while the Packard is an impressive thing, let's not forget that in 1991 film The Addams Family, we discover that Cousin Itt's mode of transport is a 1953 Messerschmitt KR175, which is just about as far removed from a Packard as you can get.

[darrenh]

seeing as cousin itt was famous for being hirsute, i decided i was going to find a bubble car covered in fur, tried to find a KR, failed, then any bubble car, failed, i drew the line at any furry car

in the process i accidentally learned two things i didn't know, first being KR stands for kabinenroller which literally translates to cabin scooter (predictably logical) the second is when i accidentally typed AIR instead of HAIR and found a KR200 with a 1.3 flat four VW beetle engine plus an airscrew on the back (propeller to you and i) a special built by rolf strasser

first picture in its native museum display, the second going up the hill climb at goodwood festival of speed

[ratchart]

Mar 17, 2020 12:21:13 GMT vulgalour said:

I could go on at length about the Addams and the Munsters, their differences, cultural relevances, and why they had the vehicles they had. Don't worry, I won't. Both were charicature representations of aspects of American culture, with the Munsters aimed more at the pop-horror culture of the 50s and 60s, and the Addams more squarely a parody of Old Money families from the affluent era between the great wars. That's why their cars are so very different too, the Munsters had to have a bizarre Hannah Barbera sort of a contraption while for the Addams it had to be something that was the best money could buy when it was new and which they then kept, money no object, thereafter. I like both families, for different reasons, though the Addams are probably the ones I prefer. It's also worth noting that both shows send out the message that it doesn't matter what you look like or what other people think, loving, and being loved by, your family is the most important thing. For all the spooky kooky goings on, they're actually both fairly wholesome creations.

Anyway, since we're on the subject of car links here and while the Packard is an impressive thing, let's not forget that in 1991 film The Addams Family, we discover that Cousin Itt's mode of transport is a 1953 Messerschmitt KR175, which is just about as far removed from a Packard as you can get.

Actually a double link as Packard made Rolls Royce Merlin engines under licence during WW2 which would have done battle against the products of the Messerschmitt company.

[metalshapes]

One of the airplanes with the Packard built Rolls Royce engines was the P40 Curtis.

In Europe it did battle against the Messerschmitt Me 323,  which was propeller driven ( it was a powered version of a glider, so like that KR200 the propellers were retrofitted )

The P-40 was the main USAAF fighter aircraft in the South West Pacific and Pacific Ocean theaters during 1941–42. At Pearl Harbor[60] and in the Philippines,[61] USAAF P-40 squadrons suffered crippling losses on the ground and in the air to Japanese fighters such as the A6M Zero and Ki-43 Oscar respectively.

One of the airplanes the Japanese used at Pearl Harbor was the Zero.

Which was a Mitsubishi.

The Mitsubishi Lancer 1600 GSR had some success as a rally racer.

[accord83]

Mitsubishi Lancer was originally marketed over in the Uk as the Colt Lancer, Colt made firearms, as did Remington, Phil Remington was Carroll Shelby's main engineer on the GT40



An amazing man, read about him here:

www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a4708/features-magazines-features-the-life-of-phil-remington/ 

[jpsmit]

that is an impressive link - well done! (and somehow I suspect Kevin Bacon will similarly emerge (I'll get my coat))

A slightly less impressive jump but two cars that at linked and probably couldn't be further apart.

It's a Ford! It's a GT! But it's a North American Escort.

[ratchart]

Well, as soon as I saw the grille on the Escort I thought:-

[mrbounce]

The Panda (in 4x4 guise anyway) used a 4x4 drivetrain made by Steyr-Puch. They also made some pretty cool vehicles themselves, so I give you the Steyr-Puch Haflinger, a small 4x4 high mobility vehicle.

[rblote]

Definitely one for the Dutch
I am sure that many of you Dutch lot have ridden one these Puch's

or one of these

Puch "brommers" were very popular in the Netherlands and might still be I am not sure on that one.

Going back to 4 wheels..
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, sometimes called G-Wagen (short for Geländewagen, "terrain vehicle"), is a mid-size four-wheel drive luxury SUV manufactured by Magna Steyr (formerly Steyr-Daimler-Puch) in Austria and sold by Mercedes-Benz. In certain markets, it has been sold under the Puch name as Puch G.

[jpsmit]

Not going to lie I googled this one - Sylvester Stallone drives a G Wagon 2 apparently. Here is the list

www.hotcars.com/13-cars-in-sylvester-stallones-collection-and-7-that-should-be/

To my eyes far and away the strangest car on his list is a VW Phaeton.

[metalshapes]

Phaeton?


Nah...

THIS is a Phaeton. 

( 1932 Ford Phaeton )

[georgeb]

Mar 19, 2020 7:47:28 GMT metalshapes said:

Phaeton?


Nah...

THIS is a Phaeton. 

( 1932 Ford Phaeton )

Now that's proper!

Phaeton seems to be popular


www.wikiwand.com/en/Chrysler_Imperial_Parade_Phaeton

[rblote]

I was just interested what a "Phaeton" is, was what it meant.
This is what Wiki tells me

Phaeton (carriage) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phaeton_(carriage)
A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a phaeton typically featured a minimal very lightly sprung body atop four extravagantly large wheels.

So this is kinda real modern Phaeton...........

[metalshapes]

The Boothill Express was a Hot Rodded Custom hearse, which started out as an antique horse drawn hearse.

( they later made a 2nd one by taking a fiberglass mold off the 1st one )

This was not a static display, it ran.

And somebody was brave enough to take it down a dragstrip.

Apart from the horse drawn thing & oversize wheels ( wide ones in the rear, at least ), something else it has in common with the last link would be that most people wouldnt want to be seen dead in either...

[georgeb]

Mar 19, 2020 8:52:12 GMT metalshapes said:

most people wouldn't want to be seen dead in either...

Although more likely in the latter!

[darrenh]

i missed my opening for some vauxhall content there didnt i! cavalier turbo had a 4x4 system made by steyr-daimler-puch

anyhoo we've ended up back on drag racing hearses! in an attempt to sex it up a bit this is the worlds fastest functional hearse, AMS madness. based on a 96 chevrolet caprice it holds the world record quarter mile for road legal hearse at 9.54 / 147mph, powered by a 6 litre chevy smallblock v8 with, monumentally big garret turbos pushing approx 1300bhp.

[rodharris83]

From one modified Hearse to another...

1928 Essex Super Six (with Racing Hemi! ):

[metalshapes]

It looks like that Essex is built in the Rat Rod style.

Often confused with, but completely different from, the Traditional Hot Rod style.

The Cal based club The Shifters claim to have come up with the term "Rat Rod", and also that they were one of the first to resurrect the Trad build style.

When in fact, the UK based Low Flyers club was doing it much earlier.

Here is an old pic of some Low Flyer cars.

Most cars in this pic are 1932 Fords.

[jpsmit]

Not a low flyer but a Radio Flyer - and it drives!