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Re: Introducing Team Metroneige

Your CVT skillz is weak! DAF Variomatic FTW!

http://www.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2006/12/daf2.jpg

http://jalopnik.com/cars/daf/the-dutch- … 220635.php

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  • From: Seattle, WA
  • Registered: 2009-10-28
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Re: Introducing Team Metroneige

gielamonster wrote:

Your CVT skillz is weak! DAF Variomatic FTW!

Yeah, DAFs are awesome.  The president of the DAF Club of America

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/daf/

is also in a microcar club to which I belong.  He really, really likes working on DAFs:

http://www.microcar.org/dc/dcboard.php? … ic_id=1799

with even more pics if you follow that subthread.  I don't think he's got anything for sale in the $500 range at the moment.

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1980 KV Mini 1: Worst of Show and Fright Pig Supremo 2009 Concours d'Lemons
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  • From: Emeryville CA
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Re: Introducing Team Metroneige

The DAF Variomatic allows the car to travel just as quickly in reverse as it can going forward, correct? I can see several advantages to that. No disadvantages.

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Re: Introducing Team Metroneige

Nick_LeMonsHQ wrote:

The DAF Variomatic allows the car to travel just as quickly in reverse as it can going forward, correct? I can see several advantages to that. No disadvantages.

Correct.  Absolutely correct:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid= … 1261609012

The race starts at about 2:37 into the video.

1982 MG Metro 1300: IOE 2015 Pacific Northworst GP, Longest Distance 2010 Cd'L Box Wine Country Classic
1980 KV Mini 1: Worst of Show and Fright Pig Supremo 2009 Concours d'Lemons
1978 H Special: Second-Round Elimination 2010 Lemons Pinewood Derby at Sears Pointless
1967 SAAB 96: IOE 2012 Pacific Northworst GP, Organizer's Choice 2022 Hell on Wheels California Rally
  • From: Toronto, Ontario
  • Registered: 2009-05-03
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Re: Introducing Team Metroneige

Didn't Parnelli Jones once win a backwards race in a Mercury Colony Park?

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