DAFchap wrote:I seem to remember reading at the time that they crashed quite a few 340s during the planning and making of this commercial.

I also remember that. The ad's stunt men were sent out looking for cheap 300s (presumably the very first Mk1s at the time) which they practiced on. The report I read at the time said the people buying the cars didn't have the heart to tell the little old ladies their cars were doomed ...

Tom

360 has bias bit towards front, 48:52% is what I have learned, but never had any confirmation of that really.

But I don't know if M47R and diff is lighter or heavier than vario, but I know B200 is heavier than B14, so that is something that has puzzled me sometime, should get good scale to weight all corners so I could put that away from my list of uncertain values

It is quite horrifying how many perfectly good cars have been destroyed because of moving picture, this saddens me a lot as a car enthusiast.

jtbo wrote:
It is quite horrifying how many perfectly good cars have been destroyed because of moving picture, this saddens me a lot as a car enthusiast.

I read in a newspaper this weekend that a quarter of the price you pay for an average breakfast cereal packet goes towards convincing you to buy it
cheers mickt

mickt wrote: I read in a newspaper this weekend that a quarter of the price you pay for an average breakfast cereal packet goes towards convincing you to buy it
cheers mickt

Crazy, isn't it?

I like to buy products with little amount of packaging so all those that make big pretty wrappings loose my money, but when looking big picture I believe they unfortunately win by doing that

With 300, even commercials are fun to watch, test drive would have been best selling point, when I first drove damn thing it felt like home

But I'm not quite 'average' so to say, some say weird, I guess that is true also

Best advert for the car is to drive them - still goig strong after all these years I feel giddy watching things fall out of windows
cheers mickt

They should just label it like an ad
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UHUeAyAnlBk

Slightly off topic, but DAFchap, are you the gent who just joined popular classics? If so, feel free to post up some piccies of your car as most of us are interested in DAF's too, and yours is immaculate!

(infact, even if you arn't the same chap, post up pics anyway!)

Chris_C wrote:Slightly off topic, but DAFchap, are you the gent who just joined popular classics? If so, feel free to post up some piccies of your car as most of us are interested in DAF's too, and yours is immaculate!

(infact, even if you arn't the same chap, post up pics anyway!)

Crikey
Yes, it is indeed me, and thank you for your kind comments about my DAF 33, known for reasons lost in the midst of time, as the Blue Bullet.

It's getting a bit famous because as well as the PC photoshoot a couple of weeks ago, it has already appeared in PC and Classic Car Weekly this year.

Despite running the DAF Owners Club website - all are welcome to visit and I've had a link to your site for yonks - I'm still trying to get my head around uploading pics onto forums!

By the way, I used to own a 340 Vario - and still miss it. It was an H reg GL, and I even got a personal plate for it - H19DAF. I think it may be around still.

And over the years, I became friends with Mr J van der Brugghen, who was DAF's chief design engineer, and led the development of the DAF77. Met him several times at his home and the DAF museum, and a friend and I translated and published some of his memoirs into English a few years ago.

And another thing - DAF Daffer who graces this site as well, told me about the planned joint club event - def up for that!

Cheers.
Richard

Great to have you here Richard

Uploading pictures to forum is not possible in way one would thought, but if you have picture already on website or some sort of image gallery, then you can link picture to forum.

When replying to a message, you will see load of buttons above box where you type text into, one of buttons reads "Img" in it, what it does is that it adds Img-tag to text box, then you write or paste address of image and press again "Img" button so that tag closes. It always needs opening of tag and closing of tag. URL is then similar, but it does not show picture right away, but reader must click address to see picture, this is good for large pictures as some have bit slower connection.

Example of Img-tag That shows picture in message.

URL-tag is then like this For clarity I put it also here in way it shows up in message where reader can click it to view picture.

http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/360/DSC_0005.JPG My brake pedal

Hopefully this helps a bit, it is bit difficult to explain simple terms, but if you have any questions you can ask

Hi Richard welcome aboard

you are right in saying your vario is probably still about
the dvla states



The enquiry is complete

The vehicle details for H19 DAF are:

Date of Liability 01 06 2009
Date of First Registration 23 04 1991
Year of Manufacture 1991
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1397CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour BLUE

Yep, that's the one! Pleased to see that it is still around. I sold it to a DOC member from, I think, Essex way, way back in 1998/99. It went and handled well, and, as you will appreciate, used to anoy other "trendy" cars by either keeping up with them, or leaving them standing. It was the "varicose vein" shade of blue with lovely grey interior. Miss those heated seats.

Thanks for the pic tips - still beyond me! I managed to get a avatar thingy on the Popular Classics site, but if you asked me how I did it, I'd struggle to explain.

There are a few pics of my 33 on our main site *blatant plug*!

I try to explain bit different words, I'm Finnish, we are bit stubborn so giving up is not accepted

For example, to get this image show up in post:


I need to type Those img texts in brackets make image visible instead of address of image, those can be made with button that reads "Img", but it is possible to write too.

You can get address of image by clicking right mouse button at top of image and then choose 'copy image location' or something similar in terms, then when writing a message you can right click into box where your text resides and choose paste and address of image is written to box where you are typing your reply.

These computers are rather stupid, so you only need to get such text into box and it will appear as image, it does not matter how you do it

But of course, picture must be uploaded first to some website (photobucket.com for example) for this to work out properly.

Hey JTBO, that's my DAF and pic!

Thanks for sorting it.

I'll follow your tips soon.

And nothing wrong with being stubborn - aren't we all?

Hi Richard, welcome along! I saw your car in Classic Car Weekly! Very nice indeed.

For those of you who are FOTV300 members, I think it was Kev Devine who sent a picture in of the actual car used in the advert, I seem to recall it was on display in a showroom at somepoint somewhere! I'll try and dig it out if I ever find time, as I found it really interesting. It certainly stood up to the impact pretty well.

Pete

DAFchap wrote:And over the years, I became friends with Mr J van der Brugghen, who was DAF's chief design engineer, and led the development of the DAF77. Met him several times at his home and the DAF museum, and a friend and I translated and published some of his memoirs into English a few years ago.

Richard, that sounds like you might have some very interesting info for V3M's "history" section

Tom