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hanktank61

" DAF automobile"

Dutch small car popular in the ´60 's.
Not very impressing, design, mostly older people driving in it.
Made by DAF, who was/is more into trucks.

But it had the Variomatic-transmission, developed already in the ´50 's .
And : We will never forget an accident in our town, a collision between a small DAF and a large German still popular brand. No casualties.
The DAF could drive away by itself, the large car was total-loss ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomat

DAF automobile, a Dutch small car popular in the ´60' s in Holland. The first with a revolutionary aotomatic suspension.
#autocade#DAF#Car
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Done. That's the underside, now covered with some "Bitumen" underbody spray that will also protect against small impacts.

This was a leftover can which went on fine and a new can which went on a bit blotchy. Guess you really need to shake it for five minutes. Oh well, blotchy protects all the better! :)

The inside got just normal matt black paint. That looked very nice but somehow the phone forgot to take a picture when I pressed the button 🤷

The same under-engine plate as before, now without rust and freshly sprayed in an underbody protection spray that leaves a coarse, slightly soft finish.
#Car#Repair#Paint
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Trying out that Latvian "Rust-Off" rust converter. Works well, but not as nice as the Flag Paints stuff as it has no black pigment. No black coverage, just conversion. At least it goes on pale green so you can see where you have applied it.

De-rusted the Crossgolf's massive steel under-engine shield, then applied converter and next is paint.

New shield is somewhere around €160-200, so worth restoring. Used ones are just as rusty.

Rusty under-engine shield from a VW Golf 5 Plus Cross. It's a thick steel piece with some black paint left on it, the rest is thick rust from use in a country with heavily salted roads. There's two elaborate air intake slots with triangular recesses. An old hammer is on top of it.
Same shield, although upside down (both sides were about the same level of rustyness). The rust is now hammered, chiseled, ground and brushed off and rust converter has been applied turning any remaining brown spots black. Where there was no rust, the rust converter remains transparent, showing darkened steel. The intake slots have been cleaned up as well as possible, but are a problem spot.
A test of the rust converter paint on an old steel chisel. The bottom half is rusty, the top half is black.
#Car#Automotive#Rust
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Hanse Mina

When mercenaries from the Wagner PMC, also known as the Wagner Group, first appeared in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2018, many local women stopped going out to work in the fields. The reason? They were afraid of being raped by Russian soldiers.

pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/202

Ukrainska Pravda · Women no longer go out to work, fearing rape by Wagner mercenaries: how Russia is colonising AfricaBy Sofiia Cheliak
#Ukraine#Russia#CAR
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Janne Moren

BYD will release an electric kei car for the japanese market in 2026.

How do you make people buy your cars? Create models for the market that customers actually want. That's what Toyota did in US in the 1980s, and that's what BYD does in Japan now.

And that's exactly what US automakers are *not* doing here in Japan. So no wonder people don't want their cars.

evnews.blog.jp/archives/537979

電気自動車ニュースBYDが2026年にも、軽EVを発売 : 電気自動車ニュースBYD、日本専用の軽EVを26年投入　国内4割市場狙う（2025/04/21）（日本経済新聞） 中国の比亜迪（BYD）が2026年にも、軽EVを約250万円で発売すると報じていました。 軽EVの「日産サクラ」は国内累計EV販売台数の約4割を占め、「3年連続で国内市場における電気自動車（EV）
#car#japan#byd
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