This is my kettenkrad

[tarnmilitaria]

oosterbeek 2010

new photos
thanks willem

[deejay]

Willem,

lovely pictures and KK' raeder taken in Soestduinen I presume ?

Wonderful restoration work.

[zundappuk]

For Kettenkrad fans

Just stumbled upon this website below. It has some great rare pics of prototypes and design studies, as well as the fabled "long" kettenkrad, enjoy!

http://files.kettenkradanhaenger.de/....php?cat_id=14

[tarnmilitaria]

hengelo 2010

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[tarnmilitaria]

hengelo 2010

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[tarnmilitaria]

hengelo 2010

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[Black Orchid]

Super gaaf Willem, die kan weer wat jaren vooruit !!

gr, Henk

[jotuntroll]

Hi Willem

What a superb tread. Very nice work on this rare german veichle
This is a educational and fun tread, bravo!

jotuntroll

[splod]

Just stumbled upon this website below. It has some great rare pics of prototypes and design studies, as well as the fabled "long" kettenkrad, enjoy!

http://files.kettenkradanhaenger.de/....php?cat_id=14

Everyone

Please do NOT publicise the above website! The owner is claiming copyright to photos that do not belong to him eg. WW2 German Soldat postcard images etc
as well as photos not sourced by private means.

Those images are public demain by force majeur and he has NO RIGHT to deface them and claim them as his own.

Just because he has placed them on his website does NOT give him the right to them.

I daresay the publishers of Waffen Arsenal for instance would be very interested to know.........

[tarnmilitaria]

kettenkrad

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[Varsity]

Ha Willem,

Here is another picture of last year at us in Hengelo:

[Varsity]

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[Hilton]

Makes me sad to see yet another vehicle restored to look like it just came off the assembly line:-( What´s really unique is originals with untouched paint and finnish, when restored to "mint" condition its just like dussins of other refurbished ones. The uniqueness and the authenticity is gone. No sane man would blast and repaint a battle worn and salty helmet, but most vehicle restorers just don't have any second thoughts of destroying history.The example shown in this thread had so much of the original finish etc, that it really makes me depressed to see what was done to it. It would have been so much better to preserve the original finnish, and make the parts that was already destroyed by the grey primer etc to match the original finnish. What do you think of when you set the blaster to the original stenciling and slowly watch it disappear for ever?

[NickG]

Makes me sad to see yet another vehicle restored to look like it just came off the assembly line:-( What´s really unique is originals with untouched paint and finnish, when restored to "mint" condition its just like dussins of other refurbished ones. The uniqueness and the authenticity is gone. No sane man would blast and repaint a battle worn and salty helmet, but most vehicle restorers just don't have any second thoughts of destroying history.The example shown in this thread had so much of the original finish etc, that it really makes me depressed to see what was done to it. It would have been so much better to preserve the original finnish, and make the parts that was already destroyed by the grey primer etc to match the original finnish. What do you think of when you set the blaster to the original stenciling and slowly watch it disappear for ever?

OK so basically you are saying that you would rather own (drive) the Chevy on the left![
Weatcroft is restoring the only surviving E-Boat (s-boot) in the world and guess what, its also getting new paint...
but I guess the stencil could have been preserved...

[Hilton]

If you don't get my point, read the part where I draw a parallel to helmets. I am talking about saving history were its possible, and when things are beyond any realistic hope of recovery I also support a total renovation, but only then. The Kettenkraftrad in this thread was far from beyond salvage to say it mildly. My own vehicles are also sadly restored without any care taken to preserving original finnish, but not by me, I bought them like that because I could not find anything with original finnish. It is almost impossible to get good complete projects that has not been tampered with because of clowns eager to "over-restore", but I am always searching to upgrade (you would probably say downgrade:-) my 3 bikes and 1 jeep to ones that have more than 50-70% original finnish. In europe it has been the trend for several years now that veteran vehicles in untampered original condition (even if weathered and with patina) are much more desirable, AND valuable. I have also seen this trend spreading to US in the HD bike community.