got one of these

Just curious...is it called a Hal-flinger or Half-linger?

Andrew

In the early 70's my first husband and I had a couple of VW Country buggies - we went everywhere in them - I used to do the Kindy run with a couple of kids and a baby in the bassinet behind the front seat. We would take it up to Double Island POint fishing. It was light and easy to move if in a bog hole.
The kids tell me their Dad still has one of them. There was a group of us who all had them - we must have been trendies. LOL

If my somewhat withered memory serves me correctly there was also a similar thing made by Puch.

I think they were a German mob who specialised in two stroke engines and also dabbled in chainsaws.

Jim.

Our 4wd club has a sort of "test track" at the Paskeville Field Days (held every 2nd year in September). A bloke rocked up in one of those (fully restored) last September and asked if we'd be interested in seeing it go through it's paces over the lumps and bumps of the test track. No worries, we said.
He took each of us with him for a few laps. It's an eirie feeling being at the windscreen, no seat belts and going down fairly steep descents etc.
The only thing it got hung-up on was a sharp jump-up which required more ramp-over angle than he had available. More gear sticks than you could poke a gear lever at!!!! hahahaha

The bloke actually drove it down from somewhere up in the mid north at a top speed of about 60 k/h I think he said.

Roachie

Remember seeing a show on tv many many many years ago when a couple of blokes took something that looked like this to Cape York, had bobcat tyres fitted on it, might have been called a Daff or something ???

This from Wikipedia.

They were made by the Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch between 1959 and 1974 and were exported all over the world. A total of 16,647 were made, most of them being taken up by the Swiss and Austrian armies. Since August 2006, there exists a web-project that wants to document the different Haflinger types, the many many details and the changes that came with the years of production.

Steyr are still in business making Diesel engines and assault weapons. In 1979 they began making 4WD's for Mercedes Benz. Puch, as their own entity, closed in 1923. Daimler, as we all know, is now part of the Chrysler-Daimler group.

About 20 years ago there was a number of them in Newman - apparently one of the stations had some and sold them - friend of mine had 2

I'd love one! Just as a project y'know?? I can understand why you wouldn't part with it Justin.... but I'd still be driving it every now and then... LOL...


Cheers

Brian

the mine workshop manager at Gove had one in the 70,s