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Article description: This article comes from a well-kept collection and is therefore considered a ‘used’ item. The model car itself is in very good condition. The model car is in its original acrylic glass/Plexiglas display case. The original cardboard packaging is no longer present. The accompanying flyer with the history and description of the original car is present. The acrylic glass/plexiglass display case has slight signs of storage/use. The acrylic glass/plexiglass display case consists of a base plate and a transparent acrylic glass/plexiglass cover. The model car is screwed onto the base plate. The photos published here are part of the article description.
The model car is made of resin (synthetic resin) with permanently attached small parts and is factory-built.
Scale of the model car: 1:43
Edition: 333 model cars
Manufacturer: Autocult GmbH, Richtweg 66, 90530 Wendelstein, Germany, Email: info@autocult.de. Please keep this address.
Warning! All model cars offered by us are true-to-scale and true-to-original models/miniatures of the original cars for collectors, not children's toys! If the article offered is used properly, it does not pose any health or other risks (e.g. fire). All model cars offered in our webshop are collector's items and are only suitable/intended for young people (14 to 18 years) and adults. The following expressly applies: Our model cars are not suitable for children under the age of 14.
Product safety instructions: This model car must always be kept safely out of the reach of children under the age of 14. The duty of supervision of parents or the person responsible for supervision also applies to young people. Parents or the person responsible for supervision must therefore always ensure that the model car poses no danger to the young person.
Neither the collector's model, nor small parts detached from it, nor the packaging may be put in the mouth, held/pressed on the mouth and nose, swallowed or inhaled (mouth and nose). There is a risk of suffocation. Neither the collector's model nor small parts detached from it or the packaging may come into contact with the eyes or ears in any way. There is a risk of blindness or hearing damage. There is a risk of injury to skin and hands if the collector's model and the packaging with sharp tips and edges are used improperly.
Tax law information: Value added tax (VAT) is levied throughout the European Union (EU), although each EU country sets its own VAT rates. The total price of an order placed by a customer within the European Union (EU) is therefore based on the VAT of the respective recipient country. It is adjusted accordingly at the checkout during the ordering process. The sales of this model car are subject to differential taxation in accordance with § 25a USTG: This means 0% VAT on the order for the customer. The relevant statutory VAT to the customer's EU-country of destination is paid by us in accordance with the OSS (One-Stop-Shop) procedure. Shipping to non-EU countries is carried out from Germany. The VAT of the respective recipient country, customs clearance costs and customs duties or similar costs are not included in the final order total and must be paid to the relevant third parties. These shall be paid by the buyer.
Secondary use
The advantage of developing vehicles for the army was a reliable and safe purchase volume of these vehicles. This was also the incentive for the Dutch truck company DAF to participate in a tender of the US Ministry of Defense in the early 1960s. During the Cold War period the US Army wanted to have a vehicle that could be brought into service without electricity.
The engineers of DAF developed a universally usable vehicle that featured a simple loading platform on which only a spartan seat and steering wheel was mounted. During its service in the US Army the vehicle would have been most probably retrofittable with diverse additions and vehicle structures. But this did not happen since the US Army did not approve the vehicle for military use and therefore no order was placed. DAF decided to further develop their concept to a small transporter. There were fundamental changes of the wheels, the engine, the vehicle structure and also the dispense with electricity was no longer a necessary feature. In the end only the basic framework on which the civil offshoot based remained the same. The idea of offering a small, individual truck for retail shops, handicraft and construction business or for the inner city transport was fundamentally not new and already led other vehicles to success. Designated as the “Pony” the small truck went on sale in 1968. It was available as a platform truck or as a tractor-trailer combination. Both versions were fitted with an air-cooled two-cylinder boxer engine with 844cc and a power of 40 hp. The trucks accelerated to a top speed of 70 km/h. The engine came from the passenger car DAF 44 and due to engine modifications it was possible to increase the output from 34 to 40 hp. The Pony featured also the continuously variable gearbox of DAF named “Variomatic”. The management of DAF was quite optimistic about their small truck concept and probably expected resounding success.
The disappointment of the management must have been great as they ascertain that their concept met only with little success. As at the end of 1969 the sales figures counted only 700 copies (since the start of production in 1968) it was decided to cease the production without a successor.