Kettenkrad for sale

If anybody has a spare £45,532 ($94,397), then click on the link below.

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I wonder if my wife will get it me for christmas ?...

 

that's pocket change! well, not for me, but for somebody!

what a useless vehicle though!

 

What was the original purpose for the Kettenkrad?

 

Incredible! The only other place I've even seen one of those things is in a plastic airplane model kit. $100K seems a bit steep, though.

In the airplane kit (ME 262 if I recall correctly) they were used as aircraft tugs. Was that their primary function? How else were they used?

It looks like it would be a bitch to try and turn.

Thanks for the interesting link.

-whatever

-Lou

 

Kinda have to figure out if the front wheel turns it or the tracks as in AFVs.

 

Annoyingly c.£45k is about right for a complete and restored one.
We've seen rusty ex-vineyard wrecks with half the (expensive) track-pads missing with a not dissimilar asking price.

YouTube - Tanks in Town 2007
One of the most capable and desirable off-road toys you could ever want, with the added bonus that as they rumble past at 40mph the ground shakes. You rarely see anybody on a Krad without a huge smug grin on their face while the rest of the world looks on enviously.

Steering can be by the tracks alone, the wheel lifts up clear of the ground if necessary allowing just them to do the work but it looks like very hard work and you rarely see anybody bother. In normal mode the front wheel does the first part of any steering work and the track brakes kick in as more lock's applied.

On their intended role, initially envisioned as a very light artillery tractor/schlepper you only have to see how capable they are to appreciate why it was eventually used by anyone who could get their hands on one for any purpose it could handle, including the Allies.
At Beltring this year one towed a 20mm flak gun through deep mud, and we've also seen 'em make a good fist of dragging a 37mm PaK along.

Top tool.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Good luck

Crap.. To expansive

 

Hey VP!
after watching some of those videos, i can see how that would be a great asset in the war, small, fast, tow capacity, i wonder if anybody ever attached a weapon to that thing!

 

Thanks Adam. I've only seen photos of them on their own.

 

Once again, Poop comes through with a fabulous link!

I really enjoyed watching that - as well as the other associated vids listed on the side.

I'm going to check the penny jar when I get home tonite.

-whatever

-Lou

 

Here's an interesting graphic I found out there:



It shows how the handle bars are attached to the front forks and linked to both of the track brakes.

Interesting.

-whatever

-Lou

 

WOW. Great find. So they are linked? Hmm. They sure think of everything.

 

Those videos are largely from this years 'Tanks in Town' in Belgium Lou.
Tanks_in_town.
I really must go one year...

 

Wow – and we here in the states think we got it good with Sturgis, South Dakota’s Motorcycle Rallye, which is a weekend of drunken bikers and biker-chicks roaring up and down the street on their Harleys’s, Nortons and Indians – Mon, Belgium has “Tanks in Town’. which appears to be a bunch of drunken tankers and tanker-chicks roaring up and down mainstreet in their halftracks, Stuarts and Sherman tanks.

I know which one I’D rather watch….. give me big iron ANY DAY.

(….so, do the tanker-chicks flash their…..oh, never mind!)

-whatever

-Lou

 

A friend at the Mossie Museum has been painstakingly restoring one of these for several years : I've e-mailed him the link ( it may spur him on to get it finished ! ).

I've always thought the Kettenkrad to be a weird thing but watching one riding around in the incredibly muddy conditions at Beltring this year ( when just about anything else was totally bogged down ) made me see that it would have had its uses.....

 

The tragedy is that in Germany there is a bunker in Bavaria chock full of these things. The German army stockpiled them and they are still in storage with a load of other useful kit. I imagine now they are stored for the next defense cut rather than WW3.

Got a ride on one once, fun little vehicle.

 

Scarface, brilliant minds think alike! When I saw the blonde on the back waving her arms with a drink in her hand, I was thinking "Wow tank groupies, cool!"

 

Here are some photographs, which i took earlier this month, of the Kettenkrad that is in Dead Mans Museum at St Marie du Mont, Normandy.

 

Stefan, I'm intrigued, i've never heard of this before. Can you elaborate ?

 

GPS co-ordinates would be nice!

-whatever

-Lou