Kettenkrad for sale

Very, very nice...

 

Thanks for the pictures.

 

One more sold on MILWEB recently.
In 24 hours.
For €49,000 !.
http://www.milweb.net/webverts/44315/index2.htm

Still pretty desirable then...


Cheers,
Adam,

 

Apologies for repetition to those that also visit elsewhere:

Just read in November's CMV magazine that another was sold at a Bonhams auction on the very same day as the milweb one mentioned above, only this one was in top-notch condition and realised £67,500 - with commission this is reported to have cost the buyer over £73,000!

Bonhams at goodwood.
Catalogue page & Photographs - looks like an absolute beauty.

 

can you get ketenkrad model kits

 

Dragon do a nice 1/35th one
6128 - Sd.Kfz. 2/2 kleines KETTENDRAD w/sch. Feldkable
6114 1/35 Sd.Kfz. 2 kleines Kettenkrad w/Puppchen
Well, it's nice until you realise you have to attach each microscopic track-pad individually...

Or go the whole hog with 1/6th:
75001 - Sd.Kfz.2 kleines Kettenkrad

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Well, I'm afraid there isn't anything official I can give you, however I do know two chaps who (whilst in the Bundeswehr a couple of years back) were sent to do various jobs in Bavaria, whilst there they wound up on a base which had a large storage facility containing numerous light transport vehicles including Kettenkrad (one of the blokes only told me because he saw a picture of one and said 'we have loads of those' and I couldn't not ask more details!)

Sadly they were in storage for 'when the balloon goes up,' I originally thought it was a bit of a militaria myth until I heard it from these guys. Every now and then a European government (usually Germany, Poland or Russia) sells some of the odds and ends it has in storage, which is why all of a sudden the price of (for example) MP44's goes down as a new batch appear from a 'bunker somewhere in Russia.'

So yeah, just give it a little while and watch the market, I'm afraid that's all I can tell you guys, sorry.

 

Interesting . . . so world governments are now holding on to outdated hardware so that the collector's value will appreciate and the government can make more money off of it. Excellent idea!

 

Hehe, not sure that's quite how it works, they just have them in store and every now and then flog some off. Hell, I know a storeman in the UK who still has a BREN box complete with tool kit and cover (no gun) because it was never taken away by the government. He'll keep it until either the world comes to an end or the government withdraws it.

 

Here is a link to one, with a pretty nice recap of the system itself as well as the auction price of this one (if not the same one), but which shows a Hammer price of 67,500 pounds.

1945 NSU Kettenkrad - Motorbase

and links to other pictures, and it appears that NEW ones are still being made?

 

Same one as above Clint.
As far as I'm aware the Krad finished production around the 50's (maybe even 60's will have to check) and those were largely rather different vineyard tractors, some with the engine mounted much higher for a more 'small tractor' appearance. Might I ask where the suggestion of modern manufacture came from as I'd be very interested?

I'm intrigued by whether the stratospheric price set by this example becomes the norm, until a Running Tiger comes onto the market it looks about the most expensive WW2 vehicle 'pound for pound'.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Sorry 'bout that Adam, I think I mis-read a part of this site as per "modern production":

kettenkrad.com, kettenkrad, kettenkraftrad, military vehicles

 

Hey, apology not required mate! You just got me mildly excited there... .
I've checked up and I've got reference to it being produced in a broadly similar form postwar, but I know I've seen more than one for sale with the front wheel removed and running backwards as vineyard 'tugs', I'm now not sure if these are amateur modifications or 'official' models - just can't find the pictures now, I had one set of such a vehicle being 'restored' to wartime configuration.

I love this shot of a wooden mock-up from the excellent 'Doug's Heavy Metal gallery'


Can't help wondering at the raised eyebrows when this was presented to the brass...


I want one soooo much... can you tell? .

Cheers,
Adam.

 

I love and sold ATVs back in the seventies, and not those measly four and three wheelers of today, but six wheeled fully amphibious three passenger models. The dealership I had was for Action Age (now defunct I think), but they were super units with four stroke engines, the ability to be double tired and tracked up, and to mount electric trolling motors on the bow for fishing. I sold one to guy in Cut Bank with the full dual wheeled (twelve tires), and tracks on the inside set, with a full cab for his kids to drive to the school bus pick-up site. Wish I had kept a picture of that thing, looked totally "killer". The Action Age units were also steered by wheel (not sticks) on a hydralic system with a full "lock up" on the system for the brakes (also hydralic) so you could park it on a major slope, turn a small handle to lock the brakes, and get out and walk away.

Great little units. I sold about ten of them to our freinds and neighbors here in Montana. Top speed on flat ground about 30mph, in water about 5mph, in snow about 10mph, any faster and it would throw the tracks since they were only held on by inflating the fat low pressure (2psi) tires inside of them after they were on.

We're getting pretty far afield from WW2 here though.

 

Oh I dunno, the Krad seems to fit the role of 'highly desirable modern toy' just as well as it did 'useful WW2 vehicle' .

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Kettenkrad...in 50$ of metal
Detektory kovù - Èarovný kovošrot – Detektor web.cz

 

Blimey sallko, nice one. I try and keep up with Detektorweb but missed that!
Few thousand quids of restoration (c.20 euros per track-pad etc.) and that's some bargain!

Now I must get back to hanging around the Wheatcroft Collection's bins in case they accidentally throw one of their four examples...

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Cor if only! Just counted my pennies in my piggy bank but I'm still short 99.9% of the asking price.

Para support as a light utility carrier/ tractor unit.


from:http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder_e.htm














Talking of models I have a couple of these in 6mm.