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Title: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF
Post by: Djetset on April 13, 2010, 06:12:26 PM
To gain a point, what is this, and what is it based on?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on May 14, 2010, 05:05:36 PM
A barrel-load of fun for the Experts.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: metalshapes on May 14, 2010, 06:49:34 PM
Advertisement for Heineken Bier.

No idea what its based on...
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Oguerrerob on May 14, 2010, 09:30:54 PM
My book says is from The Netherlands. Can read "Wie in een Heineken Vat Zit. Verzuurt niet" that means something like "Who in Barrel Is a Heineken. Not sour".  But nothing about the car, sorry!
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: guido66 on May 15, 2010, 03:22:51 AM
Variomaton, Daf based. It was built as an April 1st joke. The year was 1965.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: guido66 on May 15, 2010, 03:25:37 AM
some photo's I found, the last one is a smaller scale version
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: guido66 on May 15, 2010, 03:28:47 AM
A view of the cockpit  :D
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: DeAutogids.nl on May 15, 2010, 03:56:36 AM
Ataf-Porata.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Amsterdam on May 24, 2010, 06:03:29 PM
Variomaton, Daf based. It was built as an April 1st joke. The year was 1965.

Just asking, but is this not kinda solved? ;)
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on May 24, 2010, 06:19:29 PM
Not sure how, but this one slipped under my radar.  Anyway, it is DAF-based (Guido got this first, and thanks for the other great images) and is was a promotional vehicle for Heineken Bier (well done Metalshapes), so a point each.  However, this also has a name, so a final point for the first Puzzler that can tell me what it was called.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Amsterdam on May 24, 2010, 06:33:31 PM
Can't find anything else than the previous mentioned "Variomaton" as its name
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: DeAutogids.nl on May 25, 2010, 04:06:18 AM
Not sure how, but this one slipped under my radar.  Anyway, it is DAF-based (Guido got this first, and thanks for the ohter great images) and is was a promotional vehicle for Heineken Bier (well done Metalshapes), so a point each.  However, this alos has a name, so a final point for the first Puzzler that can tell me what it was called.
As I posted before, the car is mentioned in Jan Lammerse book as Ataf-Porata. Also Variomaton is mentioned in some online sources.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: guido66 on May 25, 2010, 04:12:03 AM
Currently for sale on Ebay: I guess the barrel was already a few years old before they used it as an april's fool joke?

Autosport magazine december 21st 1963

Volume 25 number 25, these magazines offer the very best reports, photography and analysis of their chosen subjects, this weeks issue includes features such as..........

Lotus 23 track tast

Simca 1000 test

Bernd Rosemeyer profile

Trevor Taylor profile

Heineken Variomaton test

750 and 1172 Formulae championship winners 1962

Harewood Hill-Climb, a pictorial description

Warwick Farm race meeting

Report from eire
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: D-type on May 25, 2010, 03:31:45 PM
Currently for sale on Ebay: I guess the barrel was already a few years old before they used it as an april's fool joke?

Autosport magazine december 21st 1963

Volume 25 number 25, these magazines offer the very best reports, photography and analysis of their chosen subjects, this weeks issue includes features such as..........

~
Used to - the current version isn't a patch on what it used to be.  :(
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 09, 2010, 09:24:57 AM
Bump...
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on November 08, 2010, 02:52:30 PM
Lots of correct, accurate information on this one, but for that final point I am still looking for the name that it was also known by (admittedly in English, not in its native Dutch) before it gets rolling along...
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: DeAutogids on November 09, 2010, 05:05:36 AM
What like the "Heineken barrel" or something?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on November 09, 2010, 08:20:16 AM
or something else....

Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on November 24, 2010, 06:57:28 PM
Moving up...
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on May 31, 2011, 06:15:19 PM
About to roll into the Black Hole, so any ideas of its name (in English)?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on June 01, 2011, 01:43:17 PM
Into the Black Hole.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Oguerrerob on August 29, 2011, 11:16:40 AM
A little more info:
This vehicle is the Heineken Vario Maton. That name is obviously inspired by the automatic transmission that adjusts power to the rear wheels, the Daf Variomatic. The engine is the famous Daf 2-cylinder boxer. I suspect that the Vario Maton built in 1962 is because I know that other photographic material of the wheel comes from a Daffodil 30. In this picture there is a Daffodil 30 behind
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Oguerrerob on October 16, 2011, 04:34:04 PM
Another picture.
Heineken vat Variomaton ATAF 1985.
The Heineken barrel (DAF technique based on a kart with a barrel-body), better known as Vario Automaton
This Variomaton is different than the others (plate number and side ads)
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: D-type on October 26, 2011, 09:39:02 AM
Lots of correct, accurate information on this one, but for that final point I am still looking for the name that it was also known by (admittedly in English, not in its native Dutch) before it gets rolling along...
In English eh.
"Barrel of fun" perhaps?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: sixtee5cuda on July 02, 2013, 11:42:51 AM
Solved?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: hermanoto on August 20, 2013, 09:20:08 AM
type of model: Daf-special with barrel-body (translated from dutch) named by Hans Huggenholtz who road-tested the 'Variomaton',  DAF 750 engined, vehicle. It took 13.4 secs from 0-50 km/h. Max speed 75km/h (wind in the back) at Zanvoort racing circuit.

'Rijdende bierton' translated: 'roadgoing-beer-barrel'

No other name then 'Variomaton' is known to me  and common for this vehicle. Recent we found an old movie where my dad filmed my brother inside the barrel +/- 1965 at an event in Vught, the Netherlands.
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Tom_I on August 20, 2013, 11:58:16 AM
By coincidence I was looking at some secondhand books in a shop today, and found a picture of this promotional vehicle in one of them.

It was referred to there as the Vatmobile. Is that the name you are looking for?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Tom_I on October 04, 2013, 06:01:29 PM
 :bump:
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Allemano on October 08, 2013, 06:34:41 AM
Djetset?
Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Tom_I on October 13, 2013, 05:57:46 PM
Last bump, then I give up...  :(

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Title: Re: Djetset #344
Post by: Djetset on October 30, 2013, 11:20:50 AM
Sorry, I've been out of action for a little while!  Anyway, Vatmobile was the name I was lookign for, so a well-earned point to Tom-I, and thanks for your patience everyone.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile'
Post by: Allan L on October 31, 2013, 01:52:24 PM
Something much like it, if not the same one, was the subject of one of Autosport's Christmas Road Tests in the 1960s. Can't remember what John Bolster made of it, but he'd have had a pint or ten before starting it to show fellow feeling. :drive:
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile'
Post by: DeAutogids on December 03, 2013, 04:16:14 PM
Alright, well then you could add it was made by ATAF.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF
Post by: DeAutogids on October 17, 2017, 03:47:57 AM
I have taken some pictures of this vehicle.
(https://thumbs.truckfan.nl/large/d/daf/1192066-overigonbekend-daf.jpg)
(https://thumbs.truckfan.nl/large/g/geen/1192585--geen.jpg)
It was designated "Variamaton" here, during the DAF museum days
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF
Post by: grobmotorix on October 28, 2017, 04:38:41 PM
No visible puzzle photo...

Some more nice contemporary photos: