SOLVED: Djetset #344 - DAF-based 'Vatmobile', built by ATAF

[Djetset]

To gain a point, what is this, and what is it based on?

[Djetset]

A barrel-load of fun for the Experts.

[metalshapes]

Advertisement for Heineken Bier.

No idea what its based on...

[Oguerrerob]

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!

[guido66]

Variomaton, Daf based. It was built as an April 1st joke. The year was 1965.

[guido66]

some photo's I found, the last one is a smaller scale version

[guido66]

A view of the cockpit  :D

[DeAutogids.nl]

Ataf-Porata.

[Amsterdam]

Variomaton, Daf based. It was built as an April 1st joke. The year was 1965.

Just asking, but is this not kinda solved? ;)

[Djetset]

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.

[Amsterdam]

Can't find anything else than the previous mentioned "Variomaton" as its name

[DeAutogids.nl]

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.

[guido66]

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

[D-type]

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.  :(

[Paul Jaray]

Bump...

[Djetset]

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...

[DeAutogids]

What like the "Heineken barrel" or something?

[Djetset]

or something else....

[Djetset]

Moving up...

[Djetset]

About to roll into the Black Hole, so any ideas of its name (in English)?

[Djetset]

Into the Black Hole.

[Oguerrerob]

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

[Oguerrerob]

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)

[D-type]

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?

[sixtee5cuda]

Solved?