Genuine 1943 WW2 Schwimmwagen for sale

http://english.mashkulture.net/2013/06/20/genuine-1943-ww2-vw-schwimmwagen-for-sale/#more-89025


Anyone got $150k they can give me?

Heres a clip of lots of these going in the water

That is awesome!

That is cool, so is a group of Schwimmwagons spelt with or without an s on the end? What do you call a group of Schwimmwagons going for a swim, a flock, probably a school I guess?!

I thought they were common. We had 3 at our work over the last year.

"What do you call a group of Schwimmwagons going for a swim, a flock, probably a school I guess?!"

a smack of schwimmwagongs 🙂

A murder ... as in crows

empi wrote:A murder ... as in crows

only when a mounted machine gun is present 😂

DubbyFan wrote:That is cool, so is a group of Schwimmwagons spelt with or without an s on the end? What do you call a group of Schwimmwagons going for a swim, a flock, probably a school I guess?!

A greenies nightmare 😂😂😂

Yogie

No "O" in schwimmwagen

and they look scarey going down a steep ramp into a river..

no wonder You don't see any in old WAR MOVIES...

anything more than a ripple and You would need the life jacket
lol

I believe the gear they use to go into and out of the water is 4 wheel drive.. but it drives normally with the rear wheels..

the engine would be water cooled when in water???

imagine 4 BIG German soldiers with all their gear.. guns.. ammo.. etc...
I wonder how many went to the bottom??

LEE

Great videos there...

If it is school, it would be old-school.👍

How about a circle of wagons - worked in the old west :-)

Good on the guys in that video for actually using them in the water. 🙂

68AutoBug wrote:No "O" in schwimmwagen

and they look scarey going down a steep ramp into a river..

no wonder You don't see any in old WAR MOVIES...

anything more than a ripple and You would need the life jacket
lol

I believe the gear they use to go into and out of the water is 4 wheel drive.. but it drives normally with the rear wheels..

the engine would be water cooled when in water???

imagine 4 BIG German soldiers with all their gear.. guns.. ammo.. etc...
I wonder how many went to the bottom??

LEE

Great videos there...

This is quite an intersting read here Lee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen

The 4wd was only in first gear, and some models had it in reverse too.

The engine bay itself was never submerged, and stayed dry within a sealed 'hull', which makes the bottom half of the schwimmwagen. Heres a pic, showing how the drive shafts penetrate the hull with the sealing necessary to prevent leaks (also note the 4wd prop shaft coming out from gearbox). The quenching of a hot engine into full submerge in a lake isn't very healthy and can easily premote cracks/distorsion:



And to prevent sinking, don't forgot your buoyancy laws 🙂. For every kg of water displaced (1 litre), you get 1kg of upforce. So in summary, if that hull and body holds a volume of 1000 litres of air in total below the water level outside the schwimmagon (1 metre cubed), you get 1 tonne of upforce and thus the car can float with 1 tonne of weight.

It's Wikipedia - Don't expect accuracy. 🙂

I noticed that one of the shots on the Wikipedia site of a Schwimmwagen is almost identical to one I took in a museum in Bratislava in Dec 2008. Obviously the same car.