Genuine 1943 WW2 Schwimmwagen for sale
andrewmurphy - August 3rd, 2013 at 08:15 AM
http://english.mashkulture.net/2013/06/20/genuine-1943-ww2-vw-schwimmwagen-fo...
Anyone got $150k they can give me?
split - August 3rd, 2013 at 08:33 AM
Heres a clip of lots of these going in the water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_lXV3p_c5PU
1916baja - August 3rd, 2013 at 11:55 AM
That is awesome!
DubbyFan - August 3rd, 2013 at 05:02 PM
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?!
helbus - August 3rd, 2013 at 08:21 PM
I thought they were common. We had 3 at our work over the last year.
split - August 3rd, 2013 at 08:46 PM
"What do you call a group of Schwimmwagons going for a swim, a flock, probably a school I guess?!"
a smack of schwimmwagongs 
empi - August 4th, 2013 at 09:20 AM
A murder ... as in crows
nils - August 4th, 2013 at 10:26 AM
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A murder ... as in crows
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only when a mounted machine gun is present 
Yogie - August 4th, 2013 at 10:30 AM
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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?!
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A greenies nightmare
Yogie
68AutoBug - August 4th, 2013 at 12:05 PM
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...
HappyDaze - August 4th, 2013 at 12:34 PM
If it is school, it would be old-school.
beetleboyjeff - August 4th, 2013 at 07:11 PM
How about a circle of wagons - worked in the old west :-)
bnicho - August 5th, 2013 at 01:37 PM
Good on the guys in that video for actually using them in the water.
bajachris88 - August 5th, 2013 at 02:31 PM
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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...
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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.
bnicho - August 5th, 2013 at 02:58 PM
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.