1958 Borgward in "Panzer Grey"

[rhinob]

Hey guys....

Not sure where to post this, but thought I'd keep y'all in the loop during the color change and WW2 'conversion' of the Borgward. It's a 9 seat convertible intended as a staff field vehicle / command car.

 

[Lifer]

Whoa! And I thought that the Dodge command cars were ugly!!

 

[rhinob]

Whoa! And I thought that the Dodge command cars were ugly!!

Thank you! Ugly = Useful.

 

[rhinob]

And yes, it has a tiny little pintel receiver like the FBW.

 

[319]

That is cool!

 

[srodocker]

thats aweome
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[M813rc]

Thank you! Ugly = Useful.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I LIKE it! But I think Phantoms are gorgeous planes too....
Always thought those Borgwards were cool trucks. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

 

[Wolf.Dose]

The trailer hitch of the Borgward B2000 is the Rockinger TK226A, good for 75 kg pintle load and a 2000 kg trailer. The bolt is 40 mm diameter, exact new 38.5 mm, the bore of the eye is 40 mm. The A stands for Handhebel abwaerts, which means handle downward.
This trailer hitch is normally the fire department trailer hitch, so your B2000 seems to have served as a fire truck. The German Army used the 1 t Rockinger siutable for the SAE J847 eye.
Wolf

 

[rhinob]

The trailer hitch of the Borgward B2000 is the Rockinger TK226A, good for 75 kg pintle load and a 2000 kg trailer. The bolt is 40 mm diameter, exact new 38.5 mm, the bore of the eye is 40 mm. The A stands for Handhebel abwaerts, which means handle downward.
This trailer hitch is normally the fire department trailer hitch, so your B2000 seems to have served as a fire truck. The German Army used the 1 t Rockinger siutable for the SAE J847 eye.
Wolf

That's quite possible, Wolf. When we ground down the paint to expose the various layers, we found first a tan primer, then a sort of grayish green (Bundesweher) then Red which seems to match RAL 3000. That would have made it a fire service vehicle, or Catastrophen or Zivilian Schutz? Anyway, it was silver when received as it was a balloon recovery vehicle from Bonn.

I'm very happy to have it on the Borgward as this will also pull my modified army trailer mentioned in a different thread.

 

[rhinob]

Some photos of it with the Unimog wheels and tires...