{"id":88070,"date":"2022-01-04T13:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=88070"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:41:29","slug":"daf-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/daf-600\/","title":{"rendered":"DAF 600"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Small family cars for the general public were booming in the 1950s. Italy produced the Fiat 500, France the Citro\u00ebn 2CV and Renault 4CV, Germany the VW Beetle and the GDR the Sachsenring P70 Zwickau and later the Trabant P50. It is often forgotten in such a list, however, that there was also a similar vehicle in the Netherlands. As early as 1928, Hub van Doorne founded a machine factory in Eindhoven, which initially carried out forging and welding work for the Philips engineering group and for inland shipping. Soon the first bus bodies on semi-trailers were added. After the younger brother Wim van Doorne joined the company, they had to look for new fields of activity due to the world economic crisis in the 1930s. This led to the new company name “Van Doorne’s Aanhangwagenfabriek” (Van Doorne’s Trailer Factory, DAF for short) in 1932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Various semi-trailers were followed by the company’s first own truck in 1936. During World War 2, only tractor units for the military were built. In the post-war period, the specially developed trucks finally went into production. The Van Doorne brothers quickly recognized the existing desire for mobility among the population. Thus, starting in the mid-1950s, they began developing a four-seater small car. In 1957, they published the first details to arouse the curiosity of potential customers. At the Amsterdam Motor Show in February 1958, the vehicle finally made its debut as the DAF 600. The number indicated the rounded-up displacement. This amounted to 590 cc and was distributed over two cylinders of a four-stroke boxer engine. Power was 15 kW\/20 hp, which was sufficient for a topspeed of 56 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n

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