When visiting car shows, I always try to spot the commercial vehicles at the event. Often these can be found on the periphery of the main party, a typical example is this 2016 Ifor Williams tandem trailer, towed by a Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat.
And suddenly the trailer seems to be shrunken…the truck is powered by a 6.7 liter Power Stroke turbodiesel.
Somewhat later a 2011 Hyundai i10 kept the Ford company.
Here’s a 2017 Peugeot Boxer (aka Citroën Jumper, Fiat Ducato and Ram ProMaster) with a 3.0 liter four-cylinder FPT turbodiesel. That engine can also be found under the hood of the bigger and heavier Iveco Daily. Just like the FWD Boxer/Jumper/Ducato, the RWD Daily is available as a panel van, a chassis cab and a minibus.
For the time being, that old Citroën 2CV is going nowhere! As you can see, the Peugeot truck has a trailer hitch. So if desired, you can pick up another French barn find at the same time.
A German couple. The 2008 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 313 CDI box truck is towing a 2002 Tijhof trailer with a classic Hanomag-Henschel F25 chassis cab as its load. These Hanomag-Henschels are also known as the Harburger Transporters.
1980 Scania car (or something much bigger) carrier. According to its registration, the conventional 4×2 truck is powered by a 7.8 liter engine. Therefore, the correct model designation on the hood’s side should be 82 instead of 112, as the 112 has an 11 liter power unit.
I saved the best for last, a magnificent 1957 Mercedes-Benz LP 312 enclosed truck. Typically, this type of bodies -with a crew cab- was used for moving trucks…
…but this one is certainly not hauling furniture. The Alfa Romeo is registered as a 1953 1.9 Spider.
It must be a tribute to the one-off Alfa Romeo 1900 C52 Disco Volante a fianchi stretti, part of the famous Schlumpf Collection.
Has anyone any idea who could have built this? Or maybe we should just contact the Don Andreina Racing Team.
That’s a steep old climb into that ’57 Benz!
I can say from experience if you tried that with a BMW M3 or even a Civic, there’d be some damaged plastics. Does that Alfa count as an SUV? 😉
Lots of sport, not much utility!
Theres a twin cab Renault at the end of my street for sale that looks a lot like that Peugeot flat deck, I like the old Benz furniture van it would make a nice housetruck with a modern diesel installed.
Renault Master double cab, I suppose. Here’s the current model.
Yes it looks like that, guy wants 35k for it, recent import it isnt registered yet
I like it when the transporter and the transported are related.
Drag racer Ted Harbit still hauls his Studebaker drag car (The Stude Tomato) on this Transtar truck.
How about a Mercury version?
Love it!
I have to imagine that the big Ford Is an extremely rare sight in Europe, and very expensive to purchase and keep on the road!
The US-Ram is actually the best selling pickup in the Netherlands… Of course it’s a niche market, but the Ram outsells (smaller) pickups like the Toyota HiLux and the Volkswagen Amarok.
I can’t speak for other countries, but here US trucks get a registration as a commercial vehicle. This keeps the purchase price and the road tax relatively low. You must run some kind of business though, as your profession, otherwise you can’t get such a registration.
This Ford is a diesel, almost all commercial vehicles run on diesel here. The US trucks with a gasoline engine get an LPG conversion (LPG is by far the cheapest fuel per liter). So there you go.
My favorite European car carrier is still the Citroen Loadrunner, like this