DAF 600

The DAF 600 was a small car, the DAF produced in Eindhoven (the Netherlands ) in the model years 1959-1963. It was the first car manufacturer and was presented in February 1958 at the Amsterdam Motor Show. 1957 DAF had already published the first details. He had a two-cylinder boxer engine with 590 cc displacement and an output of 22 hp (16 kW) at 4000 min -1. The engine has front mounted gearbox to the rear axle. He reached a top speed of just over 100 km / h

Like all DAF according to this model, the DAF 600 was equipped with a centrifugal clutch and a continuously variable, powered by V-belt automatic VARIOmatic. The DAF VARIOmatic works with flyweights that are pressed by springs against the centrifugal outward added vacuum doses that produced by the suction from the intake tract of the engine a displacement. The vacuum from the intake tract of the engine pushed the conical pulleys to a position with higher translation if you slowly let go of the accelerator: Although the engine speed remained the same, the transmission increased the travel speed, in the case of DAF 600 of 96 km / h to almost 112 km / h This took a long time, however, even if the road did not rise.

The VARIOmatic also allowed an increased engine braking when you pressed a switch on the dashboard, which reversed the effect of the vacuum boost, with a higher vacuum meant a lower gear.

The reverse gear has been realized by a separate gearbox. The cars drove by just as fast backward as forward, what the remaining copies long time made ​​them favorites among backward driven nonsense race.

The twelve- inch wheels were suspended individually in front by a wheel- transverse leaf spring and damper struts with rack and pinion steering and rear of pendant semi-axes with coil springs and telescopic shock absorbers. There were no joints of the drive shafts, the belt has been rotated slightly to accommodate the change in angle during compression. Was slowed with hydraulically operated drum brakes on all wheels.

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