Foden R Type 1934 and Unimog U5000 Crew Cab

I am definitively not a truck enthusiast, except for Unimogs and Paris-Dakar type expedition trucks. So normally I wouldn't have gone to a truck show but my job took me to one. There was some interesting things (modern truck diesels are amazing) but the two things that stood out were these two trucks.

The first is a Foden R Type truck from 1934. The workmanship on the truck was truly great. A wooden cab with brass fittings and all the nice stuff you would expect from something built in 1934. The really interesting thing though is that this model truck actually started off steam powered! The company realized that diesel was the future of truck power and so converted a design made for steam power into diesel. Quite an interesting in between moment.

 The second is something Ive always loved, the Unimog. The sheer UTILITY of the thing! If there was ever a zombie apocalypse this would 100% be what I would drive around! Add a sleeper cab in the back instead of the fire fighter equipment and done. The tires btw are 47 inches tall...hard to tell since theres nothing next to them to compare the size.

FIAT Abarth 2000 by Pininfarina

Obviously from these pictures we can see this is 100% a 1970s concept. Im not sure exactly what year it was made but seems like 1970. It quite good looking from a head on angle, but the rear end in my opinion doesnt flow as well.

In any case, being just over 39" tall it must have made quite an impact back then, and probably still would! The concept was built on a FIAT chassis and fitted with a 2ltr 4 cylinder engine with DOHC's and producing about 220bhp.