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.