The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1997
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
1997Research From
Notifications
Clear all
Forum 18
7
Posts
5
Users
10
Reactions
2,402
Views
Topic starter
29/12/2021 12:58 pm
I don't know how many of you are into tractors... I wasn't. But, this model by Schuco was so detailed and so unusual, I had to have it. This is the Lanz Bulldog D9506 produced by Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim, Germany from 1934, through the war (briefly stopping in 1945) to 1955. It's powered by a 10.3 liter one cylinder, two stroke 'hot bulb' engine that will run on diesel, fuel oil or kerosene. It has no valves or carburetor and can actually run backwards. It offered a slew of specialty options and this model seems to have most all of them save for the intake and exhaust piping that allows it to be rum partially submerged.
30/12/2021 9:15 am
Fabulous detail Rich. I can see why you were attracted to the model. Question...do you know what the steel apparatus is just behind the doors?
Topic starter
30/12/2021 5:18 pm
@bob-jackman If you mean those appendages sticking out right behind the doors, I think they tell the operator the width of the rear fenders to prevent fender benders.
30/12/2021 7:53 pm
Thanks Rich.
30/12/2021 8:14 pm
That's an incredibly cool replica. Some very neat features on the 1:1 and, if we were to have a snowy winter and wet spring in Chicagoland, it would make an unstoppable (if not especially luxurious) ride for our thoroughfares !
02/01/2022 4:42 pm
...just a note from "The Land of Lanz" :
those things behind the cab doors are called "Winker", they are predecessors of the later blinkers 😉
and here we have a nice convertible with the winkers on the windshield frame
😀
Ralf Buyer
Wiesbaden, Germany
02/01/2022 6:37 pm
Now this is what I call an SUV.