Yeah for sure! The primary reason for nazi expansionism. Lebensraum (living space) was really just a place to do burnouts and drifting these wierd nazi creations around icy Russian roads for shits and giggles
Believe me, it is. I know a guy in Nebraska with a working one in his private collection. I went to a ranch he owns there a few years ago. I asked if I could drive and he said Sure on the basis that he ride too so I don’t break it. Sadly, I don’t live in Nebraska, rather the Carolinas, so I only visited him once.
@@lukaskaelin6249 true. I heard the top speed of this thing is 40 mph but good luck getting it to go that fast because it's really dangerous to go top speed in it
* Johnny Johnson recommends "Girls Last Tour" * Should be included with a warning depression, hopelessness, and 'wonders why living in such condition' included throughout the show.
@@KBJade39 true, the ending just makes me more hopeless. it literally makes me cry inside, cuz literally, there's nothing left in that world except the empty mega-structures, which is fucked up. I just wanna forget anything about their story, cuz it's fucking sad
@@thatoneguyinthemiddle1910 if it makes makes you feel better I think the author's newest project features Chi and Yuu in the background happily running a shop
@@mahmoudelsabbal416 the Spike Milligan' school of mechanical engineering....mind you there was a scene in the Longest Day ,where a Beach master gave a stalled vehicle' an almighty whack which did the trick and got the engine running again...best wishes from the wirral...E
My Grandfather was killed just after the German surrender in Italy, he was killed by Partisans mistaking him for one of Tito's Partisans, he was wearing an assortment of uniforms an American Bomber Jacket, his own trousers and boots, a red bandana around his head, also he was armed with a Luger along with his own Thompson, he was said to be driving a German halftrack, that he planned to take back home to New Zealand for the farm, a Kettenkrad would actually have been a more likely and practical piece of war prize to take home from Europe...
I love the Kettenkrad, Johnny. You know why I love it? Girls Last Tour. I love seeing the vehicle in action and was represented very well in that anime. I watched many episodes of it, if not all of them.
My friend Bob has one of these & I've been driven about on it, they're noisy, a bit uncomfortable but absolutely fantastic, real head turner. He does say that the engine isn't easy to maintain.
This Kettenkrad was a cool vehicle, I saw a lot at the Militracks event in Overloon in 2019! And Johnny , +10 points for having Hardy Kruger in your video! kudos to your top channel!
1:44 2:48 The scenes are from the West German film "Waldwinter"(1956, Director Wolfgang Liebeneiner). It is more than amazing that you are familiar with this film, as it is completely forgotten in Germany. Thank you for your meticulous work
I'd heard years ago, that a number of them were brought to the U.S. after the War and used by the Department of Interior for the Parks Service to traverse and maintain the trail systems.
Funnily enough, I had the kettenkrad appear earlier in an alternate timeline, and various interior ministries would trial the thing and would love them to death... after some safety issues were fixed.
Another vehicle that needs to be put back into production!. BTW, NSU is the company that produced them, NSU is still in business today in Germany!. Highly collectable today!, One in good shape and running order will cost about 80-100.000 USD!. But there so cool!!!.
There was a company producing replica Kettenkrads for about $25K. They look virtually identical and had a diesel as an option. A video of a mud hill climb, pitted a jeep, Kubelwagen & Kettenrad. The Kettenrad zipped right up the hill, as the other two struggled for control & traction. (The last original WW2 I saw went for $135K USD).
A great new video, for a brand new year. There are many films about the HMMWV, I am sure you could make a video about the iconic Humvee, only if you have the time, that is. Take care, and all the best.
I guess Johnny Johnson is an anime fan. 🙂 Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou is amazing and scene where the two girls are hidding from the rain a droplets pouring trough the roof, hiting all sorts of things and make noise which in the end, if you listen carefully, create a song is one of the best scenes i´ve ever seen.
I talked to an owner of one at a museum a few years ago. Like anything German they are over engineered. Each track has like a grease port and some type of elaborate system for each track link. He explained it better than I and I was like why? This seems over the top
Interesting. I wasn't sure if these were real or something Steven Spielberg dreamed up cuz it's cool looking. I have watched a lot of WW II war movies and can't recall ever seeing one before Saving Private Ryan.
This was really interesting....shows up how modern Quad bikes have their limitations..well done again for sharing this with us all, cheers / slainte.....E
I tried watching "Girls last Tour", but the first episode made me so depressed. I couldn´t watch it complete. I want to stress, its not BAD but really atmospheric.
The steering was not operated hydraulically, exclusively mechanically. At a rotation of more than five degrees of the handlebar some levers were actuated that braked the track on the inside of the turn, the differential sending the power to the other track.
germany - ok gentlemen we have limited resources we can only produce important things! also germany - half bike half tank, a goddamn bike on tracks.... backs.. no,no.. TRIKE! i NEED it!
Fun Fact: The kettenkrad was used as a basis for the Mittlerer Ladungsträger Springer or Sd.Kfz. 304. It was a remote controlled armored demolition vehicle with 330 kg (728 lbs) of explosives. It was not entirely remote as the driver needed to drive it up until dismounting it near a target. It shared similar problems with its smaller cousin, the Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath, that it was expensive to produce and suffered some reliability issues.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank goodness they were unreliable, on the other hand The Troubles in Northern Ireland were a good testing ground for motorised bomb disposal...and of course later in Iraq..
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Mrs C has suggested APC ,s she reckoned they were easier to handle than our cars ,interesting the British army are struggling to replace the Warrior....
Anyway things go, it's one of the few arguably adorable vehicles the otherwise warlike and loathsome Nahtzees ever made, alongside the Goliath remote controlled mini-bombtank. Still a darn shame the Girls' Last Tour anime adaptation never got towards the fifth and sixth manga volumes. What we got is great, but reaching the true ending would have made things all the more worthwhile... oh, well, let's just hope some animation studio wises up and creates an OVA follow-up for it. Besides, the likes of Mushi-Shi and Inuyasha have already succeeded in finishing up their full anime runs even after some years have passed since original release.
I know this doesn't have much to do with price of toast and Bovril, but a Kettenkrad { albeit heavily modified } was the basis for the chainsaw-tank vehichle that was used in one particularly memorable boss fight in the video game, Resident Evil : Village.
I thought that they started out as civilian vehicles and ended as such. AFAIK, they were speciality vehicles similar to the snow mobile, but a bit broader application, especially for the alpine region. It should be pretty obvious that they excell at driving through unpaved, steep, narrow, paths in forests and mountains and were often besides mules the only way to supply remote cabins... They were used by forrestry workers, some peasants and hunters, people visiting remote stations (radio, weather...) and they were used to lay cables for power and communication.
There were a number of odd purpose built vehicles from WW2 that deserve to be remembered , some on track or wheels wings or on the water or it under . For some there are only a few or a single example , sadly some only exist in books or photos or movies .
It's a neat vehicle to see in person. When you see it in person your like how is this thing gonna work but it works. I've talked to quite a few wwii american vets that's love to use them when captured. Tbh if you had land with rough patches, it's a perfect little vehicle.
Thanks so much! Where are you from? Maybe it's just a weird Canadian way of saying it for me lol. I don't mind a few mistakes here and there I suppose it gives youtube a little personality over polished documentaries 🙂
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Mrs C is always correcting my grammar and punctuation, I guess I,m from the James Joyce / Seumas Heaney flow of consciousness , school of ungrammatical language....with the merest hint of Oscar Wilde....and a nod to the FAB 4...Frankie goes to Hollywood and Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello, a fellow Birkonian..
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Mrs C has asked me to pass on her best wishes on the auto gen stuff, and on the grounds we both had a Fab break in Toronto and Niagara Falls back in 2012, and like me think a lot of the well deserved reputation of the Canadian people for being well....nice..an overworked word but thoroughly deserved...cheers / slainte...E
IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE, KETTENKRAD IS CALLED 半履帶摩托車 OR 半履帶電單車 半履帶=HALF-TRACK 摩托車/電單車=MOTOR CYCLE 摩托車 IS THE NAME OF MOTOR CYCLE IN MANDARIN 電單車 IS THE NAME OF MOTOR CYCLE IN CANTONESE
Bro, this is something my grandpa did ride in reality. In the Bundeswehr, they carried the successor of this with helicopters for the airborn soldiers.
