1950s Porsche vineyard tractor - photo

[Jon]

1950s Porsche vineyard tractor, marketed under the Allgaier brand.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...242#post116057
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[mklotz]

It seems Porsche couldn't design anything that wasn't aerodynamic (although the Elefant was clunky). Still better than a Mengele tractor...

[Jon]

Wow, had no idea that was even a tractor company. A quick search revealed that the farm equipment company Karl Mengele & Sons was founded by Josef Mengele's dad: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/07...9295522043200/

[mklotz]

Wow, had no idea that was even a tractor company. A quick search revealed that the farm equipment company Karl Mengele & Sons was founded by Josef Mengele's dad: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/07...9295522043200/

The Germans I spoke with during my residence there held the Mengele agricultural equipment in high regard.

[Scotsman Hosie]

It seems Porsche couldn't design anything that wasn't aerodynamic (although the Elefant was clunky). Still better than a Mengele tractor...

Being a vineyard tractor, it was possibly designed to slip through the olive trees – rather than snag on the branches.

[jdurand]

Being a vineyard tractor, it was possibly designed to slip through the olive trees – rather than snag on the branches.

My thoughts too. Instead of aerodynamic it has to be vino-dynamic.

[Jon]

Instead of aerodynamic it has to be vino-dynamic.

Also acceptable: wine and air are both fluids!

[neilbourjaily@gmail.com]

From tractor to sports car: Lamborghini. From sports car to tractor: Porsche

Of course, Porsche was not the only designer and builder of sleek vineyard or orchard tractors. Farmall, Deere and others built tractors with long-taper fenders that looked like something Jules Verne would have described.