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

    1950s Porsche vineyard tractor - photo-mengele.jpg

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    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/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scotsman Hosie View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdurand View Post
    Instead of aerodynamic it has to be vino-dynamic.
    Also acceptable: wine and air are both fluids!

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    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.



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