AEC-engined Willème 6x4, 1989.
I’d say this old wagon has worked hard.
Photo courtesy Alain Mugica.
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Certainly looks like the poor old girl has had a hard time.
Certainly working on the premises only, but definitely had a tough life before!
Nah, probably still pulled out every year for the beet season!
Could have been that indeed!
In other areas the vendange brings out older trucks and trailers of all sorts. Tank bodies are loaded onto flatbeds etc
In more recent years fleets of white rental vans too.
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Now you mention it, the extra boards on the wagon and the conveyor belt tell a story.
I doubt solid-tyred trucks could drive at 30 mph without damaging both the road and the mechanics.
Air-cooled?
Dunno, but it’s fugly. 
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Ideed!
Fitted with a 11.7 litres V8 developing 178 bhp, somewhat similar to Deutz engines.
Tatra to me means air-cooled (think T87, 603, Hans Ledwinka) so I did wonder. As you say, Deutz (e.g Magirus-Deutz lorries).
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That’s a Sabrina isn’t it? So called because its curves were supposed to mimic a pin up girl of the day.
I have never been inside one (calm down I’m talking about the lorry) and often wondered how much extra room that left in the cab.
But I never thought of it as ugly. 
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Sabrina indeed. It goes for trucks as for girls; our tastes may not match, and ins’t it better like that?
I’m seeing a 1418 that failed to stop short of a solid wall.
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