Special cars

In the past DAF cars also performed successfully in motor sport competitions and the museum exhibits a number of unique models, such one of the two DAFs 55 in which Rob Slotemaker and David van Lennep completed the gruelling London-to-Sydney Marathon. A tremendous feat that was repeated 25 years later, in 1993. Visitors can also admire race cars that are equipped with the Variomatic transmission.

Besides, there are a great number of prototypes of cars that were never taken into production. For example, the royal beach car that Michelotti designed on the basis of a DAF 32 to serve as a beach run-about at Porte Ercole, the Italian summer residence of the Dutch Royal Family. And, of course, the 'mobile raincoat', a three-wheeler that Hub van Doorne built at home and that was small enough to be parked in the family's hallway.