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Posted: 10/18/2014 9:37:38 PM EDT
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View Quote There's one of those at a car lot not too far from me, I am sorely tempted. |
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Quoted: That's a cool one... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VW_Schwimmwagen_1.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Love me some Dodge weapons carriers. +1 The 4x4 reminds me of a WWII Hummer. Tag for Schwimmwagen photos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VW_Schwimmwagen_1.jpg What's German for "doors are for faggots?" |
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Love me some Dodge weapons carriers. +1 The 4x4 reminds me of a WWII Hummer. Tag for Schwimmwagen photos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VW_Schwimmwagen_1.jpg What's German for "doors are for faggots?" The translation loosely sounds like "motherfucker won't float if it has doors because it would leak and we would sink" or something like that in Deutsch. |
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Quoted: Fuck the Kubelwagen, it's not even a 4x4 Who makes a military 2 wheel drive off road vehicle ... View Quote Do you even vintage dune buggy or sand rail, bro? ... I don't see a pumpkin under that front axle... Do you? You obviously didn't drive the dogshit out of a '67 bug, in snow, offroad, and all through high school, ... and I never had a problem. With the engine's weight over the drive axle, and studded snowtires, I could climb hills around western WA, that left other vehicles standing still, spinning their tires. You don't need 4x4 going downhill. |
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Learn something new everyday.
I'll just stick with the jeep since I already have one... |
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Quoted: Did the Brits just use lend lease jeeps? View Quote Original Land Rover prototype after the war were built on Jeep running gear, Maurice Wilks designed as a replacement for the surplus Jeep he owned. There really wasn't anything better than the Jeep until the Land Rover 80, which wasn't surpassed until the late 70s. It recceived little improvement until the mid 80s, but Land Rover never caught up to the compettion. Like the Bug, most parts were common for most of the run - from 52 to 85, nearly identical. But nothing was close to the Jeep in WWII. |
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Quoted: LOL No. I like my front pumpkins.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/derek45/jeep/suzukiAirborne.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/derek45/jeep/11aa98jeepTJ005.jpg Plenty of VW buggies saw my tow-strap and rear bumper though View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted:img] Do you even vintage dune buggy or sand rail, bro? ... I don't see a pumpkin under that front axle... Do you? ... You obviously didn't drive the dogshit out of a '67 bug, in snow, offroad, LOL No. I like my front pumpkins.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/derek45/jeep/suzukiAirborne.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/derek45/jeep/11aa98jeepTJ005.jpg Plenty of VW buggies saw my tow-strap and rear bumper though Because Jeeps never have to get yanked ... especially if they never leave the street or parking lot |
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More schwimmwagon. Doors just another potential leak. I wish they would make a new one, but probably wouldn't be legal in the US for highway use http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wIV375wMVpU/Tce-lKHb4qI/AAAAAAAAD-8/grgj83zDZ3E/s1600/Schwimmwagen_WP.JPG View Quote My favorite WWII vehicle, although there were tons of cool designs running a close second. Here is one of them- The Post-war Sugga was even cooler. |
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Do you even vintage dune buggy or sand rail, bro? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Sandrail_-_Military_application.jpg ... I don't see a pumpkin under that front axle... Do you? You obviously didn't drive the dogshit out of a '67 bug, in snow, offroad, and all through high school, ... and I never had a problem. With the engine's weight over the drive axle, and studded snowtires, I could climb hills around western WA, that left other vehicles standing still, spinning their tires. You don't need 4x4 going downhill. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Fuck the Kubelwagen, it's not even a 4x4 Who makes a military 2 wheel drive off road vehicle ... Do you even vintage dune buggy or sand rail, bro? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Sandrail_-_Military_application.jpg ... I don't see a pumpkin under that front axle... Do you? You obviously didn't drive the dogshit out of a '67 bug, in snow, offroad, and all through high school, ... and I never had a problem. With the engine's weight over the drive axle, and studded snowtires, I could climb hills around western WA, that left other vehicles standing still, spinning their tires. You don't need 4x4 going downhill. Class 11 agrees with you.... |
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Quoted: What's German for "doors are for faggots?" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Love me some Dodge weapons carriers. +1 The 4x4 reminds me of a WWII Hummer. Tag for Schwimmwagen photos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VW_Schwimmwagen_1.jpg What's German for "doors are for faggots?" |
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Love me some Dodge weapons carriers. +1 The 4x4 reminds me of a WWII Hummer. Tag for Schwimmwagen photos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VW_Schwimmwagen_1.jpg What's German for "doors are for faggots?" Metalclozen ze asspokin. |
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Ford GTB. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=45280&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1305979296 I had one of these a few years back - sold it on Ebay. Dude who bought it was from England and jumped through all the hoops to ship it there. It was quite the truck. View Quote From what I've read very few survive on this side of the world. It was for the most part a one way trip into China and once they were there that was it. Oddly enough I know of two in Oklahoma, a VFW display piece and another in a salvage yard. |
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Loved all the old Dodges of that era... in fact many of the common stuff posted had so much more 'soul' compared to many of their later versions
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From what I've read very few survive on this side of the world. It was for the most part a one way trip into China and once they were there that was it. Oddly enough I know of two in Oklahoma, a VFW display piece and another in a salvage yard. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Ford GTB. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=45280&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1305979296 I had one of these a few years back - sold it on Ebay. Dude who bought it was from England and jumped through all the hoops to ship it there. It was quite the truck. From what I've read very few survive on this side of the world. It was for the most part a one way trip into China and once they were there that was it. Oddly enough I know of two in Oklahoma, a VFW display piece and another in a salvage yard. I've seen several. A lot on the Western States, and two in Hobart OK. |
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Quoted: Might as well. Pretty neat IMO http://rs151.pbsrc.com/albums/s122/cr74nva/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_8645_zps9ab63e78.jpg~320x480?t=1413960236 It was treated like a jeep anyways. "We need something new to do this" "We'll we already make this, We could cobble up from that chassis." Something like half a dozen different iterations off the same truck. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I cant recall anything in wide use beyond the above, that would compare to the Jeep. The SPA TL37 looks kinda Jeepish, but its an artillery tractor - hell it weighs 8000 lbs. Might as well. Pretty neat IMO http://rs151.pbsrc.com/albums/s122/cr74nva/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_8645_zps9ab63e78.jpg~320x480?t=1413960236 It was treated like a jeep anyways. "We need something new to do this" "We'll we already make this, We could cobble up from that chassis." Something like half a dozen different iterations off the same truck. Some armies realized they needed a light vehicle, procured and employed them. Others went with what they had, as you point out. Not a bad truck they just weren't in the same class, expedient use aside. |
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