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dolem98
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| dolem98 wrote: |
Is this the perfect bug-out vehicle/house? |
What am I looking at?
I see duck tape, sneakers, a fashion boa, a very small oil derrick, and Jerry Garcia.
Does it fly.
Now I happen to have a neat bugout vehicle: 1995 Geo Tracker. 1,590 cc 1.6 liters 4 in-line front longitudinal engine, with 80 HP @ 5,400 rpm. Weight 2246 lbs. 4-wheel drive manual-locking front hubs. 24/26 mpg.
| wiki wrote: | | The Tracker was different from most other light SUVs on the market in that it is based on a rugged light-truck chassis. Although it appeared to be a comfortable passenger SUV, it was bolstered by a sturdy off-road 4-wheel drive system with a conventional light truck engine and transmission coupled to a hi-lo, 2-4 transfer case. The Tracker had a strong front suspension with a rugged recirculating ball steering box. The conventional front differential was rigidly mounted ahead of the engine, with U-jointed drive-shafts connecting the coil-spring front hubs to the differential case. The rear axle was a conventional light truck unit on coil springs. As a result of the truck-like underpinnings, the Tracker had a fairly harsh ride, but the benefit was its notable durability in harsh conditions. |
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Revi
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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How about this one:
www.sunnev.com
I think the smaller and lighter the better. Did you see the traffic jams in Texas when Hurrican Rita was headed there? SUV's didn't work as bug out vehicles. I think a bicycle could be the best thing for getting out of a city. Bring some pepper spray or something and ride like the wind.
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| Revi wrote: | How about this one:
www.sunnev.com
I think the smaller and lighter the better. Did you see the traffic jams in Texas when Hurrican Rita was headed there? SUV's didn't work as bug out vehicles. I think a bicycle could be the best thing for getting out of a city. Bring some pepper spray or something and ride like the wind. |
After reading about the Argentina crisis in the 90's I reconsidered my little SUV. Seems you want to be able to drive around improvised road blocks and that means going over sidewalks, through park and yards etc.
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BigTex
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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dolem98
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| It's supposed to be a cross between a bike and a house. Probably a prototype . |
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:10 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| Where are the gun turrets or window slits? I don't see a cattle catcher either for clearing a path through the hunger-zombies. |
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:38 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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Keep it simple
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| dolem98 wrote: |
Is this the perfect bug-out vehicle/house? |
This was shot in Portland...the vehicle pictured is/was in pieces due to the owner having a freak out and beating the crap out of it, orignally he blamed vandals. I think he was severely depressed.
The story was actually an interesting one to follow. Don't know if he ever re-tooled his creation, I do know the community was trying to help him out. What was cool was that there was reports of people seeing this man and his vehicle as far down as Cali!
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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Heh, I talked with that dude, a few years back. Gave him a ride to medford to get parts for another 'moble home'. Getting parts consisted of digging through dumpsters.
It was sorta a neet rig, 600lbs+, but fairly ridable(or it looked ridable, I never rode it. Lots of gears, flywheels. It was a bicycle, beleave it or not. I heard that he made it over the pass, MT. ashland I-5, more than once.
Silly, but a stylish way to turtle yur home. |
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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| BigTex wrote: | |
LOL! I can see one of these towed behind every bug-out houseboat, much like the small SUVs towed behind giant RVs.
Note: Not that I'm dis-ing houseboats, but the imagery was too psuedo-prophetic to share.
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idomar
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Bug-out vehicle |
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I kinda like this one
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