Motoring after the Apocalypse

[kato13]

Hmmm, if you want motorized form of transport, a "SEEP" (amphibious jeep) would be cool and if you can make enough fuel, an amphibious DUKW (Duck" with 6 wheels) would even be better. Would be cool to make a motorhome out of a DUKW too and it would double as a houseboat. I even saw a late 1940's era magazine that suggested turning a DUKW into an RV. There was also a civilian "Amphibicar" made in Germany too, early 1960's, one of our local radio stations had one back then too.

Chuck M.

I have always wondered what happened to the DUKWs that are used for tourism in the Wisconsin Dells, in the T2k world. I think there are about 100. I remember during the tour they discussed that they used their own machine shops to manufacture parts as they are difficult to find. This bodes well for their continued operation.

Game wise they might have been commandeered by the 1st Brigade 49th Armored as they would have passed through the dells on their way from Chicago to Fort McCoy. Perhaps they were then used by the division for transport down the Mississippi once the division was directed against the Mexican forces.

[firewalker]

dog cart with real dog's, or goat cart (those son'bit live on anything).

[Mohoender]

I have always wondered what happened to the DUKWs that are used for tourism in the Wisconsin Dells, in the T2k world. I think there are about 100. I remember during the tour they discussed that they used their own machine shops to manufacture parts as they are difficult to find. This bodes well for their continued operation.

Game wise they might have been commandeered by the 1st Brigade 49th Armored as they would have passed through the dells on their way from Chicago to Fort McCoy. Perhaps they were then used by the division for transport down the Mississippi once the division was directed against the Mexican forces.

You'll find several also in Boston and I'm sure that a number of Russian version (BAV-485, I think) are still running. By the way I just watched the movie "second civil war" yesterday. They had an interesting idea about old type equipments that would be used again (M24 chaffee, M4 Sherman). That was developped in T2K but I would expect to find some of these all over. Not only seep but also jeep, beep, half-track..., the rare Schwimmwagen also

[Targan]

dog cart with real dog's, or goat cart (those son'bit live on anything).

A goat cart. Wild, man, just wild. I'm so going to have a dude on a goat cart turn up in my campaign. When it happens I'll think of you Firewalker.

[copeab]

A goat cart. Wild, man, just wild. I'm so going to have a dude on a goat cart turn up in my campaign. When it happens I'll think of you Firewalker.

I find the symbolism of a person using goats as a conveyance in in a post-apocalyptic setting mildly ironic and amusing

[firewalker]

Goats are the cockroaches of the ruminated world and thay come with milk

[spielmeister]

I have always wondered what happened to the DUKWs that are used for tourism in the Wisconsin Dells, in the T2k world. I think there are about 100. I remember during the tour they discussed that they used their own machine shops to manufacture parts as they are difficult to find. This bodes well for their continued operation.

Game wise they might have been commandeered by the 1st Brigade 49th Armored as they would have passed through the dells on their way from Chicago to Fort McCoy. Perhaps they were then used by the division for transport down the Mississippi once the division was directed against the Mexican forces.

Speaking of DUKWs, I've seen a few of them still running somewhere near where I live. There's a district northeast of Manila called Malabon where my wife's family hails from. It floods there almost 24/7, mostly due to a combination of its low-lying location next to the sea and the choked up estuaries and canals which are not enough to drain the water from the streets.

I drove my wife over there once and saw what her relatives termed as an 'amphibian'. Upon closer observation, I noted that it was a modified DUKW. It seems the local businessmen bought up a lot of old US-issue mil vehicles and used them for their fishing operations.

[Graebarde]

Goats are the cockroaches of the ruminated world ......and thay come with milk

CABRITO!!!!!!!!! Milk hell, that's good eats. Besides ya don't milk a billy LOL. Seriously, that is a good idea. Depending on breed, though it would be a light load, maybe garden cart sized at max with one goat.


As for my selected mode of transit. In character horse for first choice or foot. Perhaps not as fast as vehicle, but gotta eat anyways, and as the old grunt saying goes, "If ya can't carry it ya don't need it. Light and flexible."

But since they are NOT on the catagorie list it would be a small 'common' civilian off-road type such as the Toyota 4x4 pickup or 4-runner size. (god I loved my toy SR5.)

Grae

[chico20854]

Speaking of DUKWs, I've seen a few of them still running somewhere near where I live. There's a district northeast of Manila called Malabon where my wife's family hails from. It floods there almost 24/7, mostly due to a combination of its low-lying location next to the sea and the choked up estuaries and canals which are not enough to drain the water from the streets.

I drove my wife over there once and saw what her relatives termed as an 'amphibian'. Upon closer observation, I noted that it was a modified DUKW. It seems the local businessmen bought up a lot of old US-issue mil vehicles and used them for their fishing operations.

I ride past a dump for old DUKW's on my way to work... there is a company that maintains a few in operation for tourists in DC (I've never seen them in the water, but they might...) and has a few extra (in horrid condition) as spare parts sources.

[General Pain]

If there is a nuclear winter (or even a conventional winter for that matter) in Europe a solar powered car would be especially boring because it would be stationary. Unless you pushed it or hitched a draft animal to it.

that was what i was thinking: a slave-pulled solarpowerd apc.....

[Targan]

that was what i was thinking: a slave-pulled solarpowerd apc.....

Your mind terrifies me General. And not all that many things give me The Fear.

[Brother in Arms]

I have to second earthpig in using a canoe especially if you had a small operation and where looking to go undetected.

Now If I needed a vehicle of some kinda I would look for a Diesel Toyota pick-up truck (Hi-lux to you foreigners) though they are not very common in the U.S.
yota's run forever, they have good engines and transmissions though the bodies often rusted out.

Another good one would be the old International Harvester Scout but with the Nissan diesel engine.

I would run bio diesel in either vehicle. Of course if I had access to military vehicles, I might take one. Unfortunately I am not very well versed in fixing vehicles. So I would probably be in a canoe, or on horseback if my lady freind was nice enough to lend me one of her horses.

otherwise I might end up looking like these guys if I broke down

[dvyws]

Given the original Top Gear slant of the thread, the answer has to be that Toyota pickup that can't be killed (immersed in the Bristol Channel overnight, set fire to, and dropped with a collapsing block of flats, and it STILL ran...). Truly the perfect vehicle to cope with Armageddon...

[pmulcahy11b]

How about a sedan chair

[Nowhere Man 1966]

that was what i was thinking: a slave-pulled solarpowerd apc.....

Good one, I like your style! I can see it now, it would look like something out of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Wonder how they (and Carl) would survive and do in the world of Twilight

BTW, love the avatar.

Chuck M.