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 68AutoBug
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Largest produced 4 wheel vehicle- Hummer!!
[size=4]the Largest produced 4 wheel Vehicle is the Hummer - IMHO - Not Longest but I'm sure its the Widest...[/size]:o :thumb:thumb:bounce:bounce:bounce
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on April 10th, 2003 at 01:56 PM |
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Mercedes Unimog!
Bigger in every way and still registerable.
8 gears foward and reverse, gotta be the best 4 wheel drive around!
Long way up to the seats tho...
here's one kitted for comping
[Edited on 10-4-2003 by HotRodMatt]
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| posted on April 10th, 2003 at 02:07 PM |
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another one...
if they weren't in the six figure range they'd be unreal for camping....
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| posted on April 10th, 2003 at 02:21 PM |
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TARTRA
PAH!! who wants 4x4 when only 8x8 will do!:thumb
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| posted on April 10th, 2003 at 07:14 PM |
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I was watching som of the Iraq war footage the other night, which showed a hummer parked in front an APC. It absolutely dwarfed the hummer, made it
look like a fiat bambino in front of a bus.
Ooh, suits you sir!
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| posted on April 11th, 2003 at 12:14 AM |
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at a set of lights today an APC and tank tracks personal carrier (open roof) went past on a truck. They aren't small i can assure you !
i wonder if the tatra is air cooled ! they made air cooled trucks for a while but i assume this one aint !
that unimog rocks, i only wont one to go thru macas drive thru to piss them off !
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| posted on April 11th, 2003 at 10:16 PM |
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Yep, they're still air coolers. Brilliant beasties.
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Andy
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| posted on April 12th, 2003 at 01:38 PM |
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http://www.tatra.cz/enff/products/
Still not a VW though
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| posted on April 12th, 2003 at 09:48 PM |
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and try and drive one in australia,, our roads are not big enough...
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| posted on April 14th, 2003 at 09:42 PM |
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Yeah APC - 'Armoured Personel Carriers' are fairly big until you have to spend two hours at a time crapt in the back with another 9 guys
each holding 25kg packs on there laps or backs. Fortunately I was on the gun (M60) when I used to be in them so I got to stand up at the back half out
of the hatch. Great spot until you start getting shot at - then you start spraying hot shells all over the other 9 guys packed in below you. Not a way
to make friends. You tend to keep supressive fire as short bursts.
I think after two weeks sardined into the back of an APC the forces in Iraq would be glad to get out and fight.
Now you want to talk big - look a Leopard Tank. 43 tonnes and able to hold 80kph at a 12 degree incline while firing sidewards at a target over 3
k's away. Awesome stuff.
I like two particular four wheel drives - The Bush Rangie - V8 all terrain luxery softtop 4x4 and the OKA - All Australian (Except a small microchip)
and some what cheaper than the Benz.
[size=4]Bronze.[/size]
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
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| posted on April 15th, 2003 at 12:50 PM |
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According to the Guinness Book of Records:
Largest Land Vehicle:
The 14,196 tonne RB293 bucket wheel excavator, an earth-moving machine made by MAN TAKRAF (Germany). Used at an open cast coal mine in North Rhine
Westphalia, Germany, it is 220 metres long, 94.5 metres tall and is capable of shifting 240,000 cubic metres of earth per day.
Largest crawler:
The two Marion 8-caterpillar crawlers built to move the Saturn moon rockets (and now the Space Shuttles) to their launch pads at Cape Canaveral cost
$12 million each. They measure 40 metres long by 35 metres wide, and weigh 8165 tonnes loaded. The windscreen wiper blades are 106cm long, the
world's longest.
Largest Bulldozer:
The massive Komatsu D575A Super Dozer weighs 152.6 tonnes. Its blade measures 7.4 metres wide by 3.25 metres high. The bulldozer is 11.7 metres
long.
Longest Road Train:
An 1,018.2 metre-long road train, made from 79 trailers, was pulled over 8 km by a Kenworth C501T near Kalgoorlie, WA, in October 2000.
Largest Caravan:
A two-wheeled five-storey caravan was built for a sheik of the United Arab Emirates in 1990. It is 20 metres long, 12 m wide and weighs 120 tonnes. It
has eight bedrooms and bathrooms, four garages and water storage for 24,000 litres.
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Doug Sweetman
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| posted on April 15th, 2003 at 02:23 PM |
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Check the camber on those two front wheels of the Tatra - yikes !!!
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| posted on April 15th, 2003 at 04:17 PM |
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They must be an experience to drive though!!!
I once had a drive of a 6WD Unimog recovery vehicle (only around a small yard), but still a gret thrill.
Andy
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| posted on April 15th, 2003 at 05:26 PM |
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Doug, the Tatra suspension uses a swing axle similar to early VW's (and Pinzgauers and Haflingers made by Steyr Puch), which is why the camber of
the front axle is so different to the axle behind it.
Phil, those two wheels on that caravan must have been HUGE!!!! I wonder what they towed it with. Whatever it was, I bet it doesn't fit into the
garage in the caravan!!
Kruizin Kol
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| posted on August 20th, 2003 at 12:44 AM |
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Not the largest but definitly the oldest:
Today i saw the 1st 4wd car ever , it is a 1932 muller speedway race car , there were 2 made and only 1 still exists today.
The car is owned by a Yank who resides in the uk believe it or not he sent the car here to get an overhaul by a mate!!!!
I would of thought it would of been easier to of paid for a ticket for me mate to go over there.... but hey who am i to judge.
There is a book that is available here in Australia on this car, pretty interesting .
will take some pics of the car when its a bit more together.
empi
http://www.leydonrestorations.com/Zabout/kudos/press/1999/99road.html
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| posted on August 20th, 2003 at 05:13 PM |
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forget the uni mog....go straight for the maxi mog
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68AutoBug
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Not My Post - Hummer !!!
[size=4]The posting about the Hummer wasn't mine.... How can this happen..
Lee Noonan 68AutoBug[/size]
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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empi
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 08:47 PM |
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Here is a link to the car i was talkin about
it is in melbourne at the moment.
http://www.leydonrestorations.com/Zabout/kudos/press/1999/99road.html
[Edited on 23-8-2003 by KruizinKombi]
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 08:53 PM |
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I believe that there were aftermarket four-wheel-drive fitments on Model T Fords, possibly before 1932. I just wish I could remember where I saw the
article. :bounce
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 09:12 PM |
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Sorry Empi, you didn't see the first four-wheel-drive. 
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After an Indy win in 1931 with one of the “230” straight-8 cars, Miller and friend Harry Hartz traveled to Clintonville, Wisconsin, to visit the
FWD Company, longtime builders of commercial 4wd machines.
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Nevertheless, it is an awesome car!  Great article too! :thumb
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:07 AM |
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Heres one of the 4 wheel drives we build at work, this ones capable of pretty much driving through a bushfire!!!
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:13 AM |
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Here is the Bush Master, another that we build, it can carry 9 fully suited up army dudes,
has full armour plating and mine blast protection.
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:18 AM |
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And the last one is the one im working on at the moment,
its a back hoe thats capable of doing 100kph plus, its 4 wheel drive, a 2 seater and a hell of a lot of fun to drive!!!
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:18 AM |
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i am sure it isnt phat bug but that looks like a toy in its design, one of the early tin ones?
'reckon ?
Looks a beast though !
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:23 AM |
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dirt racing back hoe.....
what can ya say...........?
so whack i love it !
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| posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:23 AM |
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slammed HUMMER....
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