Mark Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Is this the way you use your MV's or something else :schocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FV601 (R.I.P.) Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Its really good top see these old girls being put through their paces as they should be rather than seeing the owners taking a cloth to the tyres wiping off the blades of grass :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I did some hardcore offroadin in the Ardennes - cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Looked like good fun to me - using the vehicles the way they were designed for!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Great fun, a little rought I have to admit but great fun nonetheless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saracenstump Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 great maybe we should do it over here :-D :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 great maybe we should do it over here :-D :-D We will see your Saracen on the off road course at Beltring in July, then? :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saracenstump Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 oh yes but we'll have to make sure theres something to pull it out when it runs out of fuel :roll: :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Very nice - those Dodges are great vehicles. I would dearly love to put a GMC through its paces, not my one :cry: but if I get another one then I would like to see what they really can and can't do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick garner Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 that guy who rammed the jeep straight into the mud was a bit of a donut! :-o I think they need some post war brit kit to show em what a real off roader can do!! :-D :-D mick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick garner Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 for example: Neil in his unstoppable Stolly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Didn't you see that nice post-war landrover getting stuck in the mud? And that nice wartime Dodge hanving to pull it out of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I think that the pound for pound the Dodge has to be the most superior vehicle of WW2. Anyone agree of disagree with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I agree! But then again, I'm biased Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 I think that the pound for pound the Dodge has to be the most superior vehicle of WW2. Anyone agree of disagree with that? It's probably the most good looking vehicle, like the Reo is post war but whether it is superior I do not know, more vehicles had a bigger impact on the war effort like the duece and half, remains to be seen I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 oh yes but we'll have to make sure theres something to pull it out when it runs out of fuel :roll: :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Don't worry - little Maud will be there too - just in case!!! 8-) :-D (are we still going for the swimming pool in the back???) I think that the pound for pound the Dodge has to be the most superior vehicle of WW2. Anyone agree of disagree with that? Certainly seems to be, ability-wise, in that video :-) for example: Neil in his unstoppable Stolly. Errr - wouldn't say it was unstoppable - forgetting to fit the bilge plugs before swimming would be a pretty good way of stopping her :shake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Don't worry - little Maud will be there too - just in case!!! 8-) :-D (are we still going for the swimming pool in the back???) Hope you're not thinking of going down the same road as some other groups at Beltring.. Swimming pools, beer umbrellas & Billy Smart's Big Top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 It's probably the most good looking vehicle, like the Reo is post war but whether it is superior I do not know, more vehicles had a bigger impact on the war effort like the duece and half, remains to be seen I think Wouldn't disagree with you there Mark but I thinking about the functionality of the Dodge, it play so many roles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Hope you're not thinking of going down the same road as some other groups at Beltring.. Swimming pools, beer umbrellas & Billy Smart's Big Top Yep seeing as Rex threw a wobbly last year/this year with some antics going on with pools, we are on a drought you know (have been for years) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Wouldn't disagree with you there Mark but I thinking about the functionality of the Dodge, it play so many roles. Yes I suppose it did but did not the (hate to say it) Jeep, that was used in many a role, stretcher carrier, Urmm! you know :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Yep seeing as Rex threw a wobbly last year/this year with some antics going on with pools, we are on a drought you know (have been for years) Oh yes???? Do tell!! :-D :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 We will see your Saracen on the off road course at Beltring in July, then? :-D On-road, off-road - what's the difference in a Saracen? My first ever experience of driving a military vehicle (if you exclude the RMP motorcycle trials before I tole the RMP where they could stick their truncheons) was a few days after I arrived in Omagh on an IS tour. The drivers all having swanned off to Tidworth on conversion training to CVR(T) for our upcoming new recce role, there was a shortage in our troop. Having a Group A pre-existing my joining the Army, I was qualified to drive a Ferret (B licence) from Day 1, so one evening we took out the troop's Saracen (a rare occurrence) and I was to follow in a Ferret. We drove past an RUC station with an oil-drum and speed-ramp chicane in front of it to slow the traffic down. The Saracen in front went through flat out and having 6 wheels, it didn't there was no discernable effect on the vehicle's body. I kept my foot down in the Ferret, but became aware of an ever-increasing whine which I simply couldn't place. Then I realised that my commander had worked out that I was going to take the same line and speed through the chicane. The whining stopped when I hit the first speed ramp, to be replaced by a dull thud when we landed, other side of the chicane. That said, I do remember in 1977 as Squadron Leader's driver parking in a leaguer near Lulworth Ranges behind one of the ACVs. Couldn't help but notice that the Can sank much deeper into the mud than the Scorpions all around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooTallMike Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 quote: "I would dearly love to put a GMC through its paces, not my one cry but if I get another one then I would like to see what they really can and can't do." I just came across this pic. of me playing in my old GMC which might give you an insight into what they can do... - Mike [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Nice :schocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Heavy steering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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