Dusty Times

[Jolly Jeeper]

Here's a better You Tube clip from Toby Savage

[tokarev]

I watched the video - looks like a fun experience. Good to hear your group was well received. Look forward to more video.

[Kufra Kiwi]

Thought you might be interested in this photo taken today at the Armistice Day display at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. This is the annual military vehicle show near Cambridge in the Waikato and there must have been a hundred HMVs there including bren-carriers, jeeps, GMCs, CMPs, a Burma Jeep, a Kubelwagen, a Steyr air-cooled V8 truck, several tanks and APCs, a Scammel, Saracen, and a half-track, just to mention a few. And no less than four Chev 1533X LRDG trucks! This might possibly be the first time since WWII that four LRDG trucks (all replicas of course) have been seen together. From the left, we have "Salisbury" then "Tutira" then 2 LRDG Jeeps, then an as yet un-named truck with "Tainui" at extreme right. A fifth truck "Te Aroha III" is in the pipeline, so soon we will have enough for a patrol!

[paul_bish]

I have thought the same thing over the years.

 

could it be a crude form of weight reduction? vintage racing cars always had holes drilled in everything?

[Kufra Kiwi]

Moderator please feel free to shift my post to a more appropriate thread if necessary.

[Enigma]

Thought you might be interested in this photo taken today at the Armistice Day display at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. This is the annual military vehicle show near Cambridge in the Waikato and there must have been a hundred HMVs there including bren-carriers, jeeps, GMCs, CMPs, a Burma Jeep, a Kubelwagen, a Steyr air-cooled V8 truck, several tanks and APCs, a Scammel, Saracen, and a half-track, just to mention a few. And no less than four Chev 1533X LRDG trucks! This might possibly be the first time since WWII that four LRDG trucks (all replicas of course) have been seen together. From the left, we have "Salisbury" then "Tutira" then 2 LRDG Jeeps, then an as yet un-named truck with "Tainui" at extreme right. A fifth truck "Te Aroha III" is in the pipeline, so soon we will have enough for a patrol!

 

Great vehicle display.

Would be ideal for a movie.

[Kuno]

Thought you might be interested in this photo taken today at the Armistice Day display at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. ...This might possibly be the first time since WWII that four LRDG trucks (all replicas of course) have been seen together.

 

An impressive display of these famous desert vehicles!