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New Army jeeps - cool !

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  • #32
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,240 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Silvera wrote:
    Don't forget the SAS in the UK (and many other special forces) use open Land Rovers like those pictured above, or similar jeeps.
    I think they prefer the 6x6 or is it 4x6 version.
    Silvera wrote:
    Yes, the new jeeps will probably spend most of their time on foreign ops, thats why they chose left hand drive models.
    I'm not sure if that was necessarily a consideration, the cost of customisation to RHD (is it available in RHD) and access to spare parts would have been.

    Being LHD in a RHD country has advantages on narrow / windy / hilly roads where knowing where the edge of the road is, is more important than knowing where the occassional vehicle is.


  • #33
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    Silvera wrote:
    Yes, the new jeeps will probably spend most of their time on foreign ops, thats why they chose left hand drive models.

    .....


    Thought about that and figure it to allow the cannon mount to the right, that way the hot shell cases will not be pouring down the drivers back, ..... which may be a welcome change from being wet and frozen.


  • #34
    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭Silvera


    Hey, AMurphy, do you really have 142k on the timimg belt of your '89 Camry ?


  • #35
    vector
    Registered Users Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    RicardoSmith wrote:
    And you'd want to stop it because....?

    Because it is a nice looking building


  • #36
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    Silvera wrote:
    Hey, AMurphy, do you really have 142k on the timimg belt of your '89 Camry ?

    Yes. and on the Power Steering belt also.
    Reason, I'ts a beech to get at and change, engine put in with a shoehorn. I've been meaning to get "a round tuit" for the past several years, but something always gets in the way and I rarely send stuff to the garage to get done.
    Don't lecture me, I know thin ice when I see it.


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  • #37
    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭Silvera


    AMurphy wrote:
    Don't lecture me, I know thin ice when I see it.

    142k !!! You're either a brave or foolish man :D


  • #38
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    Silvera wrote:
    142k !!! You're either a brave or foolish man :D

    Conducting a secret experiment for Toyota, so secret even Toyota do not know of it.....anyway, I though I asked not to lecture?.


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