QOTD: What's Your Disaster Vehicle of Choice?
When I was in my mid-twenties I would rejoice when we got a foot or more of unexpected snow. It meant I could spend the day in my Land Rover, pulling people out of ditches. It wasn’t all fun and games; I became much more experienced at pulling people out of snowbanks, too, which meant that I could… okay, on second thought it was all fun and games. Brother Bark liked to come along, because whenever I helped out a woman whose boyfriend or husband was with her it would give him a chance to make fun of the fellow. It was truly a no-lose situation.
I can therefore totally understand the joy this monster truck driver felt when he finally had a chance to DO WORK with his monster truck. You spend your whole life training for the moment when your stupid jacked-up b**-dozer is useful for something besides making enemies of decent people on the freeway — and then one day the moment comes!
It wasn’t just the monster trucks. All of the lifted boxes, donks, and bubbles had their thirty-six-inch moment in the sun (or the rain) as well, cruising effortlessly through the rising floodwaters. Which leads to a question….
If you knew that your area would be experiencing multiple 500-year floods over the course of a decade, what kind of vehicle would you buy to cope with the issue?
Would you raise your truck? Dub your donk? Put a special commemorative badge on your egg-shaped Subaru thingie? What’s the plan, Stan?
[Images: Michael Keyes/ Twitter, Ford Motor Company]
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No need to read above if disaster vehicle, it'll be Unimog Doka w/truck bed and Super Fast Axle ratio mod.
Something from Oshkosh. HEMTT or 1070 camper or maybe a Ural Expedition Vehicle. Nothing dinky like a 'Mog.