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> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
>> "Exit" <[email protected]> wrote in news:xv%Ab.31426$7S1.23856@news-
>> lhr.blueyonder.co.uk:
>>
>>> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
>>>> [posted and mailed]
>>>>
>>>> The only (current) Volvo with decent 4wd....)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dakar2004.nu/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (click the links in the 'latest news' section on the lower end of
>>>> that page for video's; couldn't get the videolinks through the
>>>> pull-down-menu above to run, neither some of the pictures in the
>>>> galleries)
>>>
>>> Current? It's an old army C303 with a daft looking body dropped on
>>> it!
>>
>> C30x are the civilian versions, you mean TPG11....)
>> (even though somewhere it says either axles or gearbox came from a
>> TPG20 (6 ton version LWB 6x6 (C306), instead of the 3 ton version 4x4
>> (C303) (there is also a 4 ton version SWB 6x6 (C304))) ....but I
>> believe the main difference between the two is in the overall
>> gearing, not in strength).
>>
> I find it hard to get enthusiastic about Volvos. . . . . . . ;-)
No, those C30x's are fine, and apparently that drivetrain can take a lot
more power than it's Teutonic twin, the Pinzgauer.
One more interesting detail of the C30x drivetrain: it's the only one I
know that engages 4wd (parttime, rigid front/rear connection) during hard
braking (and with engine off, but I believe there are a few more odd 4x4's
that do this (just to be sure that the parking brake has maximum effect)).
http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/4wd-engaged-when-braking.txt
>>> Maybe Ford could get a LR 101 chassis with a Jag XKR cabrio body on
>>> it and enter. . . . . .
>>
>> A Dutch team did last year, an old Jaguar XJ body on a RR core....)
>> Of course, the good thing is that a body can't leak fluids, and most
>> electric stuff will have been removed too....)
>
> Should've fitted it to a Toyota chassis, though I hear the Toy engines
> are programmed not to start unless the body has sufficient chrome,
> two-tone paint and at least a cars length of fake stitching moulded into
> the dash. . . . . ;-)
You missed the TopGear episode where they try to trash a Toyota pickup,
and it keeps running and running like a perverted Duracell Bunny?
Haven't seen it on Dutch TV yet sadly:
(not that this is a lowly pickup, not even a Land Cruiser; significantly
smaller drivetrain components....
)
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For those who don't watch the BBC...
Their "Top Gear" programme has been testing the thesis that a Toyota
pickup is indestructible. They bought an old pickup truck (Hilux?
4-runner? I'm not good at pick-ups) and:
- drove it into a tree
- drowned it in the Bristol Channel (completely immersed in salt water for
12 hours, the tie-downs were broken by rip tide) - hit it with a wrecking
ball on the end of a demolition crane - drove it through a shed - dropped
a caravan on it - set fire to it
And it still started and ran (all they did was use ordinary tools + new
oil & fuel)
Finally last night they placed it on top of a 240 foot tower block that
was then completely demolished by explosives. They pulled it out of the
wreckage, added fuel and oil, and it ran - just.
Insane, but impressive!
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT
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Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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