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Alaskossie · 11-20-2007, 13:47

To answer the questions:

The cab is aluminum (aluminium) with the curved-profile doors from the familiar Land Rover Defender. The bed is steel.

The unladen weight of the truck is 7837 lb. and the payload is 4415 lb. I guess it could be called a2-ton truck.

Esarco made some earlier 6X6 prototypes (extremely nose-heavy!) and 8X8 protptypes, but these all had slab-sided bodies, and most had soft tops. A friend in UK is attempting to negotiate the purchase of one of the surviving slab-sided 8X8's right now. It was sold about 6 months ago on eBay UK.

Here is a photo of my prototype 008, taken in UK when it was near-new, with Terra-tires fitted.

Alaskossie