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@Guyfang that..just..umm..well..geeze..I think I'm speechless all I can say now is: to knowingly steal fuel is one thing but to put in wrong fuel without even knowing it is something else! (and p.s it gets more weird when you find out someone poured diesel into the def tank or def into the...

one thing I also never knew of till I had got and read "cars with 2-stroke engines" by mark telford a few years ago was the munga by dkw, and you do have to admit that the two (munga and iltis) could almost be mistaken for each others except for that the dkw had an unusual narrower hood flanked...

can't help you but nice to see theres someone else who likes knowing about the iltis tho (not to get too offtrack, but on a side note I always wondered how small the halfshafts in these things really were as apparently it seem the suggestion was that they were best left in 4wd as much as...

completely unrelated but this talk about gas trucks reminds me of a silly yet real small story from somewhere in uk..I found it in a 'free' scanned-online-for-archival older magazine that I can't recall the name of now lorry was seemingly using a lot of gas so everyone (especially boss) agreed...

for show? as in that its a portable extra-big whip to use on anyone not friendly? I'm just being silly so ignore my questions hehehe

the full-out snorkel pair is obvious but I'm just curious what sort of radio that thing is using? nice second photo either way!

@Eric isley not being openly rude but you need to not post the exact same thing more than once, there is already this for discussions to happen in indeed

just my own opinion: tbh thats the last thing to ever suggest, you want a lighter chassis than that in the first place trailer-wise

btw I know they were very unlikely to ever be found anywhere related to the military but I'll still point out that the 'pontoon' mercedes (180d or 190d, I don't recall which this specifically was now) in the early type of long rally was once remarked by someone as "put a brick on the accelerator...

@msgjd hmm you had me wondering, I had to go try some translations just for fun and umm well yeah I mean I don't know if I should be posting this kind of thing here right now or not .. but anyhow I came up with this 'friendly' swearing that seem easy for an english person to speak; senhora...

be glad that a m274 can't buck you unlike a real mule? sorry I just had to say that here didn't I??? hehehe! (yes this reply was partially meant for msgjd too)

@teletech I guess you need to try drive a vintage vw bus? then again they only had like 20-40hp under that rear access panel so you'll likely have the "same problem" with sand trucks passing you while you're driving one of these bus too ;-)

@msgjd sometimes some people just don't know any better and unfortunate they don't quite help our reputations that way otherwise (regarding working winch or usable tanks) on the other hand there are these kind of people that refuse to sell something without having 'really gone over it with a...

well @Blownaway I'm not sure which auction this is but in the first place you should read the bidding rules as it likely would mention something there. I know at least one non-military auction had the wording to effect of "must be cleared within xxx days, anything yet left behind will be...

only finally looked at this thread now, and yeah I did put my vote in too and hey @Guyfang I don't mean to be silly but I see a funny loophole that he might not like hehehe *proceeds to lightly buck at @kendelrio then scoots off chuckling to myself*

@GeneralDisorder I know you weren't talking about that but in a book I have about trucking humour (real stories nevertheless) he talked about the old tractors that didn't have airbag suspension so you had to practically hang off the steering wheel itself every time you hit a bump. "nothing like...

@UNIMOG-GUY yeah I might have to say that for small diesels vw and toyota are probably the first choices (mind you I didn't mention toyota before because I don't know how well it would shoe in physically beside that I rarely seem to have ever heard of toyota engines in non-toyota vehicles as far...

might be a bit too "apple and orange" but what of older vw diesels? I mean they had 5-inline motors used for the transporter's too

agreed with @kendelrio theres still a lot of 24v bulbs for most purposes out there just as well, considering that various highway trucks often run on them as well (even 24v round/rectangle markers can nearly be found anywhere, just noting)

haven't really seen these type of people for myself personally but @Bill Nutting in one 'stories on the railway' book I have - basically in one particular chapter the writer for that story pointed out that at the time he was a relatively new fitter himself at the shop and wasn't shy to call the...