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The Survivor Truck, built to drive through the end of the world
Yahoo Autos ^ | 11/5/12 | Justin Hyde

Posted on 11/06/2012 12:54:48 AM PST by Kartographer

"Sometimes," author William S. Burroughs once said, "paranoia is just having all the facts." Given the facts gathered from the past few natural and man-made disasters, it's not a surprise that many people have begun to think of what they'd need to survive the next calamity. One California man has taken a kitchen-sink approach and created the Survivor Truck -- a machine that could keep rolling through any given Armageddon.

(Excerpt) Read more at autos.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: preparedness; vehicles
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1 posted on 11/06/2012 12:54:57 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Through the end of the world or ‘till you run out of gas.


2 posted on 11/06/2012 1:00:52 AM PST by Bullish (The stench from this amateur regime stinks all the way to Kenya.)
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To: Kartographer

Or you run over government spike strips.


3 posted on 11/06/2012 1:06:21 AM PST by Terry Mross (To former friends and relatives. Don't ever contact me if you still support obama.)
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To: Kartographer

Where is the 50? let alone the hooks for the Mortar Base plates (them suckers are heavy)... I am too old to run alongside this thing providing protection...

TT


4 posted on 11/06/2012 1:06:55 AM PST by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: Kartographer

But ... I like it

TT


5 posted on 11/06/2012 1:08:37 AM PST by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: Kartographer

It’s a freakin milk truck or a modern day chuck wagon...


6 posted on 11/06/2012 1:11:10 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Kartographer

Yow!!!


7 posted on 11/06/2012 1:16:33 AM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: IncPen

ping ??


8 posted on 11/06/2012 1:21:38 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Kartographer

"...those stairs look like something that smacks ya up the side of the head with a boxing glove on the end"

9 posted on 11/06/2012 1:29:09 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kartographer
I prefer my "Survivor Truck" to be staffed by George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vinent:


10 posted on 11/06/2012 1:36:36 AM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Yossarian

Er, that should be “ Jan-Michael Vincent”....


11 posted on 11/06/2012 1:37:26 AM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Kartographer

But would it make it through Frogtown?

12 posted on 11/06/2012 1:37:58 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: uglybiker
Hell yes it will! Plus its Aunty approved!!

13 posted on 11/06/2012 1:43:04 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

The Duke of New York has his doubts.

14 posted on 11/06/2012 2:00:57 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Kartographer

Just wait until all fall down, and requisition a tank.


15 posted on 11/06/2012 2:09:02 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Kartographer

Ready to drive through the end of the world and no one can find the keys to the truck.


16 posted on 11/06/2012 2:42:42 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Yossarian

What movie is that from? Thanks.


17 posted on 11/06/2012 2:43:25 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: spetznaz
What movie is that from? Thanks.

1977's "Damnation Alley".

The movie is garbage, but the badass Landmaster is very real.

18 posted on 11/06/2012 2:51:00 AM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Bullish

Although I don’t believe the end is near, when you talk about the “end of the world”, it means The End, right?...and you don’t get through it because there is no “through”, so why even bother? Unless you have access to a worm hole or something, that’s all she wrote.


19 posted on 11/06/2012 2:58:57 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Yossarian

Thanks. That truck ...seems it would be effective from a civilian standpoint.


20 posted on 11/06/2012 3:13:54 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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