How about this one?
Posted on 09/30/2024 5:15:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
This Terradyne Gurkha RPV could be yours if you're also a rich weird dork \ Are you a weird dork, but the prepper kind that lives in a bunker because they’re afraid of EMPs instead of the wannabe-future-tech kind who lives in the metaverse? Then boy howdy do I have the truck for you. This 2020 Terradyne Gurkha RPV is a ’roided up Ford F-550 Super Duty with real actual armor and real military purpose, but you can buy it and drive it on real American roads to show everyone how big your, um, ego is. It’s currently up for bidding on Cars & Bids, and it isn’t going to go cheaply.
Terradyne’s civilian trucks pick up where Hummer left off, delivering a giant diesel V8 with lots of torque, plus an uncomfortable interior and dimensions that makes everyone around you on the road instantly angrier. Seriously, this truck is a full foot wider than a Ram TRX, which is already too wide to comfortably fit in most places. At just over 8 feet tall, this monster definitely won’t fit in your average garage. And weighing an impressive 15,500 pounds (or more depending on options) this truck is too heavy for a lot of bridges. There’s nothing I’m afraid of enough to justify the absolute pain in the ass this thing must be to drive on the street. The tires are only rated to 81 miles per hour, so if you’re the type to get road rage and zoom down the highway at 100-plus, maybe this isn’t the truck for you.
Under the hood is a Ford 6.7-liter turbodiesel engine, making 330 horsepower and an impressive 750 pound-feet of torque. It needs that much torque, and a forty-gallon diesel tank, just to push around this massive lump of iron. On the plus side, it’ll probably crawl over just about anything, and whatever it can’t get over, it’ll just plow right through.
If you needed any kind of succinct explanation of who the Terradyne Gurkha RPV is for, Alex Jones owned one. So if you’re the kind of really cool guy who thinks you need one of these monster trucks, head over to Cars & Bids where the bidding is, as of this writing, up to $88,001, though will surely blow up from there. This Gurkha sold on Bring a Trailer last summer for $387,000.
How about this one?
I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger having something like that.
Doesn’t the body have to be removed for major service?
Yeah....I’d drive it.
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I used to have a 1986 Ford Ranger.
I put 296,000 miles on it.
Reliable truck. Had the 2.9L V6.
But just one thing … Do you frequently have headlights burn out?
Need to replace them more often than you think you should need to?
If so, replace the truck’s voltage regulator.
For a few years there Ford trucks had a problem with faulty voltage regulators.
I spent way too many dollars on new headlights that sizzled before their time.
It was the dang voltage regulator’s fault!
I replaced THAT, and never had another headlight burn out the whole rest
of the time I had the truck!
Good luck!
I was hoping the number to be countable on one hand, of course.
Never had a problem. The former owner probably replaced it.
With a Ma Deuce. Or maybe just a 240.
Count yourself lucky!
Rat Patrol
You dare question the Mod Squad?
If You're Looking For A Truck That Says 'I'm A Weird Dork' But Don't Like The Cybertruck, Buy This Instead
I'm thinking, Unimog, or VW Thing.
Finally 43 inch OD 20 inch tires are becoming available more in the USA again.
G275 Msa - 365/80r20
LOL. An HOA in a city near me told a resident he couldn't park his brand new SUV in his driveway. He told them that he had a neighbor that parked an SUV in the driveway, what was wrong with his? He was told "your neighbor has a Mercedes, you don't."
When I have the Zeppelin NATO radio shelter (my ham radio shack) on my U1300L SBU Unimog it weighs 16,000 pounds.
There are few dirt roads I can traverse in the spring with the road bans in my area and no covered bridges I can use due to weight and size, 12 feet, 9 inches tall.
Is that a Volvo Velt(Field)?
Or you could buy new instead of used...(BtD, there is a “turret” version...the “MPV”):
http://www.terradyneinc.com/civ.html
Reminds me of the “Wagon Queen Family Truckster station wagon” Chevy Chase got bamboozled into buying in the film “Vacation”...... based on a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon, it lampooned American cars of the late 1970s.
The Truckster featured a “metallic pea” green paint scheme, extensive imitation wood-paneling decals, eight headlights mounted upside-down above the stock pair, a grille area largely covered by bodywork with only two small openings close to the bumper, an oddly placed fuel filler door ..........and an airbag made from a trashcan liner.
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