If an EMP takes us out, a disabled car will be the least of your problems.
Where do you think you are going to drive on roads clogged by failed vehicles, controlled by “Homeland Security”, FEMA the military, and all other security agencies state and local to allow emergency access vehicles only
You think you’ll have access to state and federal highways and bridges when using them becomes a privilege for the few and the “essential” deemed necessary by the government?
and backcountry roads surveilled by desperate lawless bands looking to hijack anything that moves?
I believe it may fry the condenser
Common sense tells me no man made EMP can be as powerful as a jolt of lightning and yet most everything continues to function just fine. Heck even commercial airplanes get hit by lightning regularly and continue on without incident. That EMP fired from a satellite can take down an entire city — is pure science fiction.
Find out if it has a computer, my guess is it does being an ‘87? How are you going to get your gasoline?
Get a Horse or an extra pair of walking shoes and a Bicycle.
Watch this movie “Day After Armageddon”
You’ll be looking into having good hiking boots, maps, mobile water purification, and antibiotics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U29JW3hGIs
EMP is vastly over rated for cars. Every lightning strike is a small localized EMP. I have never heard of a nearby lightning taking out a car. TVs, radios, computers yes. Cars no.
Your spark plugs radiate EMP, so cars have protection built in.
From what I’ve read, the vast majority of damage will be line of sight and travels like FM radio waves and happen instantly. Also, the further away the source is the less concentrated the energy is because it goes in all directions similar to the Sun’s energy.
There are other forms of energy transmitted and I can’t remember all of the details. There is a lot of information out there to research.
lol where do you think you’re driving? Plus everyone will make you their #1 robbery target. lol
Keep spare parts around.
To put it mildly, an EMP strike “neutralizes” the flow of electrons in anything that needs a flow of electrons to operate.
Your car battery will be neutralized. Your starter will be neutralized. Any and all electronics in any car will be neutralized. Motorcycles with kickstarters won’t work, the magneto will be zapped.
Anything and everything electronic, unless stored in a Farraday cage, or built to milspec stqandards regarding EMP’s, will not work, to include anything flying in the air.
(Look out below!)
The world will be flung back to the 1700’s in a second.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. That includes everybody’s little laser sight on their personal defense weapons, too.
Just turn your garage into a Faraday cage, then any vehicles parked there will be safe from an EMP.
Ha, are you ready to defend this vehicle?
Well, if it is true that unshielded electric components get fried, steam vehicles will still work. Jay Leno sure will be getting a lot of use out of his Stanley Steamers, Whites and Dobles.
Jesus. I am stunned at the level of ignorance already on this thread.
Just get an old 2 stoke dirt bike and keep a 55 gallon can of gasoline in your underground bunker and enough ammunition to keep the zombies at bay.
I have heard that the correct cut-off is a car in the mid-1950s, and that after that it won’t work.
I know Bill, who wrote “One Second After.” I’ve texted him and asked for updates and confirmations of some things, but as Bill often does, he hasn’t responded and will go months without surfacing.
Being the one of the few people in the area driving will just draw gunfire. Where are you going? It’s going to be the same everywhere, chaos and nothing that works.
The operative idea is home survival prep and shelter in place.
I too read Forschen’s novel. Found it quite sobering.
I don’t see any responses addressing the vulnerability of that particular model truck.
The strength of the EMP would have a bearing on the results obviously. So would your circumstances. Location etc.
Some responses seem overly negative.
Reminds me of the futility of only having a , say, 22 against an organized military.
We might have to improvise and do the best we can with what we have. Some preparation is better than none!