Interesting RV

Not my auction, just thought some people would like to see it.

Don

This vehicle was featured on "Kings of the Road" several weeks ago, This and several other home made RV's. Very cool show.

ART

I went to look thinking - Yea, right, not his auction.

The first picture at $19,600 looked kinda steep, then I started reading the details and clicked on the pictures at the bottom.

Wow, what a beast. I wonder what it will go for.

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I have seen the thing in person... It is pretty impressive when you drive up beside it. When parked it had all its windows shuttered. It is an ideal vehicle for off road and gravel highways. The guy lives in a house that I would envy. Sorta a monster garage residence on a narrow lot. It is all steel clad and looks like a commercial buiding but is a residence. Randy

I like the "Loc Line" shower arms (8th & 9th photos)

Loc Line is on my armageddon list right after duct tape, wire ties & baling wire.

Offbreed wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@scnresearch.com:

holds 190 gal of fuel, even at 4 mpg (offroad) that's quite a ways on a tank.

(Hmmm, How many BTUs in a dollar bill, and what's the conversion to the drive train...)

I do know that when pumping gas into a vehicle the nozzle represents a power source of about a megawatt.

Figuring 10 gpm as the flow rate and gas at about $1 per gallon to get a rough estimate, I think that one dollar will purchase something like 6 Mjoules of energy.

Joules into BTU anyone?

Jim

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As a quick guess, gasoline at 100,000+ BTU/gal / $1.75/gal = 57,000+ BTU/$

1 BTU is about 1000J, so I get 60MJ/$

10 GPM of gasoline would be closer to 20MW!

Ned Simmons

Uh-oh. I shouldn't have asked. Now the tree huggers are going to try to use that to boost costs/taxes.

*That's* what it reminded me of.

Uh, "Pass".

I did recall that the proper units for a gas station nozzle were megajoules, but I had thought that it was between one and ten - hence the 6 rather than the 60 as an order of magnitude guess.

That the units are megawatts gives one considerable pause when imagining electric cars at all....

Jim

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That was my take, too. Relatively teeny tires, too... considering the axles are 17,500# each.... assuming equal load distribution... and if not, it might not even be legal for many US state DOT regs.

4WD. And *what*, pray tell, would pull you out of that mud puddle? Hook up the onboard winch and about all you would do is pull up redwood trees by the roots.

This is a 25 year old airport vehicle chassis. These things were never meant to be used on the highway. I've seen those things lumber up and down the airport where I work. I've also seen them do "off road" practice with them. Top heavy? You bet. I can only imagine that if thing will go 55MPH it will be taching about 10,000 RPM.

And butt ugly. Looks like a dumpster on wheels.

It appears, to me, to be about as practical as a lot of vehicles created on "Monster Garage."

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to have it... just not enough to make the minimum... by a long shot.

Oh, yeah... it has a "Buy It Now" price at :

Wanna bet the auction is "ended early?"

Whoa, that's one damn heavy 4WD. Back when I surf-fished a lot, my dream vehicle was an aluminum bodied stepvan set up on a 3/4 ton 4WD chassis with fat tires, bunks, and window screens. Oh yeah, and about

50 gal. of fresh water to feed a telephone shower by the back door to rinse off the salt and sand before climbing in. Side awning, banana loungers, and beer cooler.

Dang, that makes me want to move back to Texas.

Pete Keillor

That was my first impression too. But when I saw the window shutters,

360 degree video surveillance, and 35Klbs weight, I had to ask, "How big is the main gun and why don't they have these in Iraq?