You’ve Got My Vehicle!
So you’ve got the accuracy-while-moving down pat with your wrist crossbow, the most important question still lingers – what will you be driving around in while you move from town-to-town skimming the convenience-store shelves for that last can of chick peas?
It is a question we Raiders often discuss and just recently my father-in-law forwarded me an online article from WIRED magazine answering this very question.
Here’s the list they came up with:
1. Toyota FJ40
2. Unimog
3. Ural Patrol (Motorcycle)
4. VW’s Concept T
5. ATF Dingo
6. A Unicycle
7. Jeep CJ
8. The Interceptor
9. Stryker
10. Volkswagen Beetle
Now as a fella who has owned a CJ Jeep (1982 – CJ5), a Land Cruiser (my fav: FJ-60), tried to convert a 68 Mustang into the Interceptor (good Lord, if I got a nickel for every bad idea . . .), and is currently learning how to “ride” a unicycle (background for a short story – long story), I think I can add a few comments here:
1) Motorcycle should be a Rokon – these things are unstoppable, also 2-wheel drive, have a side car option, have enough torque to drag a fallen tree out of a road, and also have an optional mount for the back of your truck – so you can have a “back-up” vehicle when your Ford Expedition craps out.
2) VW – I like the idea of mod’ing out a dune buggy into a poor man’s version of the Navy SEAL “Doom Buggy”
3) Whatever you end up using, you’ll need to modify it with versatile “big tanks” to hold all of the extra gas you’ll need to make it through the Wasteland.
Although I am a subscriber to Wired magazine, I am notoriously behind on my reading, so I hadn’t the article before he sent it over.
I hope to see that this made it to print in the June issue – maybe sometime around September.