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on: 05-02-2005
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Take a standard 2.5 ton amy truck, and put a boat body on it, and you get this, the DUKW or "Duck" a cargo truck that floats |
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5-02-2005 @ 09:12:07 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Powered by a GMC-built 6cyl gas engine, and surprisingly sea-worthy, the DUKW saw service in WWII and stayed in service until Korea when it's job was taken over by helicopters and heavy-cargo planes
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5-02-2005 @ 09:47:52 PM |
| Posted By : thirtyseven |
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I grew up in Chicago, and when I was five or so the family took a suumer vacation to the Wisconsin Dells, where I got to drive one of these in the water! I even got a little "DUCK driver's license" that I still have to this day :)
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5-03-2005 @ 02:17:36 AM |
| Posted By : ambientFLIER |
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somebody has been watching "trucks" with stacey, huh?
edit: 6-cyl gas engine? why not a diesel in a military truck?
[Edited by ambientFLIER on 5-03-2005 @ 02:18:47 AM]
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5-03-2005 @ 03:15:50 AM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#5, Diesel is harder to refine IIRC. Germans had BIG trouble because their tanks ran on diesel fuel. This is also why big off-road Russian trucks have gasoline engines.
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5-03-2005 @ 11:54:34 AM |
| Posted By : ambientFLIER |
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#6, yeah but doesnt that mean that they are gutless (no torque)? i know gears can compensate somewhat, but still
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5-03-2005 @ 05:45:48 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#6, It's the other way around, gas is harder to refine than diesel, diesel is a lot more "oily" and thicker than gas, and a diesel motor, with enough compression, can run on stuff a gas motor would NEVER survive on like kerosene
ANd yes, I did see Stacy talk about these on his show, but I"ve known about them for years, they're essential the same chassis our deuce' is built on
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5-04-2005 @ 11:42:59 AM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#7, Well... Russians use big-ass gasoline V8 and V12 o_O engines for the trucks/military vehicles. I guess they don't suffer from lack of torque.
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5-04-2005 @ 11:45:34 AM |
| Posted By : thirtyseven |
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#10, Except Czech Tatras, they run air-cooled diesel V8s and V12s, sometimes with forced induction.
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5-04-2005 @ 12:01:03 PM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#11, Hey, I'm from Poland so I know Tatra trucks. I don't know, though, what is more amazing: the air-cooled engines, the locking diffs or the unique suspension.
When unloaded it looks like this: --/
When loaded: [--] or /--
o_O
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