Ambulance as a Bug Out Vehicle?

What it is like to drive this beast.
Ours had sat in the surplus yard for 5 Years. First time out made a believer of you about a NEW driving style and how much road space you needed.
Watch the Youtube. <not my Youtube>

 

If you buy make sure you have a tow vehicle handy as well as a complete set of tools on the truck and a Air Compressor. That's just for the ride home. It took me 2 months to sort out the "NEW" air brakes.

 

$18.5 out the door.

New Fiberglass Top (Removable)
- Recovered Seats (Driver Seat Spring Ride)
- Electrical- Checked out completely
- LDT 465 Turbo Charged Engine, Low Mileage,
Checked out and Serviced
- 5 Speed Overdrive Transmission- Serviced
- Air Shift Front Engage Transfer Case- Serviced
- Air Over Hydraulic Brakes- Serviced
- 4 New Custom 20X11 Wheels (Not Surplus)
- 4 High Tread 14.00R20 Goodyear/Michelin
Tires or 395/85R20 Michelin Tires
- Cooling System Serviced w/ New Hoses/Belts
- Fresh Industrial Paint (1 Color)
- Fully Serviced
- Good Clear Window Glass
- Operating Windshield Wipers
- 2 New Group 34 Batteries
- West Coast Mirrors
- Shortened or Lengthened to Customer Specs
- M105 Trailer Bed (Installed)

 

Ouch! I remember clinging to the wall railing at Kuwae Hospital, making maybe 12" a minute toward the emergency room after tearing up my back working on tires like this. I did this kind of work for a year with Tomatsu Tire Co in Okinawa, Japan.

If you get a flat in a big truck you call road service. When there is no road service you are in a fix.

M923 super single tire change - Yahoo Video Search Results

 

When my father in law retired he and his wife traveled the country helping out church camps. when they first started out they used a pick up truck and camper and a 14' camping trailer .
It served them several years till they were talked into several other means of traveling the country .
20 years later they went back to the original set up with a pick up truck and camper and a camping trailer .
a small camping trailer can be hauled by almost any other vehicle if something happens to the original tow vehicle. fifth wheels are a pain and can only be hauled with one ton or better preferably a dulley .
Think about being stuck some where and how help is going to work out because you may be the only one you can depend on post SHTF .
I've held on to my 1967 3/4 ton cheve . no computer and standard ign .An EMP probably will not phase it .
I have a small camper on it and my shop trailer roughly 4 ton , and have hauled it hundreds of miles .
For that truck I have spare fuel pump, water pump , alternator, wheel bearings, hoses and so forth , 2 spare tires for each vessel .
I have hauled that trailer places you would not take a car with that truck and vintage parts are still available .
point is , to me this set up is more versatile than military anything in the long run .
Pick a truck you can work on , NOT say to your self you can do it, but you actually do it , and critical stuff= engine rebuilding and so forth.
If this is your primary bug out vehicle, pretty is not as important as function .
By the way my shop trailer has my battery bank solar panels and wind mill on it.
Those currently power the trailer an my home .

 

I think we have enough of those. My vote is no.

A wind mill. I am very interested in this. Size and what you are able to power from it etc.... Free power is good. Any details you could share would be appreciated.
(new thread on windmills on vehicles?)

 

Anarchists and anyone pissed off about lack of response from emergency services might go out of their way to attack your vehicle.

That’s the big drawback I see.

This thread reminds me of the movie Cannonball Run from the ‘80s.

 

Ive seen some pretty cool horse truck conversions, suspect the mpg is crap but might be worth looking into.

 

What is a horse truck? I have seen horse trailers but those are narrow and open

 

JMHO here,I'm looking to get a popup camper with a mid size pickup. A 10' closed has a low profile can be towed easy on most roads. Higher end models are off-road capable but cost more. Used campers can be found for cheap with a bit of searching.

 

Still looking for a 300TD.

 

like this


although if you have gobs of money to throw around theres this one....


Although I like this one
(Link to article with all the cool inside pix This Horse Truck Was Completely Transformed Into a Stunning Tiny Home - Horse Box Renovated Into a Home )

 

But no matter what you do, every time it rains it smells like damp hay and manure...

 

Years ago the FEC railroad had windmills on their cabooses. I guess it doesn't make much difference on a freight train.