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The first one looks like the mongrel offspring of a Mercedes-Benz GLK and a Vietnam-era GamaGoat truck...

Congratulations Paul!!

Indeed, the racks will accomodate a number of rifles and shotguns to varying degrees but were specifically designed for the Swiss infantry rifles of the day, particularly the StG57 (PE57) and K31 Schmidt-Rubin. These rifles weren't replaced until the 1990's with the StG90 (SIG550 series). Knowing h...

totaljoint wrote:I'm going to have the Austrailian army show my wife how to put on makeup.

LMAO!!!

totaljoint wrote:The Russians seem to like to modify/pimp out various military vehicles. There are some Russian web sites showing amazing things with Pinzgauers, but see what they did with an APC:

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/pimpe ... style.html

That's one cool ride...

Your new top looks great! It reminds me that I have still not posted pictures of the top Ray produced for my 710 already a year ago... there is always something missing on my truck to allow for good pictures (tires first, now wood rails...) :oops: Ray is a great guy to deal with and his production i...

Andre wrote:Did you read the info on the truck? ford 3.0 motor. the body mod was to house the radiator.

Definately sacralige with the mercedes emblem.

Looks like a Mogzgauer with the mercedes emblem...

Jan

The plane/boat on the second pic is an Ekranoplan...

I guess the only things I regret about the Soviet Union are some of the crazy vehicles they designed...

Jan

There are a few pics of the setup on this german website:

http://www.allrad-lippe-404tg.de/galerie15.html

...and the full kit is available with SAV (#7102283300).

Jan

There were already quite a bunch of AMPs that were closed. I googled a bit further and found that between 2001 and 2010, the army logistics have been trimmed by between 2 thirds and 3 quarters...! Not all Pinzes went through AMP Bronschhofen, as there were a lot of them depots accross the country (d...

Hi all, From what I could read about the translation (thanks for this btw, my german is more than rusty), I think the local politician's concerns are justified. Not that they are better than anywhere else in the world, but they face the same kind of concern than most small communities that host &quo...

The other day, I was watching Pinz offroad videos on youtube (including some Florida-style mud splashing, courtesy of Russ :wink: ), and in the comments of one of the videos a guy from Asia was saying that there had been rumours that the production of Haflingers could be started again in Malaysia or...

krick3tt wrote:Peresh,

I mounted it inside to get it out of the weather and to make the winch a bit more aerodynamic.

Good one, Morris


Jan

Pols497 wrote:No red death but 9 paper towels, 2 rocks, aluminum foil, a handful of leaves and a candy wrapper that was not from Oklahoma

Swiss soldiers can do pretty stupid things to keep boredom at bay and make time pass faster...

Jan

this morning was a little frosty outside so i started the 710k up and ran the heater behind the drivers seat the cab heated up nice! then the roof got really wet and it started to rain inside the truck! how did the military deal with this if they had sensitive radio equipment? They kept guys inside...