THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

Just ran across these. Pretty cool.

Trekol Trophy: http://www.trecol.ru/catalog/cars/trekol-trofi.html

More info on them here: http://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/31/puti ... ssian-6x6/

Perhaps our current pres. can get 'em okayed for import??

Looks like a seriously lifted VW bus

But take all that lift then put on puny Axles a wimpy Diff and non-portal don't look real well balanced IMHO.
I'd take a Mog 1300 over this rig hands down.

rmel wrote:Looks like a seriously lifted VW bus

Not a VW, but the ubiquitous (in Russia) UAZ-452, produced since 1965.

The "VW bus" look is uncanny -- Eh!

A lot of these RU trucks seem heavily rigged for deep Mud
crawling than a general trail situation.

Lots of pig farms? Lots of peat moss swamps? What's up in
the Motherland anyhow??

Russia is mostly flat and humid, so they boast 1.8 million (444 million acres) square kilometers of wetlands / peatlands (straight from my google search: http://russia.wetlands.org/Home/Wetland ... fault.aspx).

So lots of room for big-tired toys. Not counting the fact that when everything (not just wetlands) is covered in snow and ice in winter, big tires allowing to "float" on top of the surface is a good way to get around off-road.

https://youtu.be/fr7hVQ-yrJI
I suspect it is more likely they copied this Commer (UK Chrysler) van, when they styled the UAZ 452 as well as my Pinz and Mog I also have a UAZ 469b......see the you tube vids, not complicated and suprisingly good off road, usually compared with 1970's Jeeps because it was designed from the outset not as a load carrier, but as a people carrier. The chassis is very small compared to say a comparable Landrover .https://youtu.be/A4SrPAc-oKs