Strange Vehicles.

I want this one too.
Like a Dodge Command has mated with a Steyr Kommandeurwagen and produced a strangely attractive offspring.

'course, that might just be me...

 

Just watching Storm Chasers on five.
Have a google on "tornado intercept vehicle"
Bizzarre.

 

English Russia » Half Tank

 

Odd use for an old Ferret:

Channel4.com - FMC - The Bodysnatchers

 

Firefighting vehicle using 2 Jet Turbines mounted on an old T34(?) :
YouTube - Invention: fire fighting turbine

 

Pretty strange, (with apologies for the music) :
YouTube - Archer - FH77BW L52

 

That post van is a delight, I love the idea of a Morris 30 being somehow part of an exclusive express service by virtue of some bodywork, a fin, and blue (?) paint .

Monstrous Russki truckage:



Dark Roasted Blend: Soviet Army Super Vehicles

 

Strange things that turn up while looking for armoured trikes & combos:

Mildly worrying:

But it's OK, they're "used by experts"...


Fancy a Snowjob?




Both from:
The new Cafe (racer) Society: May 2008
(With the warning that it's one of those massive blog pages that take forever to load... some good links though)

 

English Russia » Russian Mobile Nuclear Power Plants





Not many know, but Russian engineers have constructed the mobile nuclear power plants that were sucessfully used in distant parts of Russia. Those were small sized self moving fully functional atomic power plants with a small reactor inside. Just imagine, small nuclear power plants that could reach the destination points by themselves.
There were two basic models - tracked and on regular wheels.

 

Many shiny cars running on railway tracks as inspection vehicles here:
Old Time Trains

 

I'd never heard of 'Belly Tankers':
Belly Tank Salt Flat Racers
Racing cars built from war surplus aircraft fuel tanks.