For Sale: ultimate VW off road machine!

[Petros]

check this out, the ultimate off road VW, actually a VW van mounted on an old Studebaker "Weasel".

http://www.vehicle-liquidation.com/show ... ts_id=1159

[ARCHINSTL]

I like the wooden block at the back of the track...as if this thing has so little friction in the tracks that it would roll away!
Weasel Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M29_Weasel There are also various Youtube videos when Googling.
Tom M.

[takza]

So why would the arctic variant be painted orange? Target practice for the German's?

[dlb]

a whopping 5 miles/gallon! i like the amphibious version of the weasel, that's pretty neat.

[ARCHINSTL]

So why would the arctic variant be painted orange? Target practice for the German's?

Maybe the snow up thataway is sometimes orange? Kinda like yellow snow around here?
Maybe that's the effect that eating all of that sauerkraut and knackwurst and black bread had on the Germans?
Tom M.

[Petros]

Painting it Orange was for civilian use in the arctic, it made it easier to recover the bodies when searching by air when they failed to return.