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My daughter is out offroading with her boy friend and just called me. They are near a test site in Yerington and there are a bunch of new Pinzgauers out there. She said they look just like mine but with "an ugly nose".
Greg

Chapel, They made up 200 armour catches for the new pinz here in Wichita i was told that it was for a us order

Did they get pictures :?:

They are going out again tomorrow to get some pics.
greg

It can get pretty dicey taking pictures around some of those Nevada testing ranges. Be careful!

Mike,
You're correct about being cautious.

Being a stupid American, I made the ignorant mistake of photographing a police station in Northern Ireland once. It was so outlandish, I thought no one would believe my description without a picture.

I was led, at gunpoint, into the same police station, questioned at length, and advised to take no more photos of police stations, lest my camera not be the only thing they kept. When I was led out, there were twice as many men with their rifles on me. It's sobering.

They were concerned about their security measures being known. I assume the U.S. would be at least as touchy, lately.

It does strike me as ironic - Here Wisconsin is trying to ban Pinzgauers from U.S. roads because they're non-roadworthy, while the U.S. government is out buying new ones!! Where do I enlist??

MFC, everybody. I hope Santa treats you well.....

Paul

ouch, scary, they were sensitive times.

The precautions that the military took throughout GB in those days was patchy. While walking with my wife in Snowdonia North Wales close to a low key military establishment we were accepted by the civilian police wanting to know what we were doing and why. I aid that this is a national park isn't that what one is supposed to do here. I told him that my LR101FC had been parked up for camping for two days and no body took any notice, he just went away and laughed saying there very jumpy.

On another occasion in a in South Wales we were offloading near to some military ranges, there are public roads going through them and they close them occasionaly and put up red flags and notices. If you are familiar with the area you notice that they put up the flags but often forget to take them down so poeple some times do as they like. While looking for a track an other 101 went past on the inside of us but off road so we went after him. He looked the part all in Khaki and sporting a corporals mustache. He was not put out by our presence and at first did not realise that we were civvies. For better information he directed us to Sennybridge Military Training Camp Near to Brecon suggesting we talk to Major Fe--l Blah blah. On the way to the camp we became entangled with a long military convoy of Bedford trucks an 101 and other bits of kit. When we came to the gate with an armed guard we pulled over an let the remainder of the convoy pass through. Some sargent wearing an even bigger mustache went absolutely berserk that we stopped and started gesticulating and swearing at us to get f---ing well in and as his face turned puce his mustache became very animated. So we went in and parked up near some other military vehicles. Jo got out to ask the sarge directions to see this Major. Well, he nearly had a heat attack and his demeanor changed completely he was very very uncomfortable. My wife knew how to handle military folk, her dad was once a senior army officer, so she kept him on the defensive as we did not want to get kicked off the base. He arranged an escort for my wife to visit the major who was very helpful. He gave us very large scale maps of the whole of the firing ranges. It showed where everything went on and all of that sort of thing.

At this time Northern Ireland was going through a very bad patch and security was supposed to be at its highest, any one could have been driving our truck, OK, it was painted in camo but it had no convoy markings or Even military registration marks.

This was just one of the many interesting encounters that we had with the Army and Marines from time to time. Even an air force helicopter landed some 25m away from us on one occasion. We were very nearly involved in a scuffle with one chap from what turned out to be a special forces unit who forced the rear door of our 101 open while we were inside, in the middle of the night in a very remote part of Wales.

Hopefully these will work.





Greg

The wheels are interesting. What's the exhaust stack on the right side for? Does it look like there might be a roof hatch on it, or is it just me wanting one on my Pinz? Nice pics.

Andy

exhaust stack on the right side for?

That's the engine air intake!.....All 716/718's have the intake grille on the side, but that "cyclone type" arrangement is a factory option!

Nice pics Greg!
.....can you get some without the wire fencing?

The wheels are Split Rim and the tyres wider and off set more. To allow for this the rubbing rail down the side is wider.

Anthony, I guess I'm not very observant, I hadn't noticed the wider rub rail. Thanks Peter, I just thought the air came through the grill. An intake that high should help with fording depth.

Andy

a couple of the biggest things I can see with the air intake in that location is the reduced dust and the mist that is created when driving on muddy wet roads. These two things have caused me to replace far too many air filters. One draw back would be hitting on trees and rocks when offroad. All things considered still would be fun to take out and try it offroad.

I like the wheels. They look like they have the same bolt pattern as ours, the logo in the front looks like the new one and the rub rails looked like they are made of plastic. We were there on Sunday and didn't see anyone around, should have climbed the fence, darn it.
Greg

The wider rub rails was standard for all 716/18s , since their beginning. This is because of the wider axle stance for the TD models, and the wider rail was the easiest way to make the Pinz road legal in Europe ( tires cannot extend beyond the body..... US has a similar law, but people ignore, for the mostpart). The rims are Hutchinson beadlock, common on a lot of Military Pinzes, and G Wagons ( pics were floating around of a bunch of Canadian "G's" with these rims a few years back). Also the lug pattern is not the same as the gas Pinzes
As Peter said, thecyclone air cleaner is a option for the TDs, but also usually has a guard around them. If you look around the web, you can find pics of this same type cleaner on 710/12s, and Haffies ( mounted in the center of the front body, looking lke a rhino's horn).

What surprised me most about the 1st pic, it appears to be Duros in the background! I hadn't heard or seen much on them in the last few years.

Dave Dunn