What's the best car for the postapocalypse, Veeky Forums?
Has to be simple to repair, resistant to EMP, good for offroad, etc.
Pic maybe related, maybe not, I don't know much about those.
What's the best car for the postapocalypse, Veeky Forums?
Jacob Lewis
Aaron Ramirez
I guess it depends where you live
I'm in the UK and live on the outskirts of a small town near a load of fields so there's always a muddy Series 3/Defender roaming around. There's also a used car dealership that only sells Series 1, 2, and 3 Land Rovers so really finding parts shouldn't be too much trouble.
As for simplicity to repair, I can remember looking through a Haynes manual that my dad had for a Land Rover (for some reason) as a kid, so I'd just dig that out. Even then they're supposed to very idiot resistant.
Even the last of the series 3 could be started with a hand crank and as far as I'm aware used carburettors so EMPs shouldn't be too much of a problem.
As for offroad, they drove from London to Singapore in 1956 and the UK is nothing like the jungles of Malaysia or the desert of the Middle East so I shouldn't have too much of a problem
John Miller
Own a CJ-3 made in 1951, they are good reliable workhorses
They are simple to work on, can get decent milage on highway (they cannot go faster than 60km/h, at least mine cannot)
They are good on offroad and can do quite a lot for their age, though they chug loads of gas when on 4low
I live in the south american country side and drove mine from the countryside mud to the sandy beaches, and it did fine all the way
Connor Mitchell
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Luis Barnes
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Ayden Sullivan
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Cameron Clark
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Dominic Flores
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Cooper Ortiz
Anything carburated, with a points ignition, that's dirt simple to work on and not a lot of wiring. No computers.
All the essential parts on these are shielded to surpress radio waves or something so that radio equipment can be used with less interference. Most of them are also completely waterproof. The original plug cables are faaaaaat. Only thing you'd need is an extra coil for one of these (maybe) and an extra set of points to use in case you couldn't file the first set. You may need an extra voltage regulator, but maybe not, everything on these is heavy duty (for the time period and it's size) That's basically it, maybe some wire in case wirings fried.
I remember reading something that said any vehicle that wasn't running would probably start just fine, but you never know.
Luis Edwards
These are pretty much the same thing.