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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 6, 2013 18:34:43 GMT 12
On Monday on the way back from Auclkland I spotted from the Motorway two of those big Army tan coloured Mercedes flatbed lorries down below the overbridge we were on, on a sideroad, each with a vehicle on the back. The vehicles were tan and from the quick glimpse I saw they each seemed to have six wheels, no roof, and were quite wide and very big vehicles. They looked reminiscent of the WWII German Horsch transports but also had a modern look to them. Actually they looked a bit like the WWII German halftracks but with six big wheels and no tracks.
Any ideas?
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Post by htbrst on Feb 6, 2013 18:40:50 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 6, 2013 18:47:03 GMT 12
No, I am pretty sure they weren't. There was no roof and the sides came down more with round wheel arches, from memory. I would have recognised Pinzgauers, I'm sure. These were different.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 6, 2013 18:47:52 GMT 12
Also they had a skicky-out nose, not flat like this. As I said, much like a Horsch.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 6, 2013 18:50:21 GMT 12
Maybe they were secret squirrel SAS vehicles.
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Post by phil on Feb 6, 2013 19:29:42 GMT 12
They were the Pinzgauers the SAS use. img38.imageshack.us/img38/7397/kiwi01.jpgThat's my photo in post 2! It was taken in the hills above Upper Hutt the day the Army formally took delivery of the fleet. I remember being up their in my SDs after all the formalities, and slipping over on the slimy clay (luckily I wasn't actually wearing the Jacket). Was a bugger because I then had to go to Command and Staff College for a second job... |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 6, 2013 19:49:28 GMT 12
Aha, yes, that looks much more like it. Thanks Phil. It was only a very quick glimpse i saw but now seeing that photo I'm sure that's them. They look so cool in the SAS configuration. Very LRDG looking.
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Post by ngatimozart on Feb 6, 2013 19:57:02 GMT 12
they got room on those for at least another .50 cal. ;D They harken back a bit to the old LRDG days a bit don't they?
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Post by suthg on Feb 6, 2013 20:58:19 GMT 12
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the gun on top - is that barrel thicker and larger than a 50 cal? And is that a 125 or 150cc motorbike on the back? - of the imageshack shot posted by phil...
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Post by themantis on Feb 7, 2013 6:48:00 GMT 12
That's a 40mm grenade machine gun and I think the motorbike is a 400 or 450cc KTM.
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