From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 08:09:53 PDT
At 7:39 AM -0700 8/7/02, J. Lee wrote:
>Ryan, I would say that a deuce might climb up a Ferret fender, but flatten
>one of these hunks of steel? Nah... I don't think so. As to the deuce
The fenders (Wings if you please) and stowage bins would be worse for
wear, but the Deuce wouldn't really do much damage to the armored
bits. It may bend a few bits or knock the turret off though. More
likely it'd just go up and over.
>
>PS And never race a Ferret, least not in reverse.... he got 5 gears going
>backwards! lol
Unless you're in another Daimler vehicle with a Wilson Preselector
Epicylcic gear box (say that fast 5 times). At re-enacting events I
have fun driving the Dingo backwards for people.
Zip down a road, preselect 1st, *Oooh...look! Germans!* nail
the brakes hard (they're already holding on for dear life). Once
really stopped (wheels turning when changing the transfer-box
direction BAD!) stomp down on the gear change pedal, throw the
transfer-box lever backwards and release the gear change pedal. Now
we can drive backwards, stomp the gas, look over my left shoulder
(its a right hand drive with the driver canted slightly left by about
15-20 degrees so reversing is easy) and start off backwards. Work up
through the gears as needed.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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