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I have always been fascinated with a post apocalyptic world.

 

It may yet happen, who knows....

 

What would you drive? It would have to be an old diesel. Petrol would be near impossible to find but diesel may still be available, or if not then other things could be sourced that would work in an old diesel.

 

You wouldn't want any electrics in the engine. Batteries will die eventually so you want something that will run without a decent battery, you can leave it on a hill and bump it to start.

 

Spares will no longer be available so after a decade or so cambelts will no longer be an option.

 

Clutch slaves will fail too eventually. Brakes are not important, just slow down with gears and stop on the handbrake

 

What does that leave left running? Old tractors?

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I used to think that one of the advantages of owning a car too old to have an ECU or any other fancy digital electronics is that it would be immune from the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion. But apparently, moderns might not be so vulnerable to EMP after all...

 

https://www.lifewire.com/would-your-car-survive-an-emp-attack-3903248

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It will be the Ford Model T, which is the car of the future anyway.

Magneto ignition, designed to run on Ethanol, on which it indeed runs actually better, no brakes,

hence no brake parts needed.

When Henry decided to build it en masse, he didn't know whether there will be enough petrol to fuel them,

so his idea from the onset was to design it for bio fuel and farmers to allocate part of their land to plant

distillable crops.

 

Something that keeps fascinating me in every post apocalypse film I ever saw is that the preferred conveyance

when resources are scarce for the baddies are the biggest bloody V8s ever and the goodies walking across

a landmass at least the size of Africa while carefully ignoring every bicycle or moped by the wayside.

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A Ford Falcon XB Coupe...

Wrong fuel

 

Merc 300D W123. Sure, a 240D might be more economical, but sod it. The world has ended and the five-pot warble might allow me some enjoyment.

Yes this would be my choice

 

 

XUD Berlingo with the stop solenoid removed.

Great til the cambelt snaps

 

land rovers and hiluxs

Yep. Not sure about hydraulic clutch or not though

 

Knowing my luck, my chances of being among the survivors would be zero, so if anyone thinks a scruffy, Cat C nuclear holocaust damaged Mazda could be useful, feel free :)

Depends how much fuel you leave in it

 

Volvo 740.

Even after an EMP from a nuclear blast the bastard headlights woukd still be on.

Cambelt done in 20 minutes using tights.

But where are you going to buy the new cambelt? Will the tights be given to you or will there be a fight?
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2CV or something eastern european. Mostly because they're designed to be fixed with a big hammer and fueled with the crappiest fuel imaginable. So that homebrew moonshine will work great in it.

 

Failing that, a quad bike or motorbike. Most can be started without electrotrickery and again, run on shit fuel. Plus the added durability is useful when roads are turning to shit from lack of people to maintain them.

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2CV or something eastern european. Mostly because they're designed to be fixed with a big hammer and fueled with the crappiest fuel imaginable. So that homebrew moonshine will work great in it.

 

Actually this describes an old yank much more.

Especially the 2CV is reliant on some pretty good quality essence and huile, whereas an old yank will win the Daytona 500

with four quarts (whatever that is) of Pennzoil detergent and some crew members pissing in the tank after a good night out.

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Something that keeps fascinating me in every post apocalypse film I ever saw is that the preferred conveyance

when resources are scarce for the baddies are the biggest bloody V8s ever and the goodies walking across

a landmass at least the size of Africa while carefully ignoring every bicycle or moped by the wayside.

Except The Stand (Stephen King) Frannie and Harold use pushbikes and small motorbikes

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Coprolalia correctly established in the eBay thread recently that the only things that will

survive a nuclear blast are 90s Toyotas and cockroaches.

I don't know how to tell the two apart, but he is right.

Toyotas do not make a gratifying crunch noise when stood on, nor do they exude noxious yellow ooze.
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One of these..... although I am pretty sure some meddling Gubbermint types would survive the holocaust and before doing anything constructive would immediately ban anything that I would want to drive. 

 

 

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BMC B Series diesel  FTW

 

I would put my Cowley interior in it though.....

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