Why the snowplow driver didn't get to the snowplow

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

That would be sweet if you picked one up Drew!  The Bombardier version
has, in my opinion, a few upgrades i wouldn't mind having.  (mainly the
wiring...breakers instead of the old school mk1 style ceramic fuses like I
have).

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

Drew MacPherson said:
>
> Yes, the Canadian Armed Forces has finally comitted to replacing the
> Iltis, so I'm hoping to pick one up surplus.  We see them fairly regularly
> here as we're about 30 miles from CFB Meaford military training centre
> (known in these parts as the tank range.
>
> My winter beater Jetta fairs much better as it's got some lift to it and
> rides on 165/85 r13s, but unfortunately it's back on the operating table
> after an unusccessful organ transplant.
>
> I fear that even an Iltis would have been up the creek in this stuff
> though, as even my 4wd loader tractor was bogged when I was clearing a
> path for the Scirocco after I shovelled it out.  The wind piles the snow
> on to the point that you can walk on the snow, and then you need tracks
> (or a snow blower) to get through it.
>
> Drew
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Eric S wrote:
>
>>
>> Time for an Iltis Drew.
>>
>> Last year we had a storm that dropped nearly 4 feet in two days on
>> denver.
>>  My Iltis was the only thing mobile in my neighborhood till the plows
>> came
>> through...and even then, I only saw a couple of Jeeps and a 4x4 Toyota
>> that were managing to get around ok.   The Iltis was unstoppable.
>>
>>
>
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