4WD an overkill??

[Plane Fixer]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nq2jY1trxqg'rel=0

[mikeford]

It may not be 4 wheel drive but it has a solid drive to both rear wheels, locked diff just like a go cart . The locked diff works well in those conditions but if there were any sealed roads eg. bitumen there would be problems.

[~Rich~]

Says something about skinny tyres in mud!
Getting down to the base.

[AnD3rew]

We have had that on here before, yes very impressive. Skinny tyres, firm base. They did have a diff, an open diff at that.

[roverrescue]

Skinny tyres yes but also that thing weighs 2245lb.

For the same reason a 200series or D3/4 sucks in mud a 1920s dodge and series 1 will rule... that old dodge would likely out do a D4 in one wheel drive purely because weight like speed follows a close to inverse square rule!

A vehicle twice the mass needs much much more than twice the flotation and horsepower. Get to lard arse proportions like D3/4 and 200 series and you need a million horsepower and 425/85R22 to even come close to competing to one tonne and skinny with rear wheel drive

Weight is always the enemy

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[Meken]

425/85/r22 - they look the goods in a mt pattern ;)

[Plane Fixer]

Yes skinny tyres certainly did the trick but a kidney belt would have been needed as the ride on cart springs was bouncy to say the least.
My grandfather toured the outback and into the Kimberly in a Willys Overland ute in the 50s. He also climbed Ayres Rock before the chain was put there.
They were a different breed in those days!

[Meccles]

My dad drove an old Austin from Tenant Creek to Darwin, then down to Perth in late 40's early 50's. And he what he knew about cars/mechanical items you could fit on a postage stamp. Didn't seem to phase them and I know he had no sat phone, recovery kit, etc etc. They just went and did it.

[CSBrisie]

My grandfather toured the outback and into the Kimberly in a Willys Overland ute in the 50s. He also climbed Ayres Rock before the chain was put there.
They were a different breed in those days!


Yikes. I climbed Uluru last year - with the chain - and was seriously worried and clinging to it both ways :(. Without it? No way! Maybe at age 18 I guess but not 40 something or more!! :p