welcome to wacky Wednesday's, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner, today I'm right here right now, arguing
why this huge behemoth is the best way to go in case of a zombie apocalypse
it was a product of the kaiser-jeep corporation back from the 60s all the
way up until the early 80s when they produce these, they call them Deuce and a
halves because off-road they can carry 2.5 tons, hence the name deuce and a half
this particular one is a 1968 and they were used as troop carriers and
equipment carriers to basically take things to the battlefield that they
needed, and as you can see by these 46 inch tires, that was most often off-road
instead of on road, now in terms of space this thing has a 14 foot long bed and a
17 foot wide bed, so essentially any type of guns any type of zombie repellents
you could possibly think of this thing will carry, but let's say that you're
pretty empathetic and you want to carry survivors, well as I mentioned earlier
this thing was used as a troop carrier, so it has fold down sides that about
nine people can fit across and on the other side to carry about 18 people in the
back, in Georgia where I'm from you can ride on roads legally in this thing, so
the next time at Thanksgiving when your step mom talks about her new Honda
Odyssey with its eight passengers, you might want to show her this, but enough
about the exterior, let's talk about the interior a little bit, so firstly you'll
notice that this is a 50 year old military truck, you're probably not going to
have a shortage of rattles, squeaks or loud noises, but there are a couple of pretty cool
things in here that most people's cars won't have, first thing is that there are
pretty much no electronics that can go wrong in this, if there's ever a flood, if
you've ever hit something really hard, there's not going to be a lot of stuff that
you have to worry about in terms of wires coming loose, your radio not
working, or anything like that, everything is really basic and there's a lot of
metal around here, the two things in particular that's pretty cool
are first off, there is actually an onboard air compressor built into this to
assist with the brakes and with a lot of the other functions including the
windshield wipers funnily enough, there's actually a port underneath the dash to
plug in an air tool if you need to that runs off the onboard air compressor
another cool thing about this interior that might be my favorite is the push
button start, that's right this 50 year old military truck has push-button start
how it works, essentially there's a red button right down here and neatly
enough it says start, you push fuel back to the engine, because this lash makes
sure that there's no fuel going to the engine that's how you cut it off, this is
the switch to turn on accessory power to the fuel pump and everything, and then
after you do that, just push the button start it right up
but I know what you're thinking though, we talked about the bed, we've talked
about the drab interior, well lets talk about the off-road functioning of this
truck real quick, first off probably one of the coolest things is the snorkel
this is an extended snorkel most Deuce and a halves have their snorkel end
right here, but the guy I bought it from had an extender on it to make it about
ah I'd say maybe seven feet tall, to where up until this point water can
safely go up to the truck, so you'll see all kinds of people on YouTube running
this thing kind of like a boat actually through creeks through rivers and it's
totally safe because like I said this is the air intake for the engine the oil
dipstick screws on watertight, so up until at this point you can use this
thing as a boat, it also has a two-speed transfer case, the low gear is obviously
for off-roading and for towing a heavy load, and then it also has a high gear
obviously for normal driving conditions, another awesome off-roading feature is
the winch, not every deuce and a half had one, but mine does so if I ever get this
thing stuck, I'll be able to get unstuck pretty quickly, I can hear you say yeah
this is cool and all, but why don't I just get a Silverado with a 12-inch lift
and an aftermarket snorkel like that, and at least have air conditioning, a soft
ride, basically any type of modern creature comfort in cars, but I have an
answer, 3 specifically which are the best reasons why you should get a deuce for
an off-road vehicle, in a zombie apocalypse situation, the first thing is
price, now let's break down what it would actually cost to get a silverado, most
nice little Silverados that you would get with working AC, a nice suspension with a
12-inch lift, aftermarket snorkel, would probably hover $10,000 or above
the price of a 12-inch lift is going to be pretty expensive, probably above
$5,000, so already just with a good silverado and 12 inch lift you're
already looking at about 12,000 dollars worth of modifications and we haven't
even touched the snorkel yet, yeah you guys have fun paying almost
$17,000 for a truck like this, we have one on sale on Craigslist in Atlanta for
$7,500, we have another one right here for $6,000, you can really find these all
the time under 8 grand, once you buy one of these things for you know six to
eight thousand dollars, the cost to insure this thing is insanely cheap, I'm
a 24 year old male and my driving record isn't as clean as it probably should be
but I can still insure this thing as a secondary vehicle with the restriction
of five thousand miles a year for $30 a month as an antique, you're probably not
going to find that with the Silverado, also I have to mention one other cool
thing about this, which is that it doesn't require any special license to drive, I
picked this thing up with a normal license, no commercial license, no class a license
nothing I just bought this thing and registered it as a normal street vehicle
like any other Honda Civic, but now it's time for the last thing that is probably
the best on this truck, totally disregarding how dirty the engine is
it's been off roaded quite a bit, the engine in this actually isn't your
average engine, this is a multi fuel engine that can run on pretty much
anything, just as an example I pulled up the technical service manual for a Deuce
and a half that they released, and as you can see it has several other fuels
besides diesel fuel, so we have obviously diesel fuel but we also have marine fuel
oil, which is basically highly filtered motor oil, so in the case of the zombie
apocolypse just go to the side of the road, drain use motor oil out of a car
and filter it and throw it in the gas tank, it can also run on gasoline as well
if you want a zombie apocalypse vehicle do you want a normal Chevy that can run
on gas and you have to go to a gas station or go to a diesel station or do
you want something that you can just go to a random car on the side of the road
drain the oil and run it in this thing, well that was this week's video and to
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