Surrender to Canada – the Iltis and the M38-CDN

Posted by Daniel Strohl on March 8, 2007 under March Military Campaign, military vehicles, snowmobiles, trucks and Jeeps | Comments are off for this article

Better believe it – them Canucks aren’t as innocent as they seem. First, they build the awesomest four-wheeled military conveyance this side of the Unimog, the CMP, and now we see even more Canadian military kung fu.

Kit Foster sent along two additions to our military March campaign. First, above, the Iltis, a Volkswagen design built in the late 1970s and early 1980s and mainly supplied to European NATO countries, though Kit said that Bombardier, maker of Ski-Doos and the recent Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler, assembled the Canadian version of the Iltis, pictured above.

Second, a Canadian jeep, assembled in 1952 not by Willys, but by Ford of Canada – the second time in history that Ford assembled Willys-designed jeeps.

I think all this attention paid to the Mexican border protection is crap. We should be watching that thar northern border. I say we invade now.

Patins of Death, mais oui!

Posted by David Traver Adolphus on March 2, 2007 under hot rods and customs, racing, snowmobiles, vintage racing | Comments are off for this article

Alright, all you people who actually remember their high-school French, we’re looking for an explanation of this little tidbit from the VAQ’s magazine. The principle is simple enough: Sharpened steel blades underfoot; exposed chain drive beneath the groin; whirling circular saw of death thing at a thorax-opening position in front; remote control.

But did someone actually build and use one of these things? And if so, can we replace the blades with wheels and the whirling circular saw of death thing with, say, a rubber wheel or a track? If we had to guess, we’d say that “gazoline” suggests IC power, but that sure looks like a battery in the front one; maybe the fairing on the other’s hiding a little two-stroke?