Many survivalists think they can handle anything that comes their way when doomsday arrives, but the truth is there is a lot more to surviving that stockpiling the best food, making sure you have enough water and supplies and having the perfect survival bag.
It's also vital you have a plan in place so that you can travel from point A to point B when SHTF.
Even if you don't have a bug out location all setup, it's still a good idea to have a rugged vehicle you can count on during a SHTF moment. If you think about it, when the grocery stores have been wiped clean, and the police are no longer at their stations, you're the one who will need to stop criminals from discovering where you're hiding out.
Keep in mind that a rugged SHTF vehicle should be designed for fuel efficiency and keeping you safe, not just reliability.
Taking that into account, that means that today's cars just won't cut the mustard when it comes having the vital transportation you need to stay alive.
To stay alive when SHTF, after the break check out some reliable bug out vehicles that'll keep you safe when it's time to get out of dodge!
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Actually , “IF” and EMP burst hits with enough intensity to make the engine stall , all I’d have to do is stop the vehicle and restart the engine.
Todays electric controls on vehicles is actually shielded well enough to survive such en event.
Mine also has a mechanical fuel pump mounted at the front of the engine.No worries there either about burning out the pump in the tank of a fuel injected vehicle as mine has none of that.
I also have a second ignition box mounted under the hood of my truck.
If one fails , I just swap the connectors around and I’m good to go again.
I set it up this way on purpose.
bicycles….have done hundreds of miles on them,don’t have to be super human to do it.
Horse and wagon, there won`t be any gas.
VW BUG for buggin out! ’74 or older. Don’t break, can find parts easy, couple mud and snows on rear, light if you do get stuck.
wow. Im impressed. The person that wrote this was for once, not a flaming idiot.
Had one just like the picture with the blue Toyota.
Never a ford. Every Ford I have ever owned in my life broke down or little things went wrong constantly.
Convert it to propane and it will be perfect. Drive right by the panicked Liberals at the gas station.
Buy a Henry Backpacker, plenty of .22 ammo and make these the single heaviest things you carry with you. A good pair of workboots and a little outdoor savvy might more nearly save your life than a noisy junky old vehicle. An “emp” has never been tried and no one dares because the missile tracking systems will likely survive it, and the ones coming back to them won’t be aiming at their power lines. Most of these are hoaxes, be prepaired and don’t panic. Even if everything goes down, most will be back up and running in 24 hours. Don’t leave out American innovation and ingenuity…
All these vehicles are worthless, fuel will be nearly impossible to get and others more likely to kill you for it
now there are 2 things u did not concidder… 1 fuel…. no fuel =no go…. 2 attack… if yours runs and someone elses doesent you are a target …
over all id say for a long term solution a mule would be the best
Another mouth to feed plus just as likely to be a target for this mode of transportation as well.
David A. Campbell well I was thinkin of traveling through woods and usualy doing it in early morning…. go 25 ish miles, n find a place to bed down for the day…get up at 2 am ..travel till 7 or 8 ish
I’ve had brakes fail on a Toyota like that , lucky I didn’t kill people in the intersection .
Here’s mine.
Can eat a donkey too
… Sometimes somebody has to eat…..
And if ya dont eat donkey, it would make bait for say a bear or something maybe even a mountain lion….
if it really gets bad the roads will become impassible due to bandits… fuel will be either gone or unusable…. modern horses are so inbred they are tempermental creatures… require a special diet and shoes neither of wish will be available
One of these is good to have
i think you mean, ‘ 10 vehicles that will certainly let you down … ‘ because gas goes bad after 3 months. I doubt you’re going to find anyone making gas & willing to give you any after the collapse.
Mine
Can never go wrong with horses.
There is generally fuel everywhere for them and their waste can be used to start a fire… a smelly fire but as long as your warm who cares.
I had an 85 K20 Suburban with the 6.2l Diesel in it.
The only problems I had with it was the 12 volt starter and batteries. I couldn’t keep one in it for more than a year. If I had converted it to a 24 volt starter and put some good deep cycle batteries in it, it would have lasted forever. Hell it almost never let me down and would pull almost anything I hooked up to, including a 53 foot Semi with a fully loaded trailer. Sure it was in 4 Wheel low but I did pull it.
There are ways to preserve gasoline for Probably a maximum of a year with the right temperatures, containers, and stabilizers. But like you said, it will almost always go bad after around 3 months if not used. And most people won’t store enough gasoline to drive around or even fill a tank.
Diesel on the other hand lasts quite a bit longer, around a year without treatment if in a waterproof container.
Diesel vehicles will be key after the SHTF, mostly because even if you cannot get Diesel fuel you can make bio-diesel from Corn oil, Soybean oil, hemp oil, and others. You can even make a refinery in your own garage.
Loved these while I was in the Army. Sadly only got to play with one a couple times.
Small suggestion, make yourself a bio-diesel refinery and start saving money on fuel. You can even learn how to make your own “vegetable” oils and then convert them directly to bio-diesel. You will get all the same power out of bio-diesel and you do any other type.
There’s a couple here. Sure they would part ways
What about a Landy from the 60s or 70’s??
Atf don’t go bad that’s all the hints you get
Kyle Leong ATF as in Automatic Transmission Fluid?
Yep
Kyle Leong Then you would be mistaken. ATF does break down after about 100,000 miles. It burns up, and loses it’s ability to function. If you don’t keep it clean with a semi regular$#%&!@*filter change it will get too dirty to function. (About every 30 -40,000 miles.) Overall if you take care of it it will do it’s job, but the chemicals in it will burn up or get used up. Adding an additive to the ATF every so often can help lengthen the life of it, but over all it will need to be changed. If it’s got a burnt smell, looks brown/ black, has too much black powder in it, etc then it might be about time to change it.
You missed my point I ment it as a fuel for storage used some 30 year old in my 6.2 And ran fine
Always buy a stick . Never buy an 05 or newer Toyota Tacoma . Mine was 36k of$#%&!@*and set me back another 5yrs
Also one that if you need spares there are a few that will be dead somewhere.. We pulled out parts from a car in an old creek bed to get the working one on its way home, Have tools..
and they taste good when you need it..
Billy Barrow isn’t that your truck on the cover?
Haha funny thing is..mine is in the shop right now
For some reason, I can’t seem to get to this site. But I am a VW girl, and they can run forever!!
I think the early dodge Cummings with 12 valve and a manual trans. rpm safe. Vary dependable. Would be my first choice.
Brady Rochefort
James Owenby
Jared Leavitt this looks like your old car!
Dude exactly the same!!!
Just one thing to remember; never choose a Chrysler product as your bug out vehicle.
1st generation 5.9 cummins diesel is my first choice
Will stick with my 2002 f350 diesel do agree with the 70s pickup. Wanted to put a diesel in my 79 f150 but sold it.
Anything Subaru. I’m a fan.
Is there a Mopar under that hood?
Got one