Didnt they just leave those things out in the middle of no-where in the arctic circle? Or am i thinking about another thing like that?

Yeah i was thinking about the LCC-1 Army Sno-train >~<

I think they did leave this behind as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antar.....and_final_fate

Thats depressing...

Actually this little toy makes an appearance in Clive Cussler's 'Atlantis Found'

Who has time to read anymore!? X3

find an audio book version

twas a joke~

Not read that one, but given Cussler's fascination with old and obscure cars and other vehicles, I can't say I am at all surprised.

I can say other than his Fargo series I've read everything else and look forward to new releases

It's a good read.

I thought Simon Cowell had the ultimate RV?

Not really, the ultimate RV should probably have radiators that don't overheat the engines by just dumping heat into the engine room, and be able to move.

It's a neat one-off though, and I think something could have been developed from it.

The title of ultimate rv belongs to the UAV from Stripes.

I'm partial to the cross-apocolypse roller Hell Tanner drove in Damnation Alley, myself!

The Landmaster from the movie or 'The Car' as it was called in the book?

I was thinking of the movie version. The novella is way better than the movie, but that was a neat-looking vehicle.

This with a scaled up semi trailer. Or two...

This is one of the earliest low-ground-pressure vehicles, innit?

That's amazing!

I've taken some recent interest in Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic Expedition in late 1930s after reading about the event in the Time Life Nature series book on The Poles as a youngster in the late 1960s. In the book it was mentioned that "Operation Deep Freeze" hosted by the US Navy in 1955 hoped to re-trace Admiral Byrd's venture onto the Antarctic to photograph and recover any artifacts left behind from that exploration attempt. I recall reading somewhere that it was mentioned the 1939 Snow Cruiser "Penguin 1" was found intact, and according to one report "Needing a little air in the tires and maintenance on the engines to be drive-able again." Unfortunately, any further information on the fate of the vehicle is not available, or shrouded in controversy. Some say it's still buried in the snow where it was abandoned, while another report says it was salvaged by Russian explorers.

So why ain't it in a Museum or somethin' Eh?

The biggest issue is cost not to mention finding it. Apparently there was interest in recovering it once but other event took the funds set aside for its recovery..

Well, the reason it was abandoned was that it basically didn't work. So unless you were going to put it in a Museum of Poorly-Thought Out Ideas...

Also, it's probably at the bottom of the ocean now.

Smooth tires.... In snow.... What were they thinking?

You'd think they would have tested it some place less remote, and it's not like the folks at LeTourneau weren't familiar with making vehicles to work in rough conditions. A pretty big oversight.

Newtons Lemon, but at least this failure was privately funded. I might add this pile of junk broke down on its way through Lima Ohio in the summer