Engine Punk

I'm curiously tempted Or it could be a UAZ-3303, a UAZ-3741, a UAZ-4909 Farmer, a UAZ-39094 or a UAZ-39265. It could even be an SBA-2M-1S with armoured protection. I’ll try to explain. The UAZ-2206 is a sexed up version of the venerable UAZ-452, Russia's interpretation of a four-wheel-drive Ford Transit. The most noticeable difference is the revised front-end styling and the addition of a “kengurin.” I can't be sure but I'm fairly certain that a “kengurin” is the Russian equivalent of a roo bar. Roo bars were originally an Australian invention designed to keep kangaroos from spoiling the paintwork of your and yer mate’s utes down under, kangaroos have notoriously poor traffic sense. Obviously kangaroos are not much of a problem in Outer Mongolia but there's probably plenty of other big wild things that could damage the front of your UAZ. Peter Tuthill has sent me a copy of the UAZ-2206 brochure and although I don't speak or read Russian, I found it ext...

It was on the last day of a practice expedition for my Duke of Edinburgh award. I'd been out on Dartmoor for four days camping with my school friends when we began to make our way into Princetown. There was a tremendous sense of returning to civilisation. We'd been camping out in tents and had carried everything with us. At one stage something big came for our rubbish bag tucked under the flysheet of our tent and Hoppy Hopwood swore blind it was an ocelot. The Beast of Bodmin Moor was in the news even then - except this was Dartmoor. We probably smelt a bit and were a little foot sore but the sense of camaraderie was great. We'd not heard any radio let alone any TV, which was rare for a bunch of teenage boys, so felt completely cut off from the news and world events.  This is what I saw in Princetown in the late 70s - a Russian-built UAZ 4x4 truck (Photo Olyslager Organisation) As we tramped across the moors, we began to catch glimpses of little 4x4 pick up trucks...