My Dream Machine

I saw this link over at the Marmot’s Hole and I have to say this is one cool ride:

Compare this to the standard military model:

This is one pimpin ride.  Take a look at the interior:

Here is how this ride is described:

This vehicle was made from Russian “BRDM”, if to translate literally it is “Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle”, armored scout car made in Russia.

There were plenty of such in Arabic countries like Iraq or Iran or Syria also.

But this is not a regular military vehicle. It was bought by a Moscow entrepreneur and was pimped up heavily.

First of all it is an amphibian vehicle – it can both move by roads and swim by rivers or lakes.

It is powered with V8 5.5 diesel engine  to carry its multi ton body across the Russian roads. It has four general wheels  but there are four more, hidden under its bottom, if somebody comes to a road like this he can push a button and use four additional wheels to make his road.

It has of course a multi speaker sound system, GPS navigation, TV, DVD and a periscope to see clearly what’s going on when you are swimming across the nearest lake. Also there is a sonar mounted with which the car owner can monitor the water under his so to say car. Night vision system is there too.

The car is fully registred in road inspection so the owner can drive across the normal roads, and then go to the lake for some fishing or water skiing, after that at night he can come to Moscow casino without visiting home.

I wonder if he has ever taken this thing on a lake and popped the turret hatch and went fishing?  Maybe Nomad could use one of these things? :)  Speaking of the turret I wonder if he has ever gone hunting with the standard 14.5mm KPV heavy machine gun or the smaller 7.62mm machine gun that is usually installed in a BRDM turret?  This is a redneck’s dream machine.

I wonder if some time in the future someone will be motivated to pimp out an American Stryker?