By Antti Kautonen 
Welcome to the second installment of this weekend’s Weekend Edition. In the previous post, you got to see a 1995 HMMWV put up for sale after the Norwegian Army was done with it. That’s all fine and dandy, but what if your summer/winter cottage isn’t really reachable by anything you could call a road? That’s when you need a Hägglunds Beltevogn BV206, like this one right here.
It’s ex-Forsvaret, too, and you can get it if you act in ten days.
Here it is, in all its tracked glory. The articulated all-terrain carrier consists of two units, with all four tracks powered. It can carry up to 17 people (6 in the front compartment, 11 in the rear), so you can host a damned good cottage weekend if you pack it all up with people and supplies.
Supplies.
This is where said supplies, or people go. Doesn’t it look cozy in there?
This is where you’re going to sit. Just twirl the steering wheel’s knob and step on the loud pedal, something is going to happen.
The engine in these is the 2.8-litre Ford Cologne V6, so if you have a Merkur Scorpio, you can sacrifice it for parts to keep this running. Or the other way around, whichever you prefer.
Look! Only 13 500 mossy, snowy, Norwegian kilometres. By the way, this is what the Norwegian Army looks like:
[youtube width=”720″ height=”540″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpEnLtqUDg[/youtube]
Efficient, isn’t it?
The Hägglunds Beltevogn is for sale over at Retrade.no, and the highest bid right now is 74 000 NOK or 13 370 USD. Feel free to bid.
[Source: Retrade]
Bradley Brownell
The cargo / troop carrying compartment looks rather like a sauna. Very Scandinavian.
Needs more Cummins 4bt.
They can have a Mercedes diesel, it seems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYm5USbSt8c
Mmmm… snowcat.
This has to be,surely, the most appropriate postzombie apocalypse vehicle possible. Remember, they can only walk.
You'll need it when the zombi Nazis come:
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Ha, what film is that from?
It's a Norwegian film called Dead Snow (Dod Sno).
Worked in Antarctica in 2011/12 and got to ride in a few. One thing this article doesn't mention is that the Hägglund is amphibious. Yesssss, you can drive that whole thing straight into a lake and keep on trucking without blinking an eye. The tracks provide the propulsion. They're loud and painfully slow, but probably my favorite vehicle down on the ice. The Search and Rescue team has one with radar mounted on the roof so they can find people in white out conditions.
The ridiculous vehicle quotient in Antarctica is off the scales. Deltas, Terrabuses, Mattracks, Haggalunds, Pisten Bullys, Sno-Cats, LC-130s, DC-3s on skiis,
Wow I knew the 202 was, that's great and thanks! Do you have any really neat stories to share? [youtube MYWmzlGuesc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWmzlGuesc youtube]
Nice! I was there as a scientist in 2005. I only got to see McMurdo, and for just a few days at that. I missed out on seeing a lot of the really odd stuff. I did get to ride in a Bv206 over sea ice to get out to the Palmer.
I live in coastal Florida. Seems practical enough to DD. Hey- it's Florida. Nothing is considered weird if you live here.
Dollar for dollar that is one of the best buys I have seen in a long time.Very good for our Northern Michigan winters.
Damn it, stop tempting me. That price is too easy to fall for, even with shipping.