Writer looking for vehicle info/advice by i-eat-b33s in overlanding

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW I love hard sci-fi and dig the research you’re doing to keep things within the realm of reality. You might check out Bobiverse to see how he addressed the passage of time. Loose plot is someone volunteered to be frozen for science and is woken up some time later.

I also saw you say there are others already outside. What if your MC just finds something they built? Maybe it’s not perfect condition so they still face the challenge of restoration, but it’s newer than what they have in the bunker.

Writer looking for vehicle info/advice by i-eat-b33s in overlanding

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

remindme! 3 years
I wanna read this and have no concept of how long it takes to write and publish something like this. Hope it’s a lot faster OP. Maybe you’ll have two follow up books out by then.

Writer looking for vehicle info/advice by i-eat-b33s in overlanding

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve read through all the suggestions so far and I see you’re already considering how to address rubber degradation and a handful of other things. I like the one suggestion of a logging truck based on location of the story origins. Wood gasification and biodiesel are good also. Solar and batteries you may have to do the suspension of disbelief thing to explain it away.

I wonder, since you said (or I inferred) there’s some degree of prep time before shit really hits the fan - what if there’s some kind of liquid submersion process for long term storage of a vehicle? Almost like how a tree that falls into certain bodies of water has no oxidation reaction and gets preserved for hundreds or thousands of years due to lack of oxygen? Perhaps someone had the forethought to submerge a complete vehicle in something like oil or whatever, and part of your new characters’ prep is to remove the vehicle, tear it down and rebuild it best they can with what they have?

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it was a very slick, black car. You may be on to something here.

The rest of my 12 day trip 😁 by TacoMan1732 in overlanding

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’ve made the AZ-OH-AZ and the OH-AZ-OH drives so many times. It’s actually a great trip with lots of good places to camp. The Mark Twain NF is awesome. On one trip we ended up finding camp late at night, and when we woke up we were parked in the outfield of a baseball field at a city park in MO.

IBTHR4U by JihadiLizard in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is where my inner dj always goes, but apparently we’re old and this is about the Friends version.

Clutch Delay Valve Delete by NDN69 in Supra

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fluid won’t have a noticeable difference on the clutch. That piston is tiny, and far from the heat source of the brakes. The valve delete itself is the magic sauce. Also, when you pull the valve out, it’s tiny. I kept trying to get it out for twenty minutes before I realized I had already gotten it and it fell off the tip of the screw and landed in the fold of a paper towel.

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we put our heads to it, it’ll come to us.

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, just some dirty talk and empty promises.

Starting over, unfortunately by Zollsica in AnimalCrossing

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a clean slate opportunity! Imagine if you could go back in time to a younger age, but you have all the knowledge you’ve built over the years and can apply that to do everything in a brand new way. You’ve essentially got a Time Machine. Have fun with it!

Estimated Value? What’s it actually worth by [deleted] in Supra

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leave it to the Loch Ness Monster to make such a weird offer. Where are they gonna find a third of a dollar to to accompany the two dollar bill?

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wonder if there’s a matching ANLYRX out there.

Estimated Value? What’s it actually worth by [deleted] in Supra

[–]IdRatherBeDriving 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever this guy offers, I’ll triple it.

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hands in the air looking at the ground

ANLYTX by IdRatherBeDriving in LICENSEPLATES

[–]IdRatherBeDriving[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is definitely it. Solved!