This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or later the old stuff should reappear at omeyer.gmxhome.de Onno Meyer, 2008-07-14
Standard-class 1-ton Range Truck v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5) Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer During the Long Night, the planet Sonthert lost most technology. Only a few motor vehicles are produced each year, and what is called a Range Truck is in fact a luxury touring car, not an off-road pickup truck. The Standard has an open body with two seats in front and two benches in the rear, facing each other and with enough space for a map table or standing dignitaries on a parade. A large and crude six-cylinder petrol engine is hidden behind fine wood paneling and leather upholstery. The Standard Range Truck can carry a fair amount of luggage and even tow a trailer for long inspection tours. At travel speed, the engine burns 7.5 gallons of gasoline per hour. A full load of fuel is $15. Subassemblies: Body +4, six Heavy Wheels +1. Powertrain: 125-kW wheeled drivetrain; 125-kW gasoline engine; 4,000-kWs lead-acid battery. Fuel: 50 gallons gasoline (fire on 12). Occ: 1 XRCS, 5 XRS. Cargo: 25 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Wheels: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment Body: Luxury interior. External: Convertible ragtop; hitch. Statistics Size: 18'x8'x6' Payload: 1 ton Lwt.: 5 tons Volume: 500 cf Maint.: 92 hours Price: $47,450 HT: 8. HPs: 300 Body, 38 each Wheel gSpeed: 60 gAccel: 4 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.75 gSR: 4 Ground Pressure High. Off-Road Speed 1/6. Design Notes Body is 400 cf. Wheels are 100 cf (increased volume). Structure is light and expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Mechanical controls. 113.7 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 8,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, Dec 2004 errata], Vehicles Lite, VXi and VXii (armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller background affects the design decisions, not the technology. Next Week: A kind of oversized bike. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
