Polar explorers

above from http://lecontainer.blogspot.com/

Above image via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

Above images http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229248&showall=1 which stangely, I posted about years ago... and that thread on the Jalopy Journal is still being added to

Above: the 1939 Sno Cruiser

For more on the Tucker Sno-Cats: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tucker-snow-cat-pioneering-vehicle-of.html

Above: the Terrabus

For more see: http://www.provehicles.co.uk/top-13-polar-super-vehicles-from-antarctic/ and http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/07/more-tucker-sno-cat-websites-d.html

Tucker Snow Cat, the pioneering vehicle of the Trans Antarctic Expedition

Not exactly the same model as the one in the publicity shot below

For a you tube video of some in action in the Antarctic, crossing and getting stuck in the crevass... and how they got out of it, see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/trans-antarctic-expedition-getting.html

Trans Antarctic Expedition, getting stuck a 1/2 a world away from a tow truck, 1/2 way across a ice crevass. Look impossible to do anything about?

This 1955 Tucker Sno-Cat Type 743 Double Drive is in a bad way, half way across that crevass, and you'd think there is no way to save it from falling in, if any attempt at pulling it out were undertaken. This video shows how it was done... maybe not for this sno-cat, but one in a similar predicament.

Video via: http://stipistop.com/

For photos I took of one up close: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tucker-snow-cat-pioneering-vehicle-of.html