THE ULTIMATE END-OF-THE-WORLD BUG-OUT BUGGY

BY WILL DABBS, MD

The Personal Survival Vehicle from Lucky Gunner Garage is purpose-designed to take you and your family halfway across the country in comfort and safety without resupply.

The ideal doomsday bug-out vehicle needs to be powerful, agile and bulletproof. It ought to tote a family of four along with their food, water, support gear and hound halfway across the country without resupply. It should be comfortable but still look really, really scary.

Gus Johnson lived out of a Humvee for weeks on end as a Marine machine gunner in Iraq and Afghanistan. Johnson and his team normally custom-build hot rods and rock crawlers. When he set out to craft the ultimate end-of-theworld bug-out truck, the result was simply epic.

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One minute it was all social media, Google Maps, Uber, and Yelp. The next, everything was dark. Cell phones and TVs wouldn’t work, and the power was out. The Lexus was deader than Hitler’s soul.

Thankfully, it was a Saturday, and the kids were home. School is eight miles away. That would have been bad.

The fi rst few hours were kind of novel. Then the sun went down. They could see fl ames in the direction of the city and heard sporadic gunshots. The faint sound of a woman’s screams wafted in with the breeze. That was it. They had to leave.

He had been a systems engineer for a big defense fi rm before hanging out his own shingle. Now his modest company gave him the resources to indulge his vaguely paranoid streak. His wife tolerated it so long as she had her trinkets, too.

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Specifications

• Overall length: 194 inches

• Width: 87 1/2 inches

• Height: 88 inches (without roof rack and accessories and with 46-inch tires)

• Wheelbase: 144 inches (with 46-inch tires)

• Weight: 12,500 pounds (wet)

• Fuel Capacity: Two 40-gallon fuel cells