Long Range Desert Group Expedition 2012
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Back in 2012 a group of us took two 1943 jeeps on a most ambitious trip following routes used by The Long Range Desert Group in World War 2. Leaving Cairo, Egypt, we headed southwest on 'Blacktop' to Baharia, then covered 1200 miles of desert as far south as The Gilf el Kebir, then back north through The Great Sand Sea to Siwa and on to Alexandria. It was a fantastic trip that will probably never be attempted again due to internal hostilities in the area of desert we negotiated.
I’m not surprised at all Pewe found his way on this adventure.
This is probably the best 8 minute show on UA-cam right now.. Awesome adventure!
Hey thanks!! Really appreciate your feedback 👍
Great video, just watched "Popski's lost patrol" and this was a great follow up. Love the sandblasted vehicle remains still out there.
Thanks! Most kind. Yes. I watched the lost patrol one as well. I know these guys and they are a good bunch. Cheers!
I remember reading your account abou this trip so now seeing this blog brings it home more. It shows what the members of LRDG had to go through, such bravery.
Thank you Roger. Yes. The trip certainly gave us a 'real' experience of what they endured, and we had it easy!
I own an all original 1943 Willys here in the Philippines! I drive it daily so love to see other pushing these jeeps! great stuff guys
Seeing all the old kit laying sandblasted yet preserved was thrilling. I still have my all original 1956 Willys CJ5 with its F-head 134 engine and N90 3-speed gearbox. It's a treat to drive.
Thank you for your kind comments. I intend to do another film. Just about the trucks sometime soon. Enjoy your Jeep!
Excellent video, and wonderful effort. Thanks. My Dad was in the British Army in WW2 and claimed to have seen the LRDG when stationed in and around Cairo so the LRDG has been an interest of mine for over 60 yrs. disappointed you didn’t use a Bagnold Sun Compass though!! Les in UK
Thanks Les. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Brilliant video! Chloe sent me here. Glad I came!
Thanks Jay! There will be more 🙂
What an adventure. I owned a Ford GPW many moons ago. Now I have several vehicles I hope to rebuild.
Thanks Andrew. Good luck with the rebuilds.
Congratulation to the Knights of the Desert! Like than the Operation Salam.👍
Having driven a GPW a few times I remember going into a corner maybe a little bit quicker than the Jeep would like and had to take two bites at the corner so as not to roll over in a soft top with no roll bar, I then remember saying to my Co Pilot at the time I have a new found respect for the "Rat Patrol" a TV series based loosly on the SAS in the North African campaign.
Well done this was a great follow up to find after watching Popski's Lost Patrol.
Much as I would love a WW2 Jeep my favorite would be an Ex Australian Army Haflinger, Both these days have become somewhat expensive but not quite as up there as it seems Series Land Rovers have become, Should have kept mhe 86 inch series one I had , I would happily settle for a Light weight but they are few and far between in Australia and it seems like early Jaguars out here that old Landy's are being exported back to Blighty because our conditions seem kinder to older vehicles because we do not salt the roads for winter.
At least we have some good people out here that can help with resoration work, We even have somebody that was smart enough during the shutdown of Leyland Australia to realise what something was and buy it at Auction.
He now is one of the very few people in the World capable of making the old style cloth covered wiring looms.
Then there is the Family Business in South Australia that bought all the spares, Tooling and rights that specialise in old Bedford Trucks that supply worldwide and yet another specialist in the Southern Highlands south of Sydney at Mittagong who only works on Coventry Climax Engines that get sent for repair and overhaul from across the world
Thank you for your kind comments Stephen. Well done for keeping your jeep on four wheels! We would all love a Hafi, but here, as there,, they are crazy money. I am lucky to have kept hold of my 1948 Land Rover that I bought back in 1974! And it still works. All the best, Toby
As the owner of a ‘44 GPW which a mate and I restored from the chassis up I salute you and the team. Congratulations from Tasmania (Australia)
Thank you very much Andrew!
What a great project and wonderful adventure. Congratulations!
Thanks! I assure you, it was great fun!
Marvelous journey. I watch Ryan McBeth's UA-cam channel about all-things-about-war, and was worried you might encounter unexploded land mines in your travels. McBeth was stationed with the US army in Egypt and said they weren't allowed into the open desert due to UXO from WW2 and more recent conflicts. The old wrecks you found are incredible - thanks for the vicarious thrill.
Thanks Eric! Very nice of you to comment. Thankfully no UXO on those trails. I've had issues over in the West, but that was from the much later conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara. :-(
Cool vid , I had a 101 one tonne years ago and loved it also used to drive dawn courus my mates willys jeep ,great times in the 90s 👍
I loved the 101. It had a 300 tdi and big AliSport intercooler. 👍
Why have I only just found this video, brilliant trip.
Thanks! It was 😃😎
Fantastic adventure, I would have loved every minute of it!
Thanks Paul, You will be pleased to hear that we all enjoyed it, and even 11 years later talk about it being the best trip ever! It its sad that since then it has not been possible to visit that area with such freedom....
Very cool! Great expedition and adventure!! I’ve had Pusser’s Rum, very stout indeed! Cheers!!
Thank you for your kind comment! When enjoying our Pusser's we made noises like Pirates! Aarrrrrh!
0:08 first group of SAS during WWII.
WHO DARES WINS! 💯💪
Is that Rick Pewe? How am I not surprised that he was involved in this whole deal? 😂😂
Rick was the first to say 'Count me in'!
Brilliant Toby
Thanks Chloe!
Great video, thank you for sharing.
Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great video
I am sorry I missed two actually try and go on this trip, I looks like it was enjoyable
It was fun. Sorry you missed it
That looked like great fun. But you really need to stick a couple of Vickers K guns on there. I would have loved to do that complete with nothing but WW2 technology and food etc. And where was your sun compass??
Thank you for your comment. Yes. It was great fun. It would’ve been nice to have a pair of Vickers guns, but they may have arouse suspicion at Alexandra docks! Sun compass, too expensive! All the best
That was incredible
Thanks Bruce!
My Grandfather was LRDG in G patrol captured december 1941. R.I.P Mac.
Heroes!
Great Video but way too short you could have done 2 hours and I would have smiled the whole time!
Most kind. Thank you 👍
Love this great work
Thanks Gareth. Your comment is much appreciated!
I remember reading about this in one of the 4x4 magazines.
Thanks Barry. Yes. It was in a few. I wrote it up for the UK 4x4 Magazine. Cheers!
Such a cool trip 👍🇨🇦🍻
Brilliant
Thanks!
Great video Subscribed
Thanks very much Graham. There is more LRDG stuff to come when I have a moment.
@@ishouldbebackonthe10th52 Look forward to it.
Never expected to see pewe in this video.
A top team member 👍
👍nice
I’ve watched this a few times but am just now noticing the TEC flag at 4:22, was this a flagged expedition? And, if so would love to read the report!
Hi Juard. Yes. This was an Explorers Club flagged event. I’m not a member but Bob Atwater may be able the help. Cheers Toby
oh a 101 my dream motor 😮
Wish I’d kept it! 300tdi with big AliSport Intercooler and a rusted up waistegate. Went like stink!
@@tobysavage nice I've always wanted to fit a td5 engine into a 101. I seen on in the flesh a few years back and immediately wanted to stop my d2 pickup build in its tracks scrap the body and cab and do a forward control build on the chassis. I didn't know a 101 could carry so much weight a he jeep in the back woe
@@markkiely8326 Mate - with one jeep in the back and the second on the trailer we pulled a sat nav confirmed 63mph on a clear flat stretch of A14. Must have been close on four tons! #Rocking
I believe both Willys and Ford were made to the same plans and spec.
How would somebody know which is which.. if they were parked next to each other.?
Is it down to the serial number.. or maker's badge.?
Certain bits are made different on either jeep. Tool box lids in the rear fenders, frame brace under the radiator, and the name WILLYS or FORD stamped into the rear panel on the left side, later Ford GPWs omitted the FORD stamp on the panel, but it's easy to tell one make of "jeep" from the other by certain details.
Ford put FoMoCo on darn near every thing including bolt heads. So its not to difficult to differentiate between the two. Plus subtle differences in things like the top tank of the radiator design.
Why are the Grlls cut out ???
They did that. Opinion is divided. Extra cooling? Or to scoop soft sand out after a sand storm? These both had repro grilles so we didn’t chop the original ones 😉
Excellent,wish I never sold my 1942 GPW.Where can I get that MB t shirt?
Thanks Ian. I sold both of these shortly after returning. Had to pay off a few debts! Can't believe I was actually the owner of TWO 1943 jeeps!!!
Any idea where that MB t shirt came from?
@@ianbusby2845 Ahah! That’s Rick Pewe. American jeep legend. It would probably have been a freebie. Sorry. Can’t help you there.
o you smart MF in time
The actual LRDG did not use jeeps. They used cut down 30cwt Chevrolet trucks seconded from the Egyptian Police. They were recce units only and did not go on raids. Jeeps were used later by David Stirling, and his group later called the SAS. The LRDG were their support for logistics and comms only. Get it right.
The LRDG did use jeeps when they became available. What a pompous comment!
Don't be a Steve, Steve.... Ffs.....🦂🇿🇦🦂
@@tobysavage It isn't a pompous comment, but an accurate one. The SAS were the first of the two to use the Jeep, as they were the first of the two to use the Vickers MG. Read the 'Phantom Major',a book release in the fifties with an excellent and well-supported accounting. It is also interesting to point out that some of the stock footage used here is of the SAS and not the LRDG.
@@geographyinaction7814 We did the trip. You didn’t. It was fun and we know it was not strictly accurate, but so what? It never aimed to be and was never promoted as 100% historically accurate. To do it in Chevies would have been impossible. And LRDG did use jeeps. Unarmed like ours.
Sorry to be arsy, but the fact is we covered 1200 desert miles in two 1943 jeeps that had not been done since WW2 and will probably not be done again. Having achieved that, we feel justifiably proud and, frankly couldn’t give a damn about who originally used jeeps and what guns were fitted. Over and out brothers.
No commentary at all on the vehicles that you came across 🙄
True. I plan to make a more detailed film about the trucks. I have masses of material, but need to do some thorough research to get the facts right.
Lewis guns…You gotta have Lewis guns!
If only. May have raised a few eyebrows at the Customs shed in Alexandria!
One can never escape the annoying background 'music' !😢
Sorry it is not to your liking.
Rick is responsible for spreading the gpw infection to me. I forgive him.