If you’re in the market for an amphibious, 6×6 off-roader, have a look at this mid-60s Alvis Stalwart. It features a 220-hp straight-eight Rolls-Royce engine, a 25,000-lb. winch, and a 12,000-lb. boom in the bed.
A few caveats before you grab your checkbook: The only way to get into this thing is through the hatches on the roof. It’s lack of a center differential means you can’t drive it on the road without destroying the transmission. And, of course, it’s British, so watch the electrics.
Another note of caution: some of these trucks had all of their swim gear removed in the 80s, while still in military service. Finding parts to rebuild those systems… let’s just say that Alvis never had much of a US dealer network.
That said, if you want a truly go-anywhere vehicle, and have the technical and financial resources to keep this 50-year-old beast running, it could be the vehicle for you.
This Alvis Stalwart is located in Puyallup, Washington, near Seattle, with an $8500 asking price.
A video about the Alvis and more pictures after the jump.
Links:
Bring a Trailer post
Craigslist ad
4wd Online, Alvis article
Does this guy actually know what hes talking about ? It can be driven on the road,just look at pictures of the British army when they were in Germany during the 70’s and 80’s. They drove all over Germany on the ROADS .The electrics are British ???? the electrics in all vehicles are the same anywhere in the world.
Yes, there may well be lots of pictures of Stollies driving along the road. But just because you haven’t seen any pictures of them back in the workshop having the bevel gearboxes being replaced because of the transmission windup experienced by H-Drive vehicles doesn’t mean they didn’t break!
The army used to drive them over railway sleepers kept in the back to allow the axles to come up off the road to allow the axles to unwind.
You often see them now with bars painted on the wheel hubs to show if an axles is ‘wound up’.
Do a bit of research to learn more about them…
It can be driven anywhere, 45 MPH forward or backwards.
Yes the stolly would drive on roads perfectly well, but much better cross country never had many problems with the electrics they were fun to drive I was in as stalwart troop in the army for 3 years and enjoyed every minute of it
‘Perfectly well’?
In Northern Ireland, they used to bounce the Saracens up and down curbs to relieve the axle windup to prevent breakage!
The Saracen is a Stalwart underneath, just with a different top half…